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A Hero Haunts Bush: Tom has a new climate change hero, and it isn't Al Gore.

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"Instead of making fire our enemy, we need to make it an ally." --Earthjustice attorney McCrystie Adams, as she challenged management of national forests in the Southwest. Bulletin... Earthjustice and its Kansas allies today confronted big coal in the Kansas State Supreme Court, where the future of coal-fired energy is being contested. The Sunflower power plant expansion had been rejected by state regulators on the basis of its global warming impact. Sunflower's appeal of that rejection is being challenged in court by Earthjustice. Global Warming From dirty coal in Kansas to the Arctic's melting, Earthjustice is taking on global warming's causes and impacts. Read here to explore the breadth of our campaign.

Buck's Swan Song: As he flies the executive coop, departing Earthjustice Executive Director Buck Parker warns that global warming threatens all we love and all we have defended as an organization for three decades. Buck Parker is Earthjustice's executive director. E-mail him at buckparker@earthjustice.org.

Hear and see a report from the front lines of Global Warming: the Arctic's Beaufort Sea. The reporter is on an icebreaker that is even now carving a path through winter ice on an expedition to assess impacts of climate change.

Arctic Shell game continues Shell Oil is back in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, trying to overturn an Earthjustice victory that kept it from drilling exploratory wells in waters off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In the air: jets and their pollutants Earthjustice led a coalition of environmental groups in petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency to address the vast amounts of global warming pollution from the world's aircraft fleet. Overlooked: the mercury danger Mercury is a dangerous pollutant spewed by coal- and oil-fired power plants that is virtually ignored by the Environmental Protection Agency, Earthjustice attorney Jim Pew argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit. Coal's worst nightmare: Washington State Washington State refused to permit a coal-fired power plant because it violates the state's tough, new standards for global warming gases. EPA ignores coal ash dangers Coal fly ash pollution is a growing national public health problem that has been ignored by the Environmental Protection Agency, says Earthjustice attorney Lisa Evans.