Avoiding Catastrophic Arctic Tipping Points

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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…

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And What About the Land?

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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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Where the Deer and the Antelope Played

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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…

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A New Leaf: Tackling Deforestation and Climate Change Together

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The world is now meeting in Poland to tackle global warming – and Earthjustice is there. Read our daily dispatches. Saturday was Forest Day at the climate negotiations in Poznan. Many people think of forests in terms of the CO2 that they absorb, or "sequester"– the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and Indonesia are known…

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Stakes are High at Climate Summit

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The world is now meeting in Poland to tackle global warming – and Earthjustice is there. Read our daily dispatches. More than 10,000 people have gathered in Pozna?, Poland this week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to advance negotiations that aim to set the world on a path toward a lower carbon future…

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Roadless Setback

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As faithful readers will recall, we’ve been reporting on the saga of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule for a very long time. Put in place at the end of the Clinton administration and immediately hamstrung by Bush operatives, the rule, which bans most roadbuilding and logging on roadless areas of the national forests, has bounced…

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Remembering Joan Bavaria

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Earthjustice Vice President for Litigation Patti Goldman offers these fond memories of Joan Bavaria. A bounty of acclaim has come in the passing of Joan Bavaria, who served eight years as an Earthjustice trustee. Many speak of her as their hero, a visionary, and a pioneer. For me, as for many at Earthjustice, Joan was an…

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