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Friday Finds: I Spy Climate Change
Secret agents discover climate change preparedness hole Military officials, CIA analysts and outside experts believe that the U.S. government is ill prepared to act on climate changes “that will threaten to bring instability to places of U.S national interest,” reports McClatchy Newspapers. Bureaucratic infighting and a lack of funding are just two reasons for this…
Read MoreThank You, Rep. Janice Schakowsky!
Last week, this time, Earthjustice was responding to news of a resolution introduced by Rep. John Carter (R-TX), seeking to block important clean air protections. Using the Congressional Review Act, Rep. Carter aims to undo protective health standards that will reduce mercury and other toxic emissions from cement plants. If successful, Rep. Carter’s resolution would…
Read MoreBiggest Mountaintop Removal Mine Vetoed – A Win for Appalachia
Coal mine finally stopped as EPA rejects Spruce No. 1 Mine
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: A is for Arsenic
(The following is the first in a weekly series of 50 upcoming Tr-Ash Talk blogs discussing the dangers of coal ash. Earthjustice hopes that by December 2011, the third anniversary of the TVA coal ash spill, the EPA will release a coal ash rule establishing federally enforceable regulations ensuring the safe disposal of this toxic waste.) Arsenic,…
Read MoreTaking Australia Beyond Zero Emissions
By now, we all know the refrain. Sure, politicians and pundits tell us, it would be swell to make the switch to clean energy, but such a move is infeasible at any time in the near future. No, they say, we must not stray from our well-hewn path of environmental destruction paved by fossil fuels.…
Read MoreOil Spill Commission Report Sounds Familiar—And Welcome
If you add up all the indicting statements, conclusions and recommendations in President Obama’s oil spill commission report—released today—you’d think outlaws are running the oil industry under charter from federal regulators. Which is no surprise to us at Earthjustice. Much of what the commission says is what we’ve been saying (in court, in Congress and…
Read MoreOcean Scientists Says There are More Fish To Catch…
Oceans scientist Steve Murawski has got some good news for our fishermen clients in New England: there may be more fish to catch next year. If you remember, many fishermen had to retire their nets because of too few fish. In an Associated Press report, Murawski heralds the end of overfishing as a result of a…
Read MoreCommission Blames Entire Oil Industry for Gulf Oil Spill
Since last April 20, when BP’s well rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sank, we’ve been referring to the ensuing oil flood as “the BP oil spill.” Today, as we analyze a preliminary report from the federal government’s oil spill commission, we are inclined to change our reference. Based on the report’s conclusions,…
Read MoreDay Three of Congress: Public Health Under Attack By Polluters
Only three days after Republicans took over the House of Representatives, Americans are at risk of losing critical, life-saving pollution protections. Since they took their seats in the 112th Congress, some elected representatives have made shooting down or slowing down these protective pollution controls their top priority. Today, House Republicans announced a resolution that seeks…
Read MoreRussian River Dredging Imperils Salmon
Coho and chinook salmon, along with their steelhead cousins, are making some promising headway in California’s North Coast streams. The San Francisco Chronicle carried a front-page story on Dec. 19 describing a higher-than-expected return of spawning coho in Lagunitas Creek. The same trend holds true for the Garcia and several other streams. This is not…
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