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It's No Secret: Power Plants Can Clean Up Their Dirty Ways
When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed last month to clean up the toxic air emissions of coal-fired power plants, it wasn’t a surprise. The date actually had been set for about a year, thanks to a court-ordered deadline won by Earthjustice and other groups. And for years prior to that deadline, a back-and-forth legal…
Read MoreWhy I Fight For Our Forests: Earthjustice's Rebecca Judd
National forests are the single largest source of clean drinking water in the United States, serving 124 million Americans. Rebecca Judd, legislative counsel for Earthjustice, based in Washington, D.C., discusses her work to protect forests.
Read MoreShut Down the Government So They Can Blow Up Mountains?
[Update: Amid hurried negotiations late Friday to avoid a government shutdown, House sources indicated that a possible deal has been reached to prevent weakening the government’s regulation of mountaintop removal mining and climate change emissions. The uncertainty of this deal makes it all the more important for citizens to contact the White House and their…
Read MoreThe U.S. Asthma Epidemic
People who suffer from asthma often say an attack feels like breathing through a pool of water or with a pillow covering their face. Unfortunately, millions of Americans know all too well what that’s like. In the United States, asthma is a bona fide public health epidemic: 17 million adults and 7 million children suffer…
Read MoreCourt 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.
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