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Fracking Industry Sought Lifetime Gag Order on Kids
Whatever happened to “sticks and stones”?
Read MoreGulf Residents Agree: Don’t Feel Bad for BP
Recently the oil giant BP placed full-page ads* in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal pitying itself as the real victim in the aftermath of the Gulf Spill. BP claims it is being targeted by “unscrupulous trial lawyers” representing “thousands of claimants that suffered no losses” that “smell big bucks and want…
Read MoreIt Takes a Good Lawyer To Be a Good Steward
The idea that humans should come first when it comes to our relationship with the natural world traces back to the roots of western culture. For example, in Genesis 1:26, God orders that mankind will “have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and…
Read MoreAbsolutely NO on HR 2218
This week the House will vote on the “Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013” (HR 2218) sponsored by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV). The bill ruthlessly guts longstanding public health and environmental protections of the nation’s decades-old statute protecting communities from solid and hazardous waste disposal. This shameless industry giveaway creates a giant loophole…
Read MoreSenate Stops Antics, Approves New EPA Chief
The partisan antics of a few in the Senate finally halted to allow confirmation of a new and well-qualified Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy. This Senate confirmation means that, finally, after months of political obstruction by the Congressional friends of big polluters, we have a new administrator to deliver the public…
Read MoreObama Needs to Step Up Climate Change Plan
Only a great leap forward can succeed against this critical issue
Read MoreFloating Through Time and Splendor in The Grand Canyon
The vistas are awe-inspiring. Helped by the monsoon rains and Grand Canyon winds, we could see rock layers on the opposite rim. Earthjustice is working to keep it that way.
Read MoreDriven From Predator to Prey – Sharks Face Extinction
Millions are losing their fins and lives to the sharkfin soup market.
Read MoreJudge: Fisheating Creek Should Flow With Water, Not Sand
I’m happy to announce that we won the latest legal skirmish in our 23-year quest to keep one of South Florida’s wildest waterways open to the public. On July 5, an administrative law judge in Tallahassee upheld the public’s right to boat, fish and picnic on the wonderful Fisheating Creek in Glades County, south of…
Read MoreConowingo Dam Owners Must Clean Up Their Act
The Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper, Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna and Waterkeepers Chesapeake today asked to be included in the relicensing proceedings for the Conowingo Dam, about 50 miles northeast of Baltimore. The dam affects water quality up and down the Susquehanna River and throughout Chesapeake Bay, and the groups plan to push the Federal Energy…
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