Good News Headlines 4/14/15
8 Striking Portraits of People in the Path of Canada’s Mega Tar Sands
by Kristin Moe, Yes! Magazine
When photographer Robert van Waarden heard about Transcanada’s Energy East project—a tar sands pipeline that, if built, would be the longest such pipeline in the world and would exceed the capacity of Keystone XL by about 30 percent—he did what he knew how to do: he took pictures… Read more
Whales, Dolphins Get a Life-Saving Break from Navy’s Sonar Games
by Miyoko Sakashita, The Huffington Post
A federal judge this week invalidated a plan allowing the U.S. Navy to conduct dangerous and disruptive war games that the government admitted would cause about 9.6 million instances of harm to marine mammals over five years… Read more
Lowe’s to Stop Selling Neonic Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths
NBC News
The home improvement chain announced on Thursday that it would phase out products containing neonic pesticides over the next four years… Read more
Montana House Republicans Break Ranks to Pass Medicaid Expansion
by Cristina Maza, Christian Science Monitor
A contentious legislative battle in Montana ended this week, after the state's GOP-controlled House voted to accept federal funding to expand Medicaid to the working poor – a feature of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, that Republicans had vigorously opposed… Read more
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