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Court Sends Pennsylvania Haze Rule Back to EPA
Agency has an April deadline to rework standard
Read MoreScience Put on Ice By Federal Shutdown
The federal government has finally ended its 16-day shutdown, and as workers return to their desks and tourists parade back into national parks, science is picking up the pieces and—in some cases—starting from scratch. The National Science Foundation’s summer U.S. Antarctic Program came to a destructive halt as D.C. juggled with the budget crisis. The…
Read MoreNAFTA To Review Tourist Developments in Baja
Earthjustice, AIDA target Mexico’s failure to protect coastal ecosystems.
Read MoreCosta Rica Acts on Human Rights Link to Climate Change
Country is striving to become carbon neutral as sea levels rise.
Read MoreTVA Five Years Later—Lessons Not Learned
Attorney Lisa Evans visited Harriman, TN, five years after the nation’s worst coal ash spill. After half a decade and more than a billion dollars, the visible ash is gone, but so is the entire neighborhood closest to the plant.
Read MoreEarthjustice Will Defend Kaua’i Pesticides Ordinance
Joins in encouraging mayor to allow ordinance to become law
Read MoreCosts of Coal Exports, Part IV: Jason Reed of Maryland
Jason Reed lives near the Port of Baltimore’s CSX coal export and processing facility.
Read MoreSupreme Court Preserves Victory Over Oil/Gas Development
It is rewarding to successfully wrap-up a case. This can be especially true when our work protects special places, preserving them for future generations. It is a pleasure to be able to point at a map and say, “Those are the places that were saved.” The U.S. Supreme Court took action last week that did…
Read MoreHigh Court Turns Deaf Ear To Climate Change Attack
This week the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed industry by refusing to hear challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that carbon dioxide and other climate change pollutants endanger our health. The court also rejected attacks on carbon pollution limits for cars and trucks – limits that respond to the court’s 2007 ruling in Massachusetts v.…
Read MoreTo House Majority, Coal Ash is More Important Than People
On Wednesday night, with less than two hours before the country defaulted on its debts, Congress ended the standoff that shut the government down for 16 days, kept countless federal workers without work or pay, and left anyone watching disheartened by partisan antics. In the end, it amounted to Congress deciding to do its job…
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