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Costs 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…
Read MoreBison: Wildlife or Livestock?
As wild bison return to the plains, ranchers target them as livestock
Read MoreCosts of Coal Exports, Part III: Margaret Fox of Maryland
(This is the third in a four-part series profiling communities that could be seriously impacted by increased toxic air and water pollution resulting from the federal government’s financing of the export of Appalachian coal to Asia.) This week, we meet Margaret Fox who lives near the CSX coal export and processing facility at the Port…
Read MoreProtecting Coral’s Protectors
Meet the butler of coral reefs.
Read MoreGetting Our Nation's New Climate Rules Right
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cements the urgency for U.S. leaders to move boldly and quickly on climate change, and the most logical place to start is the nation’s fleet of power plants.
Read MoreWhat It Means To Live by a Carbon Budget
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the most precise yet thanks to advances in scientific monitoring, confirms that climate change impacts are outpacing previous projections for ocean warming, the rate of glacial ice melt in the arctic, and sea level rise. But the biggest takeaway of the report is the unprecedented step it takes in setting a carbon budget.
Read MoreEPA Sued Over Outdoor Heaters Spewing Soot
Many Americans are looking to escape high heating bills and have found what seems to be the perfect solution: outdoor wood boilers. But they aren’t as innocuous as they may look.
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