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Fracking Voted Out in Three Colorado Communities
TAKE ACTION, COLORADO! This week, the citizens of Longmont, Boulder, Fort Collins, Lafayette and Broomfield told the Governor to stand up to the oil & gas industry and protect our communities. Now, as state health officials are drafting new rules to regulate oil & gas emissions state-wide, you can join the call for stronger clean…
Read MoreMessed Up in Michigan
Clean Water Fund’s new report, Toxic Trash Exposed: Coal Ash Pollution in Michigan, reveals widespread damage from coal ash dumping in Michigan. The report discloses dozens of waterways and aquifers already poisoned and warns of statewide harm due to failure to impose reasonable safeguards on toxic dumping. Clean Water Action released Toxic Trash Exposed on…
Read MoreKauaʻi Mayor Ignores Constituents, Vetoes Ordinance
Ordinance would provide safeguards against pesticide exposure
Read MoreShell Plans to Drill in The Arctic in 2014
Moves ahead despite past failures, warnings and a wrecked rig.
Read MoreA Spooky Premise
What if EPA’s coal ash rule doesn’t close unlined lagoons? Wet dumping is the cheapest way, in the short-term, to dispose of toxic coal ash—but it is also the most dangerous.
Read MoreCourt 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.
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