SIERRA CLUB is taking the touchy feely gloves off.

The Sierra Club board of directors has OK'd lifting their ban on civil disobedience.  The Tar Sands Pipeline and environmental issues warrant it according to the directors.  It's no longer a rich kids hiking club, they intend to let fly and try to make a difference.  Bout friggin time.  I might rejoin.

The EPA is toothless.  It takes the state of California to protect the nation.  Last week Tide agreed with Calif (under pressure) to remove cancer causing petroleum products from Tide starting ??, but at least they will.  Nice huh, wash your panties in Tide, get breast cancer, bag cancer, and kids, wow.

The EPA is giving Navajo power plant 15 or 20 more years to do something about their pollution.  The Navajo people have no political power, screw them, screw the Grand Canyon National Park which is near by and catches much of the smog on some days from the plant.  In the mean time, the Navajo and Hopi can let lead, mercury, acid and soot fall on their homes, sheep, horses and kids.

This is a picture from a Japan space craft of the lights.  Do you see that glow in the upper left corner.  It's in North Dakota, where it should be dark.  That is flaring.  Fracking of thousands of natural gas wells there in only the last few years turned it into the #2 gas and oil state.  Over 35% of the natural gas is just vented.  They go to all that trouble, and then piss away a third of our resource because it's cheaper than preventing it from escaping.  So much escapes it would blow the damn place up if they don't keep burning it off.  It's not harmless, it adds CO2 to the atmosphere.  And the whole thing is legal.  They could have the same amount of gas with 1/3 fewer wells, but waste is the norm, and that glow, that's global warming, that's higher gas prices, that is waste, that is big oil fucking us over.