Monday Reads: The Wildlife Meets Music Edition

By Shirley Hao | February 22, 2011 | Comments Off on Monday Reads: The Wildlife Meets Music Edition

News headlines last week prominently featured both music (the Grammy Awards rolled out their red carpet) and the environment (the GOP’s proposed spending legislation steamrolled through the House, nearly crushed under the weight of riders and amendments seeking to rollback many environmental and public health gains of the past several years). What readers may not…

Read More

'Keep Your Hands Off My Clean Air Act Standards'

By Sam Edmondson | February 4, 2011 | Comments Off on 'Keep Your Hands Off My Clean Air Act Standards'

Alex Allred is a wife, mother of three, author, former Olympic bobsledder (!), and passionate advocate for clean air. Years ago, she and her family moved to Midlothian, Texas. Said Allred, “We moved here partly because we thought it would be a great place to raise our three kids.” Shortly after the move, however, Alex’s…

Read More

Saying Goodbye to a Hero and Pledging to Fight Harder

By Liz Judge | January 4, 2011 | Comments Off on Saying Goodbye to a Hero and Pledging to Fight Harder

Last night we lost a true hero, Judy Bonds of Marfork, West Virginia. Judy—the executive director of Coal River Mountain Watch, Goldman Prize recipient, and friend and partner of Earthjustice—was a courageous leader in the fight to protect Americans and future generations from the poisonous pollution and destruction of mountaintop removal mining. She was an…

Read More