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Earthjustice Thankful For EPA Chief Lisa Jackson
Earthjustice is saddened by today’s announcement that Lisa Jackson is stepping down as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. America owes Lisa Jackson a debt of gratitude for her work to protect the public’s health from polluters and their allies in Congress. For her efforts to clean up pollution and better protect the environment and…
Read MoreEPA Grants Deathly Delay Of Cement Rule
“…My son’s school would be named in a USA Today report as being in the upper 1 percent of the most toxic schools in the nation—the same school I butted heads with cement plant executives about being under the toxic plumes while children were at recess.” – Alex Allred, 50 States United Clean Air Ambassador…
Read MoreStrong Start To Protecting Key Alaska Habitat
Interior announces a final plan for managing the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Read More"Chasing Ice" Shows Unsettling Effects of Climate Change
Last month, a movie premiered with a graphic visual of climate change—enough to disconcert viewers across the country. Jeff Orlowski’s "Chasing Ice" depicts a photographer’s brave and relentless journey through the vast Arctic in the face of treacherous weather, technological failure and a bad leg injury. The photographer was documenting rapidly vanishing glaciers over years…
Read MoreIn Memoriam: Joan Mulhern
Earthjustice mourns the passing of the strongest and bravest advocate for clean water and justice that we have ever known, our very own senior legislative counsel Joan Mulhern.
Read MorePoisoning The Well
She was one of 26 mountain lions being studied by National Park Service biologists. Collared back in August along with her brother, Puma-25 had been dead for about a week before hikers found her on an October Sunday in Point Mugu State Park, located in the Santa Monica Mountains. Her death, though, didn’t come at…
Read MoreWarning To Parents About Kids' Exposure To Pesticides
The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling on the government, schools, parents and medical professionals to take concerted action to protect children from pesticides. The 60,000-member physicians organization is worried about the growing body of scientific evidence that links these toxic chemicals not only to obvious poisoning but also to subtle health problems kids can…
Read MoreSilencing The Wolf
Gray wolf 832F of the Lamar Canyon pack was killed by a hunter.
Read MoreCongressional 'Think Tank' Exposes Flaws of Coal Ash Bill
The Congressional Research Service, dubbed the U.S. Congress’ ‘think tank’, recently released an authoritative analysis of S.3512 and—to the dismay of the bill’s stalwart sponsors—it’s a bust. CRS, a department of the Library of Congress and nonpartisan research tool for the House and Senate, recently weighed in definitively on the Senate and House coal ash…
Read MoreWashington Post Highlights Toxic Fish in Anacostia River
We have spent more than 15 years championing the need for cleaning up the Anacostia River (as well as the Potomac River and Rock Creek). And what better reason than the fact that several District and Prince George County residents depend on the river for sustenance. This disturbing (you’ll know why in a moment) Washington…
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