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Friday Finds: Seafood S.O.S.
Seafood lovers hooked on $1 oyster nights may soon have to find a new source of comfort for the work week blues. Thanks to an increase of carbon in both the atmosphere and our water bodies (which absorb about a third of all carbon emissions), carbon munching critters like crabs, lobsters and shrimp are getting…
Read MoreVictory: Court Upholds EPA Authority to Protect Appalachia
Unanimous panel of judges rule for EPA in coal industry lawsuit
Read MoreArctic Athabaskans Urge Black Carbon Reductions to Protect Homelands
Our homelands—the Arctic wildlife and ecosystems that are the foundation of our culture and traditional ways of life—are fast changing. Arctic warming has made the weather, the condition of the ice, and the behaviors and location of fish and wildlife so unpredictable that our Elders no longer feel confident teaching younger people traditional ways. If…
Read MoreEPA's Mixed Bag of Options on Power Plant Water Pollution
One option protects waters from toxic pollution; other options fall far short
Read MoreMexico Should Heed Lush Lesson of Costa Rica
This month, I had the very good fortune to visit Costa Rica, home to some of greatest biodiversity in the world. In this tiny nation, plants and animals from temperate North America and from tropical South America mingle in habitats at different altitudes (including active volcanoes and rain forests at the beach)! I marveled at…
Read MoreDevil's Slide Was No Tunnel of Love
The first responsibility of a physician is to do no harm. The first responsibility of an environmentalist is never to accept a dumb solution to a problem when a better solution is available. Case in point: Devil’s Slide south of San Francisco, a stretch of Highway 1 that would crumble into the Pacific every 10…
Read MoreUnplugged: Improving Energy Efficiency a Gray Box at a Time
In 2007, we filed a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s weak energy efficiency standards for electricity distribution transformers, those gray boxes mounted on utility poles that power all our homes and businesses. The results of that lawsuit are new standards from the U.S. Department of Energy that were published in the Federal Register on Thursday.…
Read MorePick Your Wildlife Poison
It’s hard to know, sometimes, who to trust with America’s wildlife. For the most part, wildlife is managed by individual states, which do some good science and issue tags for hunting licenses. They are also, theoretically, on the front lines of ensuring that wildlife species don’t get into such trouble that the federal government needs…
Read MoreLean Green Two-Wheeled Machines Bike for Sustainability
In just one month’s time, 190 riders will cumulatively bike a total of 60,000 miles to spread the message: climate change is the most urgent problem we face today, and it’s up to us to take action. Our 4-woman team with the alias of “Lean Green Two-Wheeled Machines” will be riding on behalf of Earthjustice,…
Read MoreA Reason to Celebrate Earth Day: No Arctic Ocean Drilling
Perhaps you’ve already read the good news by our crackerjack Alaska attorney Holly Harris, who reported that ConocoPhillips is the latest Big Oil company to postpone drilling in the oft-treacherous waters of the Arctic Ocean. Shell previously announced it was abandoning plans to drill there this year. A combination of Arctic fury and years of…
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