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Stormy 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…
Read MoreClimate Experts: Prepare for “Global Weirding”
With minimal action on climate change, humanity should get ready for “weird” weather.
Read MoreStormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Patti Goldman on Orcas
This is the second 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. In early 2000, Patti Goldman, Earthjustice’s VP of Litigation, spearheaded efforts to protect the Puget Sound’s threatened orca whale population.…
Read MoreVictory For America's Forests
Last month, protection for nearly 50 million acres of wild lands was resoundingly affirmed in a court decision that will benefit future generations. After 13 years of legal battles by Earthjustice on behalf of our allies, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the Roadless Rule, a landmark preservation act that protects our nation’s wild…
Read MoreFriday Finds: The CIA’s Climate Change Secret
CIA shouldn’t be keeping secrets about climate change A new report by a U.S. government agency known as the Defense Science Board says that the CIA needs to stop being so secret about its climate change research, reports the UK Guardian. Though climate denialism in government seems to be all the rage these days, the…
Read MoreThe Dog Ate My Clean Air Standards
In 1990, Congress gave the Environmental Protection Agency a very important homework assignment: protect the American public from mercury, lead, benzene, dioxins and other invisible toxic air pollutants, because what we can’t see can hurt us. Twenty-one years later, these dangerous pollutants are still pouring forth in large quantities from smokestacks across the country. Some…
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