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June 16, 2009 | Article

Feds Release Chilling Climate Change Report

It's as close as our own backyards, as far away as the Arctic. It's affecting birds, boys, butterflies and bugs. Creeks are feeling it, and the oceans, too. It's here, it's now, and mostly it's caused by humans.

It's global warming and we have to take immediate, powerful counter measures to prevent massive planet-wide consequences, warns the federal government in a chilling report just released today.

April 30, 2009 | Article

Still Gasping for Clean Air in San Joaquin Valley

Growing up in California's San Joaquin Valley, we spent our summer days at the community swimming pool and on the soccer field. Playing outside was one of the joys of growing up in a region where the days are warm, the grass is green and the sky is clear.

These days, elementary schools in the valley fly color-coded flags to alert parents of "bad air days" when their children should be kept indoors. Childhood fun in the valley is not what it used to be.

April 7, 2008 | Article

But It's a Dry Heat!

Global warming, by definition, impacts the entire planet. But warming will likely have differing impacts on different areas. What does that mean for the climate of the American West?

A report prepared by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council last month boiled the answer down to three words: hotter and drier.

March 12, 2008 | Article

Profiles in … Cowardice?

Global warming is clearly one of the pre-eminent environmental challenges of our time. Yet, when some federal regulators are presented with an opportunity to meet the challenge, they prefer to do nothing.

March 3, 2008 | Article

Wyoming Gags on Natural Gas

The movie "Three Kings" (1999), which follows a trio of American soldiers involved in the first Gulf War, contains an apt, if heavy-handed, metaphor about America's dependence on oil: an Iraqi torturer forces the black goo down an American prisoner's throat, making him gag.

January 23, 2008 | Case

Saving Colorado’s HD Mountains from Damaging Drilling

Earthjustice opposed drilling plans that would sacrifice old-growth forest and wildlife habitat in one of the last remaining lowland roadless areas in Colorado.

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