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Down to Earth is an audio podcast about the news, events and personalities of Earthjustice. Attorneys, clients, scientific experts and other guests give in-depth interviews on Earthjustice's work.

New episodes are released monthly.

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Community Petition to EPA for Rulemaking on Mountaintop Removal Pollution Water Quality Standard

A coalition of Appalachian and national groups pressed the Environmental Protection Agency for stronger protection for their waters from the most extreme form of coal mining, mountaintop removal.

Teleconference: Clean Water for Florida
For more than two decades, Earthjustice has been working to implement effective regulations to restore Florida’s waterways and halt destructive practices and projects. Managing Attorney David Guest discusses how Earthjustice is protecting Florida’s water and the national implications of that work.
Down to Earth: Keeping the Wolverine Wild
After more than a decade of litigation, the federal government has finally proposed to protect wolverines as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Down to Earth speaks with Douglas H. Chadwick, a wildlife biologist and journalist who wrote the book The Wolverine Way.
Teleconference: Protecting Wyoming's Wolves
Tim Preso, managing attorney of the Earthjustice Northern Rockies office, has been working to defend the wolf population in the region for more than a decade. In a teleconference, he discusses the background, history and perspective to Earthjustice’s decades-long fight to protect the endangered gray wolf.
Teleconference: All-Out Strategy, How Earthjustice Tackles Climate Change
Listen to a conversation with Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen on Earthjustice’s approach to tackling the vast and complex issue of climate change. Trip discusses Earthjustice's unique position to create change by leveraging the power of the law to realize a sustainable future.
The Fossil Fuel Body Burden
Sandra Steingraber is an acclaimed ecologist and author of the new book, "Raising Elijah," which takes a personal yet scientific look at the abundant human exposure to toxic chemicals. She believes that we can both reform toxics regulation and stop climate change by getting off of dirty fossil fuels. Sandra Steingraber spoke with Kari Birdseye, national press secretary at Earthjustice.
What Does the 2012 Election Mean for the Environment?
In the wake of superstorm Sandy, the 2012 election represents a critical moment for the environment. President Obama's re-election makes it clear that the people of this country will not sacrifice the right to a healthy environment in exchange for big profits for big polluters. Join Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen and VP of Policy and Legislation Martin Hayden as they review election results, assess the impact on our work, and answer questions from Earthjustice supporters.
Open Season in Wyoming Threatens Wolf Recovery
"Clean Coal's" Dirty Secret
In this episode of the podcast Down to Earth, Dr. Alan H. Lockwood discusses coal’s dirty characteristics and why cleaning up air pollutants could result in trillions of dollars of health-related benefits in the United States.
Down to Earth: The Environmental Beef with Industrial Agriculture
Earthjustice attorney Marianne Engelman Lado discusses confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, and their effects on people’s health and the environment.
Down to Earth: The Dark Side of the Fracking Boom
In this episode, Earthjustice content producer Jessica Knoblauch speaks with Deborah Goldberg, the managing attorney at Earthjustice’s Northeast office. For almost four years, Goldberg has been working on cases involving fracking, a controversial form of extreme gas drilling that can contaminate the air and water.
Intelligence Squared U.S.: The Great Fracking Debate
Earthjustice Managing Attorney Deborah Goldberg was a panelist on a nationally broadcast debate presented by Intelligence Squared in partnership with the Aspen Ideas Festival. Goldberg and Katherine Hudson of Riverkeeper will debated NY Times columnist Joe Nocera and former DOE Assistant Secretary Susan Tierney. The motion: "No Fracking Way: The Natural Gas Boom Is Doing More Harm than Good".
Down to Earth
Down to Earth is an audio podcast about the news, events and personalities of Earthjustice. Hear from attorneys, clients, scientific experts and other guests on the different aspects of Earthjustice's litigation work. New episodes are released monthly.
Down to Earth: On Thin Ice
In this episode, Earthjustice staffer Jessica Knoblauch reports on the record-breaking ice melt that’s occurring in the Arctic. As Arctic temperatures increase, research suggests that warmer waters could shift weather patterns elsewhere, bringing more extreme weather to the U.S.
Down to Earth: David Henkin on Oahu's Makua Valley
Earthjustice Press Secretary Kari Birdseye speaks with David Henkin, an attorney in our Mid-Pacific office. For almost two decades, Henkin has worked to force the U.S Army to stop live-fire training operations at the Mākua Military Reservation on Oʻahu. A culturally and ecologically important area, Mākua is home to scores of ancient Hawaiian artifacts, cultural sites and nearly 50 endangered plants and animals.
Sen. Brown Thank You

In March 2012, Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to reduce toxic emissions from industrial power plants or boilers. As a result, thousands of children will be protected from hospital visits, severe asthma attacks and even death.

Erika Rosenthal: On The Impacts Of Climate Change
An interview with attorney Erika Rosenthal on how Earthjustice is engaging the international community in the process of reducing the causes of climate change, including tackling emissions on the international stage and working to reduce emissions of other global warming pollutants, like black carbon and ozone, which are accelerating warming and melting in the Arctic.
Down to Earth: Steve Roady on Protecting the Oceans
Earthjustice staffer Jessica Knoblauch speaks with Steve Roady, Oceans Program Director at Earthjustice. For more than a decade, Roady has been litigating cases that help protect our oceans from pollution, overfishing and habitat loss. Earthjustice is also ramping up efforts to mitigate climate change impacts to the ocean, such as sea level rise and ocean acidification.
Down to Earth: Patti Goldman on Protecting Orca Whales
Earthjustice staffer Jessica Knoblauch speaks with Patti Goldman, Vice President for Litigation at Earthjustice. Before serving as Vice President, Goldman headed Earthjustice’s northwest regional office where she has spearheaded efforts to protect the orca whales that make Puget Sound their home. The iconic creatures are at risk of extinction due to a decline in both the abundance and toxic contamination of salmon, their main food source.
Down to Earth: Andrea Treece on West Coast Oceans Work
Earthjustice staffer Jessica Knoblauch speaks with Andrea Treece, an attorney who focuses on west coast issues as part of Earthjustice’s core oceans litigation team. Treece first started at Earthjustice as an intern for the Ocean Law Project. She now works on protecting forage fish species like herring, anchovies and sardines, which serve as the building blocks of the ocean food web and are being vacuumed out of the ocean at unsustainable levels.