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Twice Rejected, Developer Again Tries To Seize Water
How many times does Aaron Million need to hear the word, no? The president of Wyco development corporation has twice been rejected by federal agencies in his attempt to build Flaming Gorge Pipeline—a massive trans-basin water supply project that would annually take approximately 81 billion gallons of water from the Flaming Gorge Reservoir and the…
Read MoreLove Matt Damon? Hate Fracking? This Film's For You!
I’m not going to even try to hide my excitement at the news that Matt Damon co-wrote and is starring in a feature film, titled Promised Land, about the controversial gas development technique known as fracking. The actor has made his concerns known about fracking’s link to water pollution in this two-minute spot by Working…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: It’s About Time
Today, 3 years after the largest toxic waste spill in U.S. history, 11 environmental and public health groups will file a lawsuit to force the Environmental Protection Agency to complete its rulemaking and finalize public health safeguards against coal ash pollution. The EPA has delayed federal protection for decades despite overwhelming evidence that carcinogenic, neurotoxic, mutagenic…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: Alaska Leaders Bury Their Heads In Coal Ash
(Russ Maddox is an Alaska Chapter Sierra Club volunteer.) As the rest of the nation wakes up and begins to realize how damaging wanton handling and disposal of coal ash truly is, regulators and leaders in Alaska continue to keep their heads buried in the sand, or in this case, coal ash. The forests of…
Read MoreFriday Finds: It’s (Almost) End of the World As We Know It
Climate scientists warn that Earth’s tipping points are at the tipping point Recently, climate scientists announced that this is the last decade to cut carbon emissions significantly or there’s no going back on global warming, reports Reuters. And they’re not just talking about freak heat waves and threats to Cherry Blossom festivals. Though estimates differ,…
Read MoreEPA Proposes Standards For Pollution From New Coal Plants
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed historic new standards to limit industrial carbon pollution from new coal-fired power plants, which is a critical step to protect the health of American children and families. Successful advocacy before the courts made today’s landmark action possible. On April 2, 2007 the Supreme Court in the Massachusetts v. EPA…
Read MoreSpruce Court Decision: A Sad Day in West Virginia
Citizens vow to fight harder against mountaintop removal mining
Read MoreOn World Water Day, Take a Sip, Take a Moment
World Water Day reminds us of our most valuable resource of all: clean water.
Read MoreFriday Finds: The Clean Air Diet
Forget Fritos: Air pollution may be making people fat Sure, it’s got nothing on the much-hyped “Paleo Diet,” but a new theory that air pollution may be making us fat could provide one more bullet in the never-ending arsenal of dieting ticks and trips that people can use to lose weight. According to Discovery News, just…
Read MoreBreathing is Popular
Breathing isn’t just a physiological necessity, relegated to the unconscious functioning of our reptilian brains. It’s actually quite popular. Darn popular! I imagine that’s so because not all breathing is created equal. There’s the satisfying lungful of sweet, clean air (I hope we have all had that experience). And there’s the cough-inducing, eye-watering, lung-busting inhalation…
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