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April 6, 2011

Why I Fight for Our Forests: Earthjustice's Tom Waldo

By Liz Judge  /  Alaska Office, Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

Protecting our national forests is essential for the future of our nation. Tom Waldo, who joined Earthjustice in 1989 and is a staff attorney in the Juneau, Alaska office, discusses his work protecting our forests.

April 5, 2011

Why I Fight For Our Forests: Earthjustice's Kristen Boyles

By Liz Judge  /  Northwest Office, Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

Q & As with attorney Kristen Boyles, who works to protect our nation's forests and their critical natural resources and wildlife.

March 30, 2011

Care About Climate Change, Clean Air? Call Your Senators!

By Liz Judge  /  Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

The Senate votes tomorrow on four pieces of legislation that all aim to block or delay Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) action to reduce the carbon dioxide pollution of the nation’s biggest polluters. These polluters have convinced their friends in Congress to author a wave of bills exempting them from strong air pollution limits—they are the …

March 16, 2011

Cleaning Up Biggest Polluters – Will Congress Have Our Backs?

By Liz Judge  /  Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

As I write this, the Senate is debating an amendment to a small business bill that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from setting limits on carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s biggest polluters. We’ve been making a lot of noise about this effort to cripple the EPA and obstruct health- and science-based standards for climate …

March 11, 2011

Our Climate Reality and Our Congressional Deniers

By Liz Judge  /  Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

On Tuesday, in a hearing in the House, representatives wrestled over whether they should accept the volumes of science produced by every major U.S. scientific and research institution that say that climate change is happening and our industrial carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to it. Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Ed Markey (D-MA), Bobby Rush (D-IL), …

March 3, 2011

The New Majority: We Can't Go Backwards Fast Enough!

By Liz Judge  /  Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

“Doh!” should be the motto of the new majority in the House, but here’s one from House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) that might work as well: “The New Majority – Plasticware Is Back.” Boehner tweeted this, or should I say taunted this, on Monday, boasting about a move orchestrated by him and his GOP colleagues in …

February 18, 2011

Congress v. The Environment: The House Is On Fire

By Liz Judge  /  Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

As I write this, members of the House of Representatives continue to debate and move their way through votes on hundreds of amendments to the chamber’s government spending bill. The voting and debate has been a marathon process, stretching from morning through late at night for the last three days, and looks to carry on …

February 11, 2011

Are National Forests and Drinking Water Supplies in Peril?

By Liz Judge  /  Northwest Office, Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

President Obama’s draft plan for national forests and grasslands is well-intentioned, but lacks real protective measures that will guarantee accountability.

February 3, 2011

Congress V. The Environment: Who Can We Trust?

By Liz Judge  /  Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

Early last evening, Reps. Fred Upton and Ed Whitfield, along with Sen. James Inhofe, released a draft of the latest bill in Congress taking aim at air pollution protections. This wasn’t a surprise, as they’ve been talking to press about their toils on legislation that would reverse current limits on carbon dioxide pollution. They are …

January 28, 2011

Congress v. The Environment: The Attack Begins

By Liz Judge  /  Policy and Legislation Team & Washington, D.C. Office

(A powerful faction in the new Congress has allied with industry to weaken our nation’s most basic environmental laws. Earthjustice will report on this expected barrage of legislative attacks as they occur.) Today, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced an offensively overreaching “Dirty Air Act” that is the first of many anticipated attempts to make Congress the …