Environmental groups launch education campaign against copper and nickel mining plans for NE Minn. - SteelGuru
27 May 2012, 11:11 pm
The Associated Press reported that Environmental groups launched a campaign to raise public awareness ahead of the summer vacation season about plans for copper and nickel mining in northeastern Minnesota. Conservation Minnesota, Friends of the Boundary ...

Southeast Roanoke neighborhood watch groups knit communities together - Roanoke Times
27 May 2012, 10:57 pm
Matt Henry sits in his front yard in Roanoke. Henry moved here in 2006 from Las Vegas and started the Star View Heights Neighborhood Watch with Roanoke's First Church of the Nazarene a couple of years later. Terry Huxhold began the Waverly Place ...

groups end talks with B.C.'s largest fish farm company - CTV
27 May 2012, 2:14 pm
A unique relationship meant to reduce conflict between environmental groups and British Columbia's largest salmon farming company has fallen apart. The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform and Marine Harvest Canada confirmed Saturday that the project ...

groups struggle to save Canada’s at-risk lighthouses - Globe and Mail
27 May 2012, 1:39 pm
For 35 years, Judy Dauphinee has looked out her window and onto one of the country’s most recognizable maritime icons. With her home resting on a crest of granite and grass at the water’s edge, the longtime resident of Peggy’s Cove has enjoyed its ...

groups try to protect 'maritime icons' as Ottawa gets out of lighthouse business - Winnipeg Free Press
27 May 2012, 1:10 pm
HALIFAX - For 35 years, Judy Dauphinee has looked out her window and onto one of the country's most recognizable maritime icons. With her home resting on a crest of granite and grass at the water's edge, the longtime resident of Peggy's Cove has enjoyed ...

groups toss around ideas to help keep Alabama ex-convicts from returning to prison - Everything Alabama Blog
27 May 2012, 1:03 pm
Giving special restricted driver's licenses to inmates leaving prison who have had their licenses revoked could help them remain out of trouble and out of prison, one north Alabama group suggests. "Without a driver's license, it's very difficult ...

groups sue over proposed NM coal mine expansion - YAHOO!
25 May 2012, 6:56 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Environmentalists are suing the federal government over approval of a permit that allows for expansion of a coal mine in northwestern New Mexico. The Western Environmental Law Center filed the suit Tuesday in federal ...

Student groups head to court to overthrow Bill 78 - edmonton.ctv.ca
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
MONTREAL — Protests against the Charest government are moving into the courtroom. On Friday the largest student groups filed motions against Bill 78, the emergency legislation passed last week after protesters stormed classrooms at UQAM. Lawyers say the ...

groups call for canal cost-benefit analysis despite AB 2421 defeat - AlterNet
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
After the failure of the Assembly Appropriations Committee to pass AB 2421 in Sacramento today, representatives of environmental and consumer groups reiterated their call for ran independent cost-benefit analysis before committing the public to ...

Microsoft-backed groups praise EU's antitrust ultimatum to Google - Computerworld
22 May 2012, 5:16 am
Computerworld - A pair of Microsoft-backed industry groups applauded the ultimatum European Union antitrust regulators issued to rival Google over alleged anti-competitive practices. The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) on Monday called the EU ...