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Tr-Ash Talk: 'Stand Your Ground' Embraces Coal Ash
The New York Times reported over the weekend that Common Cause, a nonprofit watchdog group, was using thousands of documents it received to bolster a claim that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) violates its nonprofit status by practicing in state and federal lobbying. ALEC, which has been in the news lately, is a corporate…
Read MoreGroup Wins Chance to Protect Grand Canyon
We’re in! Judge Martone of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona today granted our motion to intervene to defend the Department of the Interior’s decision to ban new uranium mining claims for 20 years across 1 million acres of public lands adjacent to the Grand Canyon. Today’s order – read it here…
Read MoreBP Oil Spill – Two Years Ago Today
Remembering America’s greatest environmental disaster, two years later.
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: The Coal Breath of Betrayal
The House’s embrace of David McKinley’s (R-WV) amendment and its attachment to the transportation bill is nothing short of a deadly betrayal of public health. This measure ensures that the nation’s dangerous and leaking coal ash ponds and landfills will continue to operate indefinitely without regulation or federal oversight. If it passes the Senate, it…
Read MoreHere's Why Asthmatics Need Dirty Air
A remarkable thing happened during a Senate hearing today on the EPA’s rule to limit toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants. A critic of the agency’s policy argued that reducing air pollution from coal-fired power plants—the nation’s worst air polluters—is a bad idea because it will make it more expensive for asthmatics to run…
Read MoreInupiat Leader Wins Goldman Award
The world’s largest prize for environmental action has been awarded to Caroline Cannon, an Inupiat leader and former president of the Native Village of Point Hope in Alaska. Cannon is the North American recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, a major prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental heroes from the six inhabited continents. Erik Grafe, an…
Read MoreFriday Finds: The Government's Toxic Love Affair
EPA disses green chemistry program.
Read MoreUtah Versus the National Parks
State prepares assault on national icons.
Read MoreFarmworkers Savor Sweet Taste of Victory
In March of 2012, the maker of methyl iodide took the chemical off the market, less than a year after Earthjustice sued to protect strawberry field workers from the deadly pesticide. This means that those who labor on our behalf can themselves enjoy the fruits of their labor without fear of crippling or even fatal results.
Read MoreIn Florida, Green Is Toxic
As I write this, a new toxic algae bloom has broken out on southwest Florida’s Caloosahatchee River, filling the air with a sickening stench. We are so infuriated at seeing this heartbreaking pollution disaster wreck our beautiful Florida so early in the toxic algae season. As you’ve read in this blog before, these outbreaks of…
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