EARTHJUSTICE E BRIEF MAI 2010

Home About Earthjustice Take Action Donate May 2010         At a Glance: In The News Trip MMS Suit Features unEARTHED The Stew In The Win Take Action Donate Let's Not Replay Gulf Oil Spill In The Arctic President Obama must step in to save fragile Arctic waters from oil drilling approved by a corrupted federal agency. The agency is spotlighted by presidential and congressional investigations into the Gulf oil spill disaster, says Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen. Read More | Comment Suing To Stop Big Easy: The MMS has made it easy for oil companies to drill in America's offshore waters. We are suing to protect the oil-ravaged Gulf of Mexico from at least 60 deepwater oil wells. Read More "It is actually easier to get a permit for an offshore oil well than for a hot dog stand." – Earthjustice Attorney David Guest Around the world of Earthjustice: Support Us Prevent the Next Gulf Disaster! The government green-lighted dozens of Gulf offshore drilling operations—similar to BP's Deepwater Horizon—without requiring them to be prepared for a major oil spill. We're going to court to overturn this illegal action and prevent another Gulf disaster. From Earthjustice's blog: Kathleen Sutcliffe Detox your spring cleaning. Learn how at Green Cleaning parties. More Climate Bill: Sweet For Coal, Poison For Us The long-awaited climate and energy bill draft has a number of big giveaways to polluters, including a surprise invitation to exempt dirty old power plants from clean-up requirements for soot, smog, and toxics such as mercury.  Read More Failing the Test: Coal-fired plants produce whopping amounts of coal ash laden with heavy metals toxic to our health. It's a whale of a problem that EPA must address with clear federal safeguards to protect communities and the environment. Advances won by Earthjustice and its allies: Neighbors Win Against Refinery In a long-running battle to keep a Chevron refinery from expanding to burn dirty oil, neighbors in Richmond, CA have won a court victory, declaring Chevron's environment impact report so deficient as to be illegal.  Read More Take Action Protect Colorado Roadless Forest from Bulldozers, Coal Mine! One of the country's biggest coal companies wants to turn a wildlife-rich Colorado roadless area into a network of bulldozed roads and drill holes. And the Forest Service is ready to OK the project! We need your help to save the Sunset Roadless Area. The Forest Service needs to hear from you. Less than 2 days remain for you to submit your comment! Take action today! Connect Join us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Watch us on YouTube! Earthjustice. Because the earth needs a good lawyer. Earthjustice is the nation's leading, non-profit law firm for the environment. To learn more about our work, visit our website, http://www.earthjustice.org. Photo Credits - Arctic polar bear (top): Polar bears are in a constant search for food as they navigate through the Arctic ice. They can smell food from tens of miles away. Beaufort Sea, Alaska. © Florian Schulz / www.visionsofthewild.com. Drilling rig: USGS. Blue whale illustration: Joshua Herbolsheimer. Chevron Richmond Refinery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/_imax/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Arctic wetlands (bottom): © Florian Schulz / www.visionsofthewild.com. ©2010 Earthjustice | 426 17th Street, 6th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612 | 510-550-6700 |