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Environmental Issues

WilderUtopia sees environmental issues as publicizing harmful effects of human activity on the biophysical environment, and seeking methods to solve problems, transcend boundaries and build a better and more sustainable future. Environmentalism, a social and environmental movement that spans race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status, addresses environmental issues through advocacy, education and activism.

Wildlife

Protecting the Sage-Grouse in a Sea of Natural Gas

September 15, 2015 by The Outpost 0 comments

While stopping short of full endangered species protections for the Greater Sage-Grouse, the Obama-era Fish and Wildlife Service implemented land use plans to restrict energy development and grazing in the expanse of northwestern U.S. desert called the Sagebrush Sea, depicted in a 2015 documentary. The Trump Interior Department attempted to amend that plan to open up more commercial activities. We feature here an essay on Wyoming’s core plan attempts to salvage the state’s last populations in a landscape dominated by energy development.

crude by rail, Los Angeles, Stop Oil Trains Week of Action

Hundreds Rally in Los Angeles to Stop Oil Trains

July 23, 2015 by Jack Eidt 3 comments

On July 11, Los Angeles joined communities across North America to call for a halt to shipping volatile and toxic crude oil via unsafe rail cars, which has caused numerous derailment explosions during the last six years as the practice has increased 4,000%. In particular, activists call for the City of L.A. to protect their communities and $1.3 billion river revitalization by opposing a crude by rail expansion in San Luis Obispo.

$oil by rail, fracking, BNSF$

Energy, Tar Sands

BOOM: Crude Oil Bomb Trains Exploding in North America

June 27, 2015 by The Outpost 2 comments

A documentary investigates the threat from volatile and toxic crude oil bomb trains now rolling through neighborhoods across North America. After five fiery accidents in the first five months of 2015, one can only ask: “Whose community will explode next?”

Energy, Politics and Advocacy, Tar Sands

Los Angeles: Stop Oil Trains Day of Action – July 11

June 17, 2015 by Jack Eidt 4 comments

The time for action against oil trains is now! On Saturday, July 11, SoCal 350 Climate Action and its regional partners rallied at L.A.’s Union Station and held a teach-in in front of Olvera Street, calling for an end to bringing exploding bomb trains loaded with tar sands and other volatile crude oils into our communities.

Plains All American, Refugio Oil Spill, Santa Barbara

Energy, Tar Sands

Santa Barbara Oil Spill Spreading: Big Oil Plans for More Tar Sands

June 3, 2015 by The Outpost 2 comments

The most recent oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast that has decimated wildlife and soiled California beaches with tar over a 350-mile area has been an unmitigated disaster. It illustrates weaknesses in basic safety measures for pipelines and crude by rail, as well as risks associated with industry plans to expand tar sands and other extreme drilling infrastructure on the West Coast.

Bomb Trains, crude by rail, Casselton, ND

Energy, Tar Sands

Crude Oil Bomb Train Russian Roulette — Who’s Next?

April 24, 2015 by The Outpost 1 comment

A short documentary warns about the dangers posed by trains that transport explosive crude oil across North America. These 100-plus car trains carry highly flammable Bakken shale and Alberta tar sands crude oil and have been an increasingly common—and lethal—sight across communities in the United States.

Climate, Oceans, Wildlife

California Sea Lion Suffering Warming Pacific, Disappeared Sardines

April 21, 2015 by The Outpost 0 comments

Sick, starving and dying sea lion pups are washing up on the shores of California in record numbers this year. The culprit? An unusual blob of record warm water parked off the North Pacific Coast for a year and a half, affecting circulation and weather patterns with no relief in sight. Hence, sardine fisheries have collapsed with wildlife heading north.