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Friday Finds: Climate Change Leaves Wine Connoisseurs Dry
Climate change leaves CA wine lovers with fewer options California’s popular wine varieties may soon be hard to find thanks to drier and hotter temperatures caused by climate change, reports the Center for Investigative Reporting. Though by now farmers are used to Mother Nature’s unpredictability, a slightly wetter or drier season is nothing compared to…
Read MoreFriday Finds: The Extreme Food Edition
Climate change may ruin BLTs and loaded baked potatoes You know Americans may be a little food-obsessed when the only time we get concerned about climate change is when it affects our favorite meals. According to the USDA, this year’s drought is so bad that it’s expected to negatively impact next year’s pork production, reports…
Read MoreMajor Oil Company Opposes Arctic Drilling
The “Big Oil” companies are breaking ranks. The fourth largest oil company in the world
Read MoreCitizens Lodge Complaints About Baltimore Harbor Pollution
In June, Earthjustice was dismayed when the Maryland Department of the Environment put out a proposal that failed to adequately reduce pollution from Baltimore Harbor. Tina Meyers of the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper, who we work with on this issue, said: The Baltimore City stormwater pollution permit is meant to regulate the pollution that is discharging…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: Puerto Rico Communities Seek Justice, Protection
Fed up with the illegal dumping of toxic waste in their communities, a group of concerned citizens from Guayama and Salinas, Puerto Rico, Comité Dialogo Ambiental (CDA), has drawn a line in the sand. CDA will take AES Corporation—theVirginia-based energy giant—to federal court unless it meets the group’s demands and stops the dangerous dumping of toxic waste from its Guayama power plant.
Read MoreVIDEO: Sneak Preview of Matt Damon Fracking Film
Here’s the trailer for Promised Land, a feature film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon that depicts the effects of the fracking boom on a small town. It is definitely worth a watch: Damon is cast as a likeable farmboy-turned-landman, earnestly persuading struggling farmers to lease their properties to oil and gas…
Read MoreCritical Mass At 20
How a bike ride in San Francisco started an international movement to reconsider car domination of our cities.
Read MoreMonday 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.…
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