The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:

• Great Lakes action on nuclear reactor risks
• Activists halt operations at mountaintop removal coal mine
• Dow requests approval for GE soy resistant to 2,4-D
• EPA stalling on bee die-offs
• Pennsylvania to shut down one of biggest U.S. coal ash ponds
• Establishment of the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge
• U.S. clean-up of Agent Orange-contaminated Vietnam
• Hazards of “green” household cleaners
• Nigerian oil spill near Exxon operations
• Ukrainian environmentalist murdered

Though the U.S. contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population, it confines nearly 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Furthermore, as of 2008 it had 2.3 million in jails and prisons, according to the International Center for Prison Studies at King’s College, London.

Reducing the population in the Monroe County jail is the goal of a local, grassroots organization, Decarcerate Monroe County (DMC). In its own words, DMC “is a local coalition challenging the belief that cages, coercion and confinement keep our community safe. DMC believes people are safe when they have their basic needs met and when they feel empowered and free.”

Peace & Justice News is a collection of news items collected by Bloomington Alternative contributor Linda Greene. Today's edition includes:

• Global education strike planned for the fall
• Surveillance of citizens with automatic license plate recognition cameras
• Drone use inside the United States
• Feminist punk band Pussy Riot on trial in Russia
• Pfizer bribing foreign physicians to hike sales
• Cutting funding for nuclear weapons
• Cuba lifts ban on anti-Castro musicians on the radio
• Women farm workers win sexual harassment case
• British workers in solidarity with trade unionists in Turkey
• Expulsion from school for pregnancy

The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:

• ArcelorMittal agrees to clean up contaminated Lake Michigan site
• Latinos’ attitudes toward the environment
• Rainforest havens at risk
• Fracking: who’s in control?
• Texans poisoned by oil and gas facilities
• Utilities spend millions on attacking EPA action while deaths accumulate
• Murder of environmental activists
• Oil company threatens 284 remaining beluga whales
• Oil dispersants disrupt the ocean food chain

Peace & Justice News is a collection of news items collected by Bloomington Alternative contributor Linda Greene. Today's edition includes:

• Indiana’s Camp Atterbury one of 64 U.S. drone bases
• Vote for Hyatt as the country’s worst hotel employer
• Congressional opponents of women’s health attacking again
• Happy 50^th to Walmart
• Global elite evades taxes to the tune of $21 trillion
• Most minimum-wage workers at large, profitable companies
• New Israeli ship operates without people on board
• Petition demanding troop withdrawal from Afghanistan now
• Judge prevents closure of Mississippi’s last abortion clinic
• Activist arrested near White House for protesting hemp ban

In his state of the city address on Feb. 16, 2010, Bill Schmitt, mayor of the southern Indiana city of Jasper, addressed the topic of what to do with the city’s idle coal-fired power plant. One option, he said, according to the Dubois County Herald, would be to convert the plant to a “green-energy-producing facility.”

Little did anyone realize at the time that his comment would turn out to be an early salvo in what has become a bitter, protracted battle between the people of Jasper and their local government.

The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene. This week's edition includes:

• Push for high-speed rail in Indiana
• Earth First! temporarily halts fracking operation
• Fossil fuels draining water supply in middle of drought
• Four environmental victories in two weeks
• Victory for baby sea turtles in Puerto Rico
• Critical fight to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay wilderness
• Problem at California nuclear power plant is worse than originally thought
• Dirty Dozen, Clean 15 produce
• Big polluters opposing EPA’s regulations on soot
• Bureau of Land Management to safeguard public lands from fracking, with public pressure

Peace & Justice News is a collection of news items collected by Bloomington Alternative contributor Linda Greene. Today's edition includes:

• New national diners’ guide helps make wise restaurant choices
• Dell 20^th corporation to stop funding ALEC
• New Venezuelan laws give more power to communities
• TIAA-CREF divests from Caterpillar
• Increasing repression against Iranian labor rights activists
• Israeli 'refuser' on a hunger strike
• Philadelphia adopts resolution to redirect military spending to communities
• FDA helps companies exploit patients with Alzheimer’s
• Nonprofit organizations with ties to industry
• Congress poised to slash food stamps, program that helps minority family farmers

Peace & Justice News is a collection of news items collected by Bloomington Alternative contributor Linda Greene. Today's edition includes:

• Chinese labor leader Li Wangyang: suicide or murder?
• Antiwar feelings high among vets of recent wars
• Victory for reproductive justice in the House of Representatives
• U.S. military patrolling American streets
• A win for Brooklyn Bridge arrestees filing a class action suit
• Drones used over U.S. to be weaponized
• TIAA-CREF’s role in the Israeli occupation
• Working Families Party victorious in Oregon primary
• Lawsuit against State of California for use of solitary confinement
• Arson at Miami travel agency that arranges trips to Cuba

The Greene Report is a compilation of environmental stories written by Linda Greene for the Alternative and WFHB Community Radio's EcoReport. This week's edition includes

• Radiation released at Fukushima higher than originally reported
• Important Canadian environmental research center to close
• Watering your garden can be dangerous to your health
• Mega-sprawl “village” plan near wildlife refuge defeated
• Promising new chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Industry pays people to wear pro-coal t-shirts at EPA hearing
• Children protest fracking near their schools
• Stopping Shell from drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean
• Ohio set to beat Pennsylvania at passing a bad fracking law
• Halting uranium contamination of Navajo drinking water supplies

Read The Greene Report archive on The Bloomington Alternative.