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Client Gershon Cohen On Cruise Ship Pollution

Gershon Cohen, project director of the Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters

Gershon Cohen, project director of the Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters, discusses his decade-long work to clean up the cruise ship industry, which routinely dumps wastewater pollution into national and international waterways. In June 2011, Earthjustice, on behalf of conservation groups like Cohen’s, successfully defended an Alaskan ballot initiative that called for cruise ships to stop discharging waste into Alaska’s pristine waters.

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August 17, 2012

The Environmental Beef With Industrial Ag

Attorney Marianne Engelman Lado discusses her work to defend North Carolina's right to regulate ammonia pollution from confined animal feeding operations, commonly called CAFOs.

March 15, 2011

Restoring Water Rights In Hawaii

Earthjustice attorneys Isaac Moriwake and Kapua Sproat discuss their decade-long fight to restore freshwater, taken by corporate water users, to the streams in which it rightfully belongs. The cases, which pit large companies against local residents, are often described as David and Goliath struggles and several of Earthjustice's victories have been precedent-setting.

March 28, 2013

Clean Water For Florida

Managing Attorney David Guest discusses Earthjustice's decades-long work to implement effective regulations to restore Florida's waterways and halt destructive practices and projects.

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