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U.S. Lags As Europe Adopts Airline Pollution Rule
Emissions from aircraft are a substantial contributor to global warming. Taking into account greenhouse gas emissions, the warming effect of contrails and aviation-induced cirrus clouds, and anticipated growth in air traffic, scientists estimate that aircraft could be responsible for as much as 10 percent of human-caused global warming by 2050. So, of course the airlines…
Read MoreMost Popular unEarthed Reads Of 2011
A Top 10 Countdown of the most read blogs from Unearthed.
Read MoreVIDEO: In the Shadow of the Stacks
The historic victory for clean air announced a few days ago—limits on the mercury, arsenic and other toxic emissions from coal plants—has been a long time coming. Congress called for these limits in 1990, but the coal power industry got to work undermining them straight away. As a result, instead of getting the breath of…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: Not a Day to Celebrate
So much has happened since that terrible day three years ago when more than 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge burst through a dam at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, about 150 miles from Nashville. For starters, the Environmental Protection Agency, which had promised to move swiftly to protect…
Read MoreFriday Finds: Monsanto’s Ministry of Truth
Pesticide-resistant bugs eat Monsanto’s crops, lies & profits Monsanto is taking a page from George Orwell’s 1984 with the recent release of an EPA report that chides the biotech company for not adequately monitoring its pesticide-resistant crops, reports Mother Jones. According to the agency’s report, a pesky bug known as corn rootworm is rising up…
Read MoreMajor Win in Twenty-Year Fight to Cut Mercury
Earthjustice’s litigation and advocacy helped to finally bring coal-fired power plants—the juggernauts of toxic air pollution—under EPA scrutiny. New rules released in December 2012 will slash mercury emissions by 90 percent and save thousands of lives.
Read MorePresident Obama Speaks Out on New Coal Plant Standards
The White House recently posted a video of President Obama discussing the new clean air protections that his administration released today to limit mercury, arsenic and other air toxic emissions from power plants. The President’s words underscore how momentous this occasion is. The fight for these protections is more than two decades old. Earthjustice entered…
Read MoreIn the Shadow of the Stacks
"It’s like hell. Living in hell," says Marti Blake, when asked about being neighbors with a coal-fired power plant. "It’s filthy, it’s dirty, it’s noisy, it’s unhealthy." For the past 21 years, Blake has lived across the street from the Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale, PA. A family situation left her trying to find a…
Read More2011: A Banner Year for Energy Lobbying
Lobbying was a big expense for Big Energy in 2011
Read MoreUnplugged: Who Asked GOP To Take On Light Bulb Fight?
Usually when our elected leaders fight federal rules, they are going to the mat for their corporate benefactors. Yet we scratch our heads in wonder over who exactly has pushed them to take on this light bulb fight. Last week, the House GOP majority included in their must-pass funding legislation a rider to block funding…
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