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Court Supports Less Sulfur Dioxide In Our Air
Amid the wrangling back and forth in Congress over our clean air protections, there is some good news for our air. This morning the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an effort from industry groups and allied states to suspend an EPA rule adopted last June that will limit dangerous sulfur dioxide emissions from power…
Read MoreIdeologists Could Force Fed. Government Shutdown
As the threat of a total federal government shutdown hangs over the country, leaders in Congress and the White House continue eleventh-hour emergency negotiations to reach a compromise before time runs out on keeping our government funded and averting a costly and potentially disastrous government shutdown. According to press reports this morning, the thing holding…
Read MoreSenate Tramples Four Dirty Air Acts
The Senate just voted to reject four—count ’em 1-2-3-4—bad amendments that would strangle and block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from being able to limit dangerous carbon dioxide pollution from the nation’s biggest polluters. These Dirty Air Acts went down in the upper chamber today because enough of the Senate still obviously believes that the well-being,…
Read MoreWhy I Fight for Our Forests: Earthjustice's Tom Waldo
Protecting our national forests is essential for the future of our nation. Tom Waldo, who joined Earthjustice in 1989 and is a staff attorney in the Juneau, Alaska office, discusses his work protecting our forests.
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: Mapping Environmental Injustice
From South Carolina to Alabama and all across the country, coal ash—which can leach dangerous toxic chemicals like arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury, and selenium into groundwater—is often stockpiled in low-income communities. Coal ash presents risks of both catastrophic spills, like the 2008 TVA coal ash disaster, and more common dangers, like pollution of groundwater used…
Read MoreWhy I Fight For Our Forests: Earthjustice's Kristen Boyles
Q & As with attorney Kristen Boyles, who works to protect our nation's forests and their critical natural resources and wildlife.
Read MoreArsenic-Flavored Baby Food?
House GOP members have been attacking clean air standards by pumping the stalled budget bill up with “riders” that remove the agency’s ability to clean up mercury, dioxins, arsenic and a host of other toxic chemicals from power plants, cement kilns, incinerators and the like. But last week, a group called American Family Voices ran…
Read MoreMonday Reads: The Lost Shipping Container Edition
A sunken steel behemoth provides refuge and life … or not?
Read MoreNot "Having Fun" In Bokoshe, OK
Last week, coal ash coverage went national with a fine segment on ABC World News that told the story of residents in Bokoshe, OK, a small town with a very big coal ash problem. Only 450 folks live in Bokoshe, but as reporter Jim Sciutto discovered, many of them either have cancer or know someone…
Read MoreFriday Finds: Toilet Talk
California flushes carbon emissions down the toilet The California Energy Commission has its head in the toilet, but surprisingly, that’s a good thing. Human waste is a huge pollution problem in the U.S. In fact, Californians alone produced 661,000 dry metric tons of biosolids in 2009. But instead of getting rid of the waste by…
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