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Monday Reads: The Pacific Fisher & Socks Edition
Who is the Pacific fisher, and why did he want your socks?
Read MoreHouse Passes Pro-Coal War On Health Bill
It’s been a long two years with the 112th Congress. In that time, House leadership has often tried to “help the economy” by wiping away our basic public health and environmental protections—in the process putting thousands of Americans at risk of disease and death from exposure to toxic chemicals and carcinogens in our air and…
Read MoreHappy 98th To Living Legend Ken Hechler
No one who has met Ken will ever forget him. I first met him in 1999 when I started at Earthjustice. Joe Lovett of Appalachian Mountain Advocates and his colleagues had just won the first-ever federal court ruling against mountaintop removal. This set off a political firestorm in West Virginia and at the U.S. Capitol.…
Read MoreWaging War On Health And The Environment
Officially (but ironically) titled “Stop the War on Coal Act,” H.R. 3409 actually represents the House leadership’s own elaborate and well-funded war on longstanding protections of clean air and water enjoyed by all Americans.
Read MoreRussel Train–Best Friend Of The Clean Water Act
It’s not the passing of Russell Train – who died Monday at 92 – that we remember, but the life he led as a powerful, humble, principled warrior for the Earth. Mr. Train was chairman of the newly created White House Council on Environmental Quality before President Nixon picked him to be the second head…
Read MoreThe Earth Needs YOU This Election Season
After the summer we have had, my mind is on climate change, what more Earthjustice can do about it, and what’s at stake in this election. I experienced the effects of climate change this summer during a trip through Colorado. Heat, drought and fire set an almost apocalyptic tone for the trip. There was no…
Read MoreSugar Industry Seeks To Use Everglades As Toilet
For decades, U.S. sugar barons have been dumping their polluted runoff into the Florida Everglades. Day after day, these politically powerful corporations send chemical fertilizers and pesticides into the great marsh—wrecking America’s only subtropical wilderness in the process. It’s clearly wrong for sugar plantations to use our public natural resources as their private dumping grounds,…
Read MoreGroups Across U.S. Unite Against Coal Ash Bill
Seeking protection from unsafe dumping practices, more than 300 public interest groups from 43 states, representing millions across the nation, sent a letter this week to the U.S. Senate opposing S. 3512, the “Coal Ash Recycling and Oversight Act of 2012.” The bill, introduced last July by Sens. Hoeven (R-SD), Conrad (D-SD) and Baucus (D-…
Read MoreTaking Wyoming Wolf Hunting To Court
The tragic delisting of Wyoming’s gray wolves from the Endangered Species List has many wildlife defenders up in arms, and with sound reason: the removal of protections for the wolves marks an end to many years of successful recovery efforts of a species that was once on the verge of extinction. To hand over the…
Read MoreShell's "Happy" Mood Smashed By Ice
Hours after Shell began drilling in the Artic, operations were forced to shut down
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