September 2, 2010 – 2:37 pm
EarthJustice.org First public hearing on EPA coal ash rule draws nationwide participation August 30, 2010 Washington, D.C. — Hundreds of concerned citizens are traveling to the Hyatt Regency in Arlington, Virginia on August 30 to urge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to pass strong, federally enforceable safeguards for coal ash, the hazardous remains left over [...]
August 31, 2010 – 11:07 am
Earthjustice.org 39 additional sites where coal ash is contaminating water are discovered, a total of 70 sites since February far exceed previous EPA estimates August 26, 2010 Washington, D.C. — Days before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) kicks off a series of regional hearings across the United States on whether and how to regulate [...]
August 28, 2010 – 9:05 pm
EarthJustice.org The names of toxic chemicals will no longer be kept secret from the public August 25, 2010 Washington, D.C. — Twenty-six health, labor and environmental organizations today filed detailed comments voicing resounding support for a long-overdue change in a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy that denied public access to information EPA receives from [...]
August 26, 2010 – 5:47 pm
University of California, Davis August 26, 2010 Researchers at the University of California, Davis, today report new information on the mechanism of carbon flow from the Earth’s oceans at the end of the last ice age, based on chemical analyses of the shells of tiny plankton fossils. “As we alter Earth’s climate by burning oil, [...]
August 25, 2010 – 6:36 pm
It’s All About the Costs By Tom Rooney Conservatives, let’s talk about energy. And why so many conservatives are so wrong — so liberal, even — on wind and solar energy. Let’s start with a recent editorial from the home of ‘free markets and free people,” the Wall Street Journal. Photovoltaic solar energy, quoth the [...]
August 24, 2010 – 3:10 pm
EarthJustice.org Most ships using older, dirtier water treatment systems August 23, 2010 Juneau, AK — The Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters, a project of Earth Island Institute, and Friends of the Earth took steps today to rein in the continued dumping of pollution from cruise ships into Alaskan waters. The groups, represented by Earthjustice, filed [...]
August 22, 2010 – 11:00 am
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100818154730.htm ScienceDaily (Aug. 19, 2010) — Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The Community Earth System Model (CESM) will be one of the primary climate models used for the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
August 21, 2010 – 9:06 am
EarthJustice.org August 20, 2010 San Francisco, CA — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt to strip protected status from wild steelhead trout in California’s Central Valley. A group of Central Valley irrigators had argued that ocean-going Central Valley steelhead population should be removed from the endangered species list based on their [...]
August 19, 2010 – 5:51 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817211052.htm ScienceDaily (Aug. 18, 2010) — A massive reduction in grasslands and the spread of forests may have been the primary cause of the decline of mammals such as the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino and cave lion, according to Durham University scientists. The findings of the new study challenge the theory that human beings were [...]
August 17, 2010 – 7:01 pm
EarthJustice.org Bans planting or sale of controversial crop August 16, 2010 San Francisco, CA — Federal district Judge Jeffrey White issued a ruling late Friday rescinding the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) approval of genetically engineered “Roundup Ready” sugar beets. The ruling came in a case brought by the Center for Food Safety, Organic [...]
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