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Human Rights, or Human Wrongs?
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 MoreA New Leaf: Tackling Deforestation and Climate Change Together
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…
Read MoreNo Time to Waste
The world is now meeting in Poland to tackle global warming
Read MoreStakes are High at Climate Summit
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…
Read MoreRoadless Setback
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…
Read MoreRemembering Joan Bavaria
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…
Read MoreEncouraging Words
The Guardian, over there across the pond, has just published a splendid piece that should help put to rest some misconceptions about the ease, expense, and possibility of converting the world to a sustanable/green/you name it energy system. The writer is Chris Goodall, author of Ten Technologies to Save the Planet. He lays it all out…
Read MoreBeetle battle: NY Times Misses Beetle / Warming Link
One of the good things about the Web is that it increases accountability. Those questioning the so-called "mainstream media" (MSM) don’t have to hope that a stingy editor will find a few column inches to publish an op-ed to have their views heard. So while I’m a regular reader of The New York Times, I was happy…
Read MoreTurkeys and Lame Ducks
Joe Klein (author of Primary Colors, the scathing send-up of the Clinton years) gives President Bush quite a valedictory send-off today in the pages of TIME magazine. Besides distaste for President Bush’s "intellectual laziness," Klein lists a number of environmental actions that could be taken now in the final weeks of the Bush administration. Sadly, none…
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