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Death to Trees! And Elk! And Bald Eagles!
How should America’s 190 million acres of national forest be managed? Nine Republican congressmen, led by Rep. Stevan Pearce of New Mexico, have the answer in a bill introduced last month: Forests are for logging. And to hell with everything else. The bill, H.R. 1202, is short and not-so-sweet. The meat of the bill is a single sentence: …
Read MoreThe Dark Side of the Boom
This week, in connection with the launch of our campaign Fracking Gone Wrong: Finding a Better Way, we’ve invited some of the movement’s most prominent advocates to guest blog. Today's guest blogger is Sharon Wilson, aka TXsharon, a blogger and an organizer with Texas Oil and Gas Accountability Project. Earthjustice has worked for years alongside EARTHWORKS OGAP in Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania and other drilling states.
Read MoreSalmon Means Jobs
President Barack Obama came to California on Wednesday on a fundraising blitz, and California’s salmon-dependent communities tried a blitz of their own to turn his attention towards protecting the Sacramento River king salmon run. San Francisco Bay Area commercial and sportfishing groups, restaurants and seafood distributors published a half page ad in the San Francisco…
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…
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