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Stink from Sunshine Canyon Landfill draws protest

2015-09-20 02:51:16| Waste Management - Topix.net

GRANADA HILLS >> The miasma drifts into their yards at sundown and stays through dawn, they say, ferrying the reek of millions of tons of rotting trash. But when a late-summer heat wave lingered past Labor Day, residents say the nearby Sunshine Canyon Landfill sent an especially malodorous cloud through Granada Hills homes and schools, generating 178 complaints this month to air regulators.

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Protest At Oakland Whole Foods Over Confrontation Between Black Customer, Guard

2015-09-11 06:16:00| Grocery - Topix.net

CBS San Francisco Connect With Us At KPIX 5 PROGRAM GUIDE: KPIX 5 TV Schedule WATCH: A Glimpse Inside The Working KPIX 5 Newsroom Breaking News Send news tips, video & photos, and video to the KPIX 5 [] CONNECT WITH KCBS Welcome to KCBS All News 740AM & 106.9FM on CBSSanFrancisco.com! LISTEN LIVE RIGHT NOW: KCBS Live Audio Stream LIKE KCBS Radio On Facebook: KCBS is the Bay Area's only all news station, serving [] OAKLAND - A small but determined group of people protested at the Whole Foods Market near Lake Merritt this evening over the alleged beating of a black customer by an armed security guard a week ago.

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First Nations lead protest against pollution Ontario's Chemical Valley

2015-09-08 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Observer: Hundreds of climate activists marched in a Toxic Tour through a bleak industrial landscape on the edge of Ontario that is a frontline in Canadas climate wars. They were gathered to support the tiny Aamjiwnaang First Nation, whose traditional territory lies near an area known as "Chemical Valley" -- a 15 square-mile area in Sarnia, where over 40 per cent of Canada's chemical industry is based. Nearly 60 oil refineries and factories are crammed into an industrial strip overlooking the St. Clair...

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