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Lake with dormant volcano, Sajama National Park

Gorgon National Park.

Humphead (or Napoleon, or Maori ) wrasse

Arches National Park. The development would have had severe impacts on wildlife, rivers and streams, cultural resources, and air quality in some of Utah's most spectacular places.

A new report from The Oakland Institute, in collaboration with Greenpeace International, exposes how a New York-based agri-corporation, Herakles Farms, and its local subsidiary SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), are involved in a land deal that is questionable under Cameroonian Law, opposed by locals since 2010 and has just pulled out of the industry’s sustainable certification scheme .

The enormous sludge ponds at Colstrip were built in the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, and contamination from the leaking ponds, which cover more than 500 acres, is well-documented.

New data released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reveal that 14.9 percent of American households —including one in six Americans—suffered from food insecurity in 2011. Food insecure households are those that struggle to put food on the table and often don’t know where their next meal will come from.