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Stopping the Exit Wounds
Maybe it’s a good thing that Bush has kept Earthjustice so busy these last eight years, fending off unrelenting assaults on the environment. The experience is proving invaluable as we face, in these final weeks of the administration, a frantic effort to roll back some of the nation’s most significant protections. We also are encountering…
Read MoreTrouble in Paradise
We tend to think of ships as an environmentally friendly way to travel and transport goods. Measured by miles per gallon per a given amount of weight, they can’t be beat. There’s the not-so-little problem of air pollution from ships docked at various ports, of course, and Earthjustice is working with Friends of the Earth…
Read MoreGreening Your Gadgets
It’s a conundrum: how can you reduce your carbon footprint without giving up all of your nifty electronic gadgets? And, if this isn’t your conundrum, it’s surely your spouse’s, or your kid’s or your cousin’s, right? Cell phones, iPods, PCs, laptops, TVs, DVDs, VCRs, DVRs, GPSs, radios, stereos, and home entertainment systems are just a…
Read MoreFinal Postcard From Poznan
At the just-concluded U.N. climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland, Earthjustice attorneys Martin Wagner and Erika Rosenthal advocated for rapid action to reduce emissions of black carbon, now considered one of the most effective strategies to slow near-term global and Arctic warming. This could prevent catastrophic, irreversible tipping points such as the melting of Arctic sea…
Read MoreFlorida Tackles Global Warming
With a single vote on Dec. 2, Florida took real leadership in the fight against global warming. After years of head-in-the-sand policy making, this is a welcome change. We have Gov. Charlie Crist to thank: he proposed that Florida adopt clean car standards patterned after those in California. And on Dec. 2, after six hours…
Read MoreYes, We Can.
A miracle, just take a look around: this inescapable earth. – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel Laureate Yes, we can. As Martin wrote earlier in the week, the negotiations that just concluded in Poznan fell short of expectations. But take heart – the talks did deliver on the fundamental objective of providing a negotiation…
Read MoreAvoiding Catastrophic Arctic Tipping Points
The world is now meeting in Poland to tackle global warming – and Earthjustice is there. Read our daily dispatches. The Federated States of Micronesia, one of the leading voices of the Alliance of Small Island States – countries whose very existence are threatened by global warming-induced sea level rise – has called on the…
Read MoreShared (Di)vision
The world is now meeting in Poland to tackle global warming
Read MoreWhere the Deer and the Antelope Played
Motorists heading to Colorado ski resorts are being confronted with images of the state not found in tourist brochures: Pollution-spewing oil and gas rigs looming over wildlife habitat, ranchland and neighborhoods. The billboards are part of a campaign by the Colorado Environmental Coalition to tell Coloradans and out-of-state visitors that there’s a dark side to…
Read MoreAnd What About the Land?
Yes, one knows that the economy and the climate are jobs one through ten, but I can’t help but be a tiny bit concerned that the new Obama administration still lacks a Secretary of the Interior, a Secretary of Agriculture, a Secretary of Energy, an Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and a Chairman of…
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