Judge lifts logging ban in 40 states outside the west

Winnie-the-Pooh returns to court to face continuing legal battle

By: HeatherLeigh

The argument over who has legal rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works and Characters from A.A. Milne (1930) is back in court. Since 1991, the estate of Stephen Slesinger, producer of everyone’s favorite, honey loving bear, and has been suing Disney for rights infringement. According to a BBCBBC News report the battle is not over. In 2004 a ...

21 days ago

Keep It Wild

By: buzztail

I see Jon Tester is making a couple of stops here in Montana on the promotional tour for his land use bill. And it's apparently working. A lot of folks are willing to support this thing for a lot of reasons. It's being said that if it fails, it will signal that Montana doesn't want any more wilderness, and that it could be a long time, if ever, ...

about 1 month ago

Dalits recover 642 acres of Land-Read the whole Saga

By: chnarendra

This is not a story. It happened only last week. Newspapers in Mysore have published it yesterday. But it can be made into a Movie. Such is the saga of success of REDS, Dalit Panchayats and the Booshakthi Vedike in Karnataka. “If you proceed any further we shall shoot you” The Range Forest Officer laid his hands on the gun in his ...

7 days ago

Mining company to destroy last mountain in Coal River Valley

By: DelilahStarling

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.— A subsidiary of Massey Energy has begun mountaintop-removal coal-mining operations on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, the only peak in Coal River Valley that hasn’t been blasted away for mining. Blasting for the mine is taking place 200 yards from the Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment, which holds 8 billion ...

about 1 month ago