by Ramsen Shamon & Mary Cirincione | Sep 19, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Chemical Safety Board will release a study in September with recommendations to combat a little-known frightening trend among young people during the last three decades: teens and young adults being killed or injured in explosions at...
by Ramsen Shamon & Mary Cirincione | Aug 25, 2011 | Topics
The past weekend, I covered an environmental protest at the White House. Activists were holding the first in a series of sit-ins to protest a proposed oil pipeline and were arrested for violating sidewalk traffic laws. I covered the event with live updates from the...
by Ramsen Shamon & Mary Cirincione | Aug 23, 2011 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON — Vermont environmentalist Bill McKibben and Vermont Law School professor Gus Speth were among 65 protesters arrested Saturday in front of the White House, where activists began a two-week demonstration against the proposed mining and transportation...
by Ramsen Shamon & Mary Cirincione | Aug 22, 2011 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON — On Saturday, 65 protesters holding a sit-in in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline outside the White House were arrested for violating sidewalk traffic laws. From Aug. 20 through Sept. 3, activists with the Tar Sands Action group will...
by Ramsen Shamon & Mary Cirincione | Aug 20, 2011 | Environment, Topics
2:45 p.m. update: WASHINGTON — The Tar Sands Action sit-in started at 11 a.m. today, with protesters who had volunteered to be arrested lining up and sitting on the sidewalk in front of the White House. Others protesters who had not signed up to be arrested...
