Blog posts with "environmental whistleblower"

  The largest environmental cleanup project in the United States is the effort to stabilize the highly radioactive nuclear waste stored at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, also known as the Hanford Site. The Hanford Site opened in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project. This site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki and continued producing plutonium for our vast nuclear weapons arsenal throughout the Cold War. Now that the Hanford Site’s 53 million gallons of highly ...

  The horrendous animal cruelty videos recorded on factory farms by whistleblowers and undercover investigators pose a serious threat to agribusiness profits. As a result, the agribusiness lobby is campaigning to criminalize taking photos and videos of animal cruelty on factory farms and to brand similar activity as eco-terrorism. The effort to demonize the animal rights movement is shared by government agencies like the FBI, which stated that “the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat is the ...