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"It really sucks for us how long we have to wait before we build things."
-- Developers' lobbyist in support of Bush attack on Endangered Species Act |
NEWS ALERT:Earthjustice wins major victory as federal appeals court says industrial polluters must measure dangerous emissions.
Pika: First global warming victim? Chased by global warming to the highest mountain peaks, the tiny American pika has nowhere to go but extinct, warns Earthjustice in lawsuits aimed at saving the "boulder bunny." See rare video of the pika.
Navajos in "civil war" over coal plantA kind of civil war over a proposed coal-fired power plant is pitting Navajo tribal members against their governing council in the Four Corners region of New Mexico. The issue is money vs health and heritage. Earthjustice brought the long-simmering fight to a head this month by challenging the monster plant's air permit. |
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Angry Judge Torpedoes Roadless Rule Showing scorn and ire, a federal district court judge in Wyoming has again taken away roadless protection for 50 million acres of national forest. It's just the latest twist in a long and winding tale that Tom Turner has written a book about. |
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 Poor Management Threatens SoCal ForestsFour national forests in Southern California are being torn up for lack of proper management, conservation groups led by Earthjustice announced in August as they filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service. The fault lies with land management plans, prepared by the agency in 2005, that do little to protect against harmful activities, including roads, off-road vehicles, power lines, oil and gas, logging, and grazing.
 EPA Reversed: Pesticides Do Harm SalmonThree common pesticides are increasing the chance of extinction for West Coast salmon, according to a draft biological opinion just released by the National Marine Fisheries Service. The report contradicts earlier assurance by the Environmental Protection Agency that the three poisons pose minimal harm to threatened or endangered salmon. Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen says this illustrates why the Endangered Species Act must not be weakened by a Bush administration proposal.
 Judge Tosses County Claim To Death ValleyLizards must be dancing in the desert, proclaimed one environmentalist after a federal judge stopped Inyo County from seizing rights-of-way in remote roadless areas of Death Valley National Park. The county waited too long to assert its claim on three areas, the judge said. The decision will protect petroglyphs and habitat for bighorn sheep, said Ted Zukoski, the Earthjustice attorney who intervened in the case on behalf of various conservation groups.
 Groups Say Whoa! To Coal-Liquid Fuel PlansConservation groups including Earthjustice are urging Wyoming's environmental agency to slow down and reconsider an air permit allowing construction of a plant that would mine coal and turn it into liquid fuel. Aside from the fact that the plant would emit health-threatening pollutants across the region and degrade air quality at nearby wilderness and park areas, the liquid coal fuel emits twice as much global warming pollution as conventional fuels.
 Warning to EPA: Tackle Emissions Or ElseThe Environmental Protection Agency has foot-dragged long enough on setting emissions standards for ships and aircraft, Earthjustice warned the agency in a formal notice of intent to sue. Along with eight states and a host of environmental organizations, Earthjustice is demanding the EPA follow a Supreme Court order to determine greenhouse impacts of the craft. The court's deadline is long past.
 Salmon-saving Plan Due In a WeekNext week -- on Aug. 29 -- California water managers must tell a federal judge how they are going to operate the state's water supply system without driving salmon and steelhead into extinction. In what amounts to an emergency order, Judge Oliver Wanger set the deadline after hearing dire testimony about the threat posed by pumping operations in the San Francisco Bay Delta, said Earthjustice attorney Mike Sherwood, who has been legally shepherding the salmon for decades. Earlier, the judge had agreed with conservation groups that three runs of salmon and steelhead are at risk of extinction and that operations of the mammoth Central Valley Project and State Water Project are increasing the risk.
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 Louisiana Town Thwarts Nuclear "Lynching"Tom Turner recounts a David-and-Goliath struggle between impoverished African-Americans in rural Louisiana and a mighty international consortium of government agencies and private companies bent on siting a uranium enrichment plant in their midst.
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