50+ Groups Back Landmark Effort to Halt 'Out of Control' Factory Farming in Iowa

Common

Dreams

"Iowa is suffering under the enormous weight of a business that has no respect for the people, environment, animals and future of the state." Story here.

RELATED: "In Hogs We Trust." 

Part #1 How the Manitoba government’s return to a deregulated hog industry could actually aggravate a world health crisis.

Part #2 The Price We Pay For Corporate Hog$

Part#3 "Animal diseases devastate herds, worldwide."

If the world builds every coal plant that’s planned, climate change goals are doomed, scientists say

The Washington Post

The much-heralded demise of the coal industry may be overstated, a new scientific analysis asserts — finding that if all planned plants were constructed, the world would have little chance of meeting its climate change goals. Story here.

Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant, 

central Wyoming Greg Goebel from 

Loveland CO, USA