Tr-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.…

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Stormy 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…

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Appalachian 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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Stormy 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.…

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Victory 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…

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Friday 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…

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The 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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Stormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Steve Roady on Oceans

This is the first 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.

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