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(Editor’s Note: This is the fifth blog post in an ongoing series about proposed coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest.) Dr. Frank James is a member of Whatcom Docs, a group of medical doctors in Whatcom County, Wash., who are concerned about the health impacts of a proposed coal shipping terminal in Bellingham, Wash.…

Ask agencies to disclose 44 ‘high hazard’ sites

Background information on two of the most important Clean Water Act cases ever heard before the United States Supreme Court

Obama administration given key opportunity to rebuild salmon runs

Agency announcement comes just weeks after groups petition for protections

Lawsuit charges illegal delays in cleaning up parks’ haze pollution

Fed up with years of inaction by city and state, residents seek justice

Community, public health, and climate advocates cheer

Fishermen, tribes, and conservationists pleased that court recognizes need for changes to state and federal water project operations to better protect fish, jobs, and local communities

Air pollution loophole in federal court today

Listening to your doctor’s orders is usually a good idea. If your doctor prescribes you a medication and tells you to attend physical therapy, then you take the medication and you go to physical therapy. Now, imagine if 130 doctors all told you to do the same thing. You’d probably follow their orders, right? Well,…

Outlawed in homes and gardens, pesticide is still sprayed on food crops

Legal settlement forces agency to protect millions from dangerous parasites, toxic chemicals in their drinking water

Costs mount as congressional goals go unmet