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Survivor: The Sea Turtle Edition
It’s not every day that a wild animal gets a lucky break, but a few months back that’s exactly what happened to Karsten, a peaceful loggerhead sea turtle that was released off of Sombrero Beach in the Florida Keys after months of rehabilitation. Karsten was found back in May with a fishhook in his jaw…
Read MoreStepping Out of the Shadows
What’s it like to live in the shadow of a smokestack? Ask Kim Wasserman, executive director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) and a resident of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood—a culturally vibrant area on the city’s west side that many, including Wasserman, refer to as the “Mexican capital of the Midwest.” Wasserman and…
Read MoreBig Air Announcement Coming in December
Mark your calendars. Dec. 16 is going to be a big deal—particularly for families with children across the country. I know that Alvin, Simon and Theodore are getting Chipwrecked that day, but that’s not what I’m thinking about. There’s something even bigger coming down: the Environmental Protection Agency is going to release final standards to…
Read MoreYellowstone Grizzly Bears Safer For Now
Yellowstone grizzly bears warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. So says the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which recently upheld a lower-court ruling that rejected a federal government effort to strip the bears of their protections. When the government “delisted” the bears in 2007, which stripped them of protections under the Endangered Species…
Read MoreStormy Waters: National Geographic’s David Doubilet, Part II
This is the sixth in a series of Q and As on Earthjustice’s oceans work, which works to prevent habitat loss and overfishing, as well as to reduce the impacts of climate change on the ocean. David Doubilet, an acclaimed underwater photographer for National Geographic, talks about his experiences as an underwater photographer and provides tips…
Read MoreStormy Waters: National Geographic’s David Doubilet, Part I
This is the fifth in a series of Q and As on Earthjustice’s oceans work, which works to prevent habitat loss and overfishing, as well as reduce the impacts of climate change on the ocean. David Doubilet, an acclaimed underwater photographer for National Geographic, has spent decades photographing underwater images and has seen firsthand how…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: Thank You!
It’s been a hard year for those of us who dream of our drinking water being free from coal ash contamination. We waited for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release standards for regulating toxic coal ash and were dismayed to find out they would be delayed until the end of 2012 or even 2013.…
Read MoreStormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Andrea Treece
This is the fourth in a series of Q and As on Earthjustice’s oceans work, which works to prevent habitat loss and overfishing, as well as reduce the impacts of climate change on the ocean. Earthjustice attorney Andrea Treece is part of a core oceans litigation team whose work helps protect forage fish species like…
Read MoreStormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Roger Fleming
Our planet is a blue planet and yet the oceans receive relatively little attention from an environmental perspective.
Read MoreAppalachian Coal Jobs Reach 14-Year High
A little-covered news item from Nov. 18 bears much more attention. The Charleston Gazette‘s Ken Ward reported on some new data that blows the top off two years of coal industry lies and spin: Obama’s so-called “job-killing regulations” and “war on coal” are not actually killing jobs, they are CREATING JOBS! We’ve been saying it all along, but…
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