by Deep Green Resistance News Service | May 9, 2013 | Lobbying, Mining & Drilling, Protests & Symbolic Acts
By Rising Tide Chicago To the cheers and applause of the dozens of supporters below, anti-fracking activists unfurled a two-story banner with “Don’t Frack Illinois,” from the balcony of the state capitol rotunda. During impassioned testimony from...
by Deep Green Resistance News Service | May 4, 2012 | Agriculture, Toxification
By Pesticide Action Network Results released today from water sampling across four Midwestern states – Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota – indicate that the endocrine disrupting pesticide atrazine is still being found in drinking water at levels linked to birth...
by Deep Green Resistance News Service | Feb 29, 2012 | Lobbying, Toxification
By Jeff Biggers In a move that should electrify the clean energy movement across the country, the tireless champions with the Chicago Clean Power Coalition have announced that Midwest Generation, a subsidiary of multinational giant Edison International, will soon shut...
by Deep Green Resistance News Service | Feb 29, 2012 | Toxification
By Environment News Service The Union of Concerned Scientists has documented 15 “near-misses” at 13 U.S. nuclear plants during 2011 and evaluates the response of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to each event in a report released today. The second in an...
by Deep Green Resistance News Service | Feb 16, 2012 | Repression at Home
By Yana Kunichoff Each time a new measure that the city of Chicago is preparing for the coming NATO and G8 summits is unveiled, the tension in the city ratchets up a notch. The latest news comes in the form of reports that Chicago has purchased face shields, and may...
