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Healthy Oceans a Priority at Rio+20
Expert panel highlights urgency of building marine resilience to ocean acidification
Read MoreBill Will Protect Communities, Families From Mountaintop Removal
Big news today in our fight to end destructive mountaintop removal mining: 13 congressional leaders joined to introduce legislation to protect communities and families from the dangerous health effects of our nation’s most extreme form of coal mining—mountaintop removal mining. The Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act is the first federal legislation to address the human…
Read MoreWhen Paint Chips are Not the Only Danger
We all know the danger that resides in lead-laden paint chips peeling off the walls of old homes. It’s well understood that lead is poisonous and, even in small doses, can harm brain function and cause learning disabilities in children. Lead also is associated with impairment of the cardiovascular, reproductive, kidney and immune systems of…
Read MoreEnvironmental Groups Praise EPA’s First-Ever Clean Air Protections for Fracking
Agency takes important first step to protect air quality and public health
Read MoreMost Popular unEarthed Reads Of 2011
A Top 10 Countdown of the most read blogs from Unearthed.
Read MoreIn the Shadow of the Stacks
"It’s like hell. Living in hell," says Marti Blake, when asked about being neighbors with a coal-fired power plant. "It’s filthy, it’s dirty, it’s noisy, it’s unhealthy." For the past 21 years, Blake has lived across the street from the Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale, PA. A family situation left her trying to find a…
Read MoreAir Watch
Tom Frantz grew up in California’s central valley. The once sparse rural area is now the source of food for millions of Americans, and throughout his life Tom has seen the bucolic pastures of his childhood transform into modern-day mega-farms. When Tom’s daughter was 10 she started to develop migraines. Then Tom started having breathing…
Read MoreYellowstone Grizzly Bears Safer For Now
Yellowstone grizzly bears warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. So says the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which recently upheld a lower-court ruling that rejected a federal government effort to strip the bears of their protections. When the government “delisted” the bears in 2007, which stripped them of protections under the Endangered Species…
Read MoreStormy Waters: National Geographic’s David Doubilet, Part II
This is the sixth in a series of Q and As on Earthjustice’s oceans work, which works to prevent habitat loss and overfishing, as well as to reduce the impacts of climate change on the ocean. David Doubilet, an acclaimed underwater photographer for National Geographic, talks about his experiences as an underwater photographer and provides tips…
Read MoreStormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Steve Roady on Oceans
This is the first in a series of Q and As on Earthjustice’s oceans work, which works to prevent habitat loss and overfishing, as well as reduce the impacts of climate change on the ocean.
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