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Threats of High-Risk Drilling Remain Year After Gulf Oil Spill
One year ago, the BP oil spill had just started turning the Gulf of Mexico’s blue waters to the color of rust. Triggered on April 20, 2010 by a well-rig explosion that killed 11 people, the spill would gush more than 200 million gallons of crude oil—the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Before the…
Read MoreDealing With Consequences of Gulf Oil Spill A Year Later
Earthjustice continues to be engaged with the consequences of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a year after it occurred: On Tuesday (April 26), our attorneys will be in oral arguments in the 5th District Federal Court, New Orleans, in our legal challenges to five new deepwater exploration permits, and one shallow…
Read MoreSaving Our Wild Places: Research Ecologist Dan Fagre
(This is the second in a series of Q & A’s on the Crown of the Continent, a 10-million-acre expanse of land in northern Montana and southern Canada. Dan Fagre is a research ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey who has spent 15 years working to understand how climate change will affect mountain ecosystems like…
Read MoreOil and Gas Companies Shirk Tax Responsibility
Break out the streamers and the party hats—it’s Tax Day! Of course the overachievers filed their taxes months ago, but no doubt a few folks are frantically sifting through piles of paper at this very moment trying to locate that wayward W-2. Either way, every year millions of Americans file their taxes and pay their…
Read MoreSaving Our Wild Places: Earthjustice's Tim Preso
Over the past decade, Tim Preso has spearheaded Earthjustice's work to protect this untouched wilderness.
Read MoreShell Announces Arctic Drill Plans One Year After Worst Oil Spill
Just one year after the nation’s worst oil spill, Shell Oil is reaffirming its plans to drill the Arctic Ocean next year. While that’s not exactly breaking news, what is new is Shell’s announcement of an oil spill containment plan designed especially for the Arctic Ocean environment. Here’s that plan as described in the Wall Street Journal: Shell…
Read MoreMark Ruffalo: Why I Fight Against Fracking
Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo explains why he is fighting to protect his home in New York’s Catskill Mountains from fracking.
Read MoreFriday Finds: Highway to the Dementia Zone
Freeway pollution could make you forget you’re in traffic As if living next to the sound of constant honking wasn’t enough, a recent study has linked freeway air pollution with brain damage, a finding that has health implications for those living near the nation’s highways, reports the LA Times. The study’s authors found that exposing…
Read MoreGas Drilling Permits While-U-Wait
The Associated Press had a story today detailing how regulators in Pennsylvania spend as little as 35 minutes reviewing gas drilling permits, before giving companies approval to blast millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the earth to extract the gas – a controversial practice known as fracking. Across the country, gas production using…
Read MoreNY Times Casts Light on Lindytown, WV, Harms of MTR
Yesterday The New York Times featured a sublimely written story by Dan Barry on the effects of mountaintop removal mining on a small town in West Virginia called Lindytown. The story, called "As the Mountaintops Fall, a Coal Town Vanishes," traces the plummeting fall of an entire mountain and the town below it to the…
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