Kari Birdseye, Author at Earthjustice

August 31, 2012

Feds Betray Wyoming Wolves

By Kari Birdseye / Northern Rockies Office

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chose a blue moon to announce the delisting of the gray wolf in Wyoming, which will take effect in one month. Is it because a blue moon is also called the “betrayer moon,” or perhaps it’s just before a holiday weekend and they are hoping most won’t notice? By …

July 18, 2012

What Happens Next to Shell's Ship that Ran Ashore?

By Kari Birdseye / Alaska Office

U.S. Coast Guard divers are now on the way to Dutch Harbor, Alaska to inspect the 571-foot drill rig Noble Discoverer

July 6, 2012

Protecting the Arctic by Doing Their Job

By Kari Birdseye / Alaska Office

A patriotic tale of two examples of those who didn't take the Fourth of July off as a holiday.

May 30, 2012

Energy Giant Ditches Coal Plant Retrofit

By Kari Birdseye / Northeast Office

She’s big, dirty and 42-years old—that’s old in power plant years. They call her Big Sandy in Kentucky and she has two and a half years to clean up her act until she’s either shut down or replaced with newer, cleaner energy resources. Right now, she burns millions of tons of coal each year, equaling …

May 18, 2012

An Ode to Journey (OR7): Don't Stop Believing

By Kari Birdseye / California Office

California’s only “official” gray wolf runs with the coyotes

April 12, 2012

Lloyd’s Urges Caution In The Arctic

By Kari Birdseye

The Obama administration is all ears—deaf ones—when it comes to dire warnings about drilling in the Arctic made by scientists, policymakers, international figures and celebrities. The latest caution came today from the world’s largest and oldest insurance market, Lloyd’s of London, which warned that offshore drilling in the Arctic would “constitute a unique and hard-to-manage …

February 3, 2012

Whales and Wolves: The Hollywood Versions

By Kari Birdseye / Alaska Office & Northern Rockies Office

The uplifting movie Big Miracle, opening this weekend, has the power to educate people across the country about America’s Arctic Ocean, along with the people and wildlife that call it home. This is the same place Royal Dutch Shell is planning to drill in our Arctic waters this summer—with no viable method to clean up …

January 18, 2012

More Than Cranes Are Whooping Over the Keystone Pipeline XL Decision

By Kari Birdseye / International Program

The President made the right decision on the Keystone pipeline XL today. House Republicans forced the arbitrary deadline of February 21 and there was really only one legal way to answer. Since the State Department hasn’t finished its environmental review of the pipeline and requests for alternative routes that bypass sensitive lands and habitats are …

January 3, 2012

Pikas Can Run But Not Hide From Climate Change

By Kari Birdseye / California Office

You’re adorable but you will die if the temperature rises much above 80°F. So climate change is a big deal in your world, which just happens to be high mountain peaks. Who are you? You are the American pika, a small member of the rabbit family that the California Dept. of Fish and Game has …

November 11, 2011

New Jersey Rally Protests Dirty Energy Power Lines

By Kari Birdseye / Northeast Office

There was more than the usual lurking going on Thursday afternoon in Lurker Park in East Hanover, New Jersey. More than 50 people turned out to protest the Obama administration’s fast-tracking of a proposed electrical power line that would bring coal-fired power to New Jersey. The protesters say we should be using less, not more, coal-fired …

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