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The Latest by Jared Saylor

Campaign Director

Jared was the head coach of Earthjustice's advocacy campaign team from 2004 to 2014.

May 4, 2011

Asthma Awareness Month Begins with Sobering Reality

By Jared Saylor  /  Washington, D.C. Office

Asthma Awareness Month kicked off with grim news. The New York Times reports today that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that finds almost one in 12 Americans and one in 10 children are suffering the effects of asthma. The report showed that African-American children are most acutely affected, with nearly …

May 3, 2011

On World Asthma Day, a Visit to the White House

By Jared Saylor  /  Washington, D.C. Office

Alex Allred and her family are surrounded by cement. Not concrete, which is made from cement, but the big industrial facilities that crush and heat limestone to make cement. She lives in Midlothian, TX, an area known locally as “The Cement Capital of Texas,” a distinction that Alex and her family cannot appreciate. Her son …

April 13, 2011

Death by a Thousand (Budget) Cuts

By Jared Saylor  /  Washington, D.C. Office

We avoided a government shutdown with last minute deals that seemed to please both parties. But as they often say here in Washington, D.C. “the devil is in the details.” And in this case, it’s an awfully vicious budget slashing devil that has emerged in those details. According to the Wall Street Journal, (subscription required) …

April 12, 2011

Tr-Ash Talk: Coal Ash "Mr. Smiths" Go to Washington

By Jared Saylor  /  Washington, D.C. Office

Members of Congress are going to hear from coal ash activists this week. But it’s going to be more than just phone calls and emails; 45 citizens from nine states are flying to Washington D.C.  to tell their coal ash stories to elected representatives and administration officials. It’s been nearly a year since the Environmental …

April 5, 2011

Arsenic-Flavored Baby Food?

By Jared Saylor  /  Washington, D.C. Office

House GOP members have been attacking clean air standards by pumping the stalled budget bill up with “riders” that remove the agency’s ability to clean up mercury, dioxins, arsenic and a host of other toxic chemicals from power plants, cement kilns, incinerators and the like. But last week, a group called American Family Voices ran …

April 4, 2011

Not "Having Fun" In Bokoshe, OK

By Jared Saylor  /  Washington, D.C. Office

Last week, coal ash coverage went national with a fine segment on ABC World News that told the story of residents in Bokoshe, OK, a small town with a very big coal ash problem. Only 450 folks live in Bokoshe, but as reporter Jim Sciutto discovered, many of them either have cancer or know someone …

March 29, 2011

Tr-Ash Talk: Making Money, Having Fun

By Jared Saylor  /  Washington, D.C. Office

World News with Diane Sawyer to cover the story of the residents of Bokoshe, OK, and their fight against cancer, asthma and toxic coal ash

March 16, 2011

Some Utilities Support EPA Power Plant Clean Up

By Jared Saylor  /  Washington, D.C. Office

Today’s major announcement from the EPA to cut mercury and other toxic air pollution from hundreds of coal-fired power plants across the country was welcome news here at Earthjustice. For nearly 15 years, we’ve been fighting in the courts for cuts like these so that our communities and our children can breathe a little easier. Turns …

October 19, 2010

40 Years Later – Still A Breath of Fresh Air

By Jared Saylor

Clean Air Act continues to be a bulwark of environmental law

September 16, 2010

New Report—Coal Ash Linked To Cancer and Other Maladies

By Jared Saylor  /  Washington, D.C. Office

Coal’s waste is poisoning communities in 34 states