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BP 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…
Read MoreLloyd’s Urges Caution In The Arctic
The Obama administration is all ears—deaf ones—when it comes to dire warnings about drilling in the Arctic made by scientists, policymakers, international figures and celebrities. The latest caution came today from the world’s largest and oldest insurance market, Lloyd’s of London, which warned that offshore drilling in the Arctic would “constitute a unique and hard-to-manage…
Read MoreSnatching Skagit River Water Is In The Public Interest?
Washington state’s Swinomish tribe faces a water rights battle in the Skagit River basin, the likes of which we have seen before. It’s reminiscent of the dispute that broke out around a decade ago in the Klamath River basin in California and Oregon. That dispute led to a fish kill of about 70,000 salmon after…
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