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MOTHER JONES ECONUNDRUMS: Hawaii Just Banned 70 Percent of Common Sunscreens & MORE 9JUL18

THIS WEEK'S ECONUNDRUM

Hawaii Just Banned 70 Percent of Common Sunscreens For a really good reason. MORE ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH COVERAGE Republicans in Congress Sure Seem Happy Not to Have to Defend Scott Pruitt Anymore It's Barely July and This Wildfire Season Already Looks Terrifying The Dirty Little Secret Behind "Clean Energy" Wood Pellets MORE FROM MOJO A Lawyer Met With 11 Separated Parents in One Day. What She Heard Is Terrifying. Trump Broke Up Families to Deter Illegal Immigration. New Numbers Show That Plan Has Failed.

MUSIC VIDEO Island Style - 'Oiwi E | Song Across Hawai'i | Playing For Change Collaboration 25SEP17

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Island Style - 'Oiwi E | Song Across Hawai'i | Playing For Change Collaboration

Playing For Change

Published on Sep 25, 2017

Jack Johnson and dozens of artists joined more than 1,000 Hawai’i keiki (children) in this beautiful medley. Weʻre excited to present our 2nd ʻSong Across Hawaiʻiʻ collaboration with Hawaiian nonprofit @Mana Maoli, filmed across many breathtaking Hawaii locations as part of their #ManaMele project, which features a Music & Multimedia Academy and Solar Mobile Studio with programs in more than a dozen schools.

Turn it up and let the music bring in the light! To learn more about this medley and Mana Mele, follow Mana Maoli on FB & IG, and visit manamele.org, where you can get a personal copy of this video for a donation of any amount. Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music, born from the shared belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. Our primary focus is to record and film musicians performing in their natural environments and combine their talents and cultural power in innovative videos we call Songs Around The World. Creating these videos motivated us to form the Playing For Change Band—a tangible, traveling representation of our mission, featuring musicians met along our journey, and establish the Playing For Change Foundation—a separate 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to building music and art schools for children around the world. Through these efforts, we aim to create hope and inspiration for the future of our planet. JOIN THE MOVEMENT Subscribe to our newsletter: www.bit.ly/1x9CAfJ Become a Member: https://playingforchange.com/members/ https://www.facebook.com/PlayingForCh... https://twitter.com/playing4change http://instagram.com/playing4change To learn more about the work of the PFC Foundation, visit http://www.playingforchange.org

Sanders Expected to Win Alaska, Hawaii & Washington Caucuses Saturday 25MAR16

BERNIE SANDERS is expected to win the Democratic primaries being held today in Washington, Hawaii and Alaska. The campaign for the Democratic nominee for president is not over, far from it actually, and the campaigning will continue right up to the convention in Philadelphia. From +Democracy Now! and +NPR 

Sanders Expected to Win Alaska, Hawaii & Washington Caucuses Saturday

In news from the presidential campaign trail, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to win the Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state caucuses on Saturday. This comes after Sanders won the Democratic contests in Utah and Idaho by a wide margin on Tuesday, while his contender, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, won the primary in Arizona. The Arizona contest was marked by massive five-hour lines and a shortage of ballots at many polling stations.

Western Tuesday: Sanders And Cruz Claim Victories — But Not Arizona

Democratic Results

ARIZONA99.5% IN

Clinton	57.6%
Sanders	40.0%

IDAHO100.0% IN

Sanders	78.0%
Clinton	21.2%

UTAH99.1% IN

Sanders	79.3%
Clinton	20.3%

Republican Results

ARIZONA99.5% IN

Trump	47.1%
Cruz	24.9%
Kasich	10.0%

UTAH88.7% IN

Cruz	69.2%
Kasich	16.8%
Trump	14.0%

Polls close at 9 and 10 p.m. EDT in Arizona, 9 p.m. EDT in Idaho, and 10:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. EDT in Utah.

On the Democratic side, Sanders won big victories in the Utah and Idaho caucuses, but the much smaller prizes could end up netting him roughly the same number of delegates Clinton will get from her Arizona win.

Despite his loss in Arizona, Sanders pointed to the heavy turnout the night's contests had sparked and argued he had come a long way in closing the gap with Clinton, given the deficit he started with last year. There was heavy turnout in both Idaho and Utah, where long lines delayed the caucuses' start.

"I am enormously grateful to the people of Utah and Idaho for the tremendous voter turnouts that gave us victories with extremely large margins," Sanders said in a statement early Wednesday morning. "The impressive numbers of young people and working-class people who participated in the process are exactly what the political revolution is all about. These decisive victories in Idaho and Utah give me confidence that we will continue to win major victories in the coming contests."

Democrats will turn their attention next to Saturday contests in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state.

EARTHJUSTICE E.BRIEF OKT 2014

I have been a supporter of +Earthjustice for years and am thankful for the work they do. Here's their October 2014 eBrief with updates on issues and campaigns, victories and new environmental concerns.....

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After 150 Years, Maui’s Streams Flow Again Private corporations that diverted Maui’s streams for more than 150 years agreed to finally restore water flows—courtesy of an Earthjustice campaign. READ MORE

Climate Change Threatens Rare Wolverines The famously feisty creature will take on grizzly bears in a fight, but its biggest threat now is the acute loss of habitat due to receding snow pack in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming and northeast Oregon. READ MORE

WOLVERINES NEED LAWYERS TOO We’re fighting in court to save the last 300 wolverines in the lower 48! Join our fight. DONATE NOW

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	Havasupai Celebrate Ban on New Uranium Mining A million acres of Grand Canyon watershed is less threatened by uranium poisoning, thanks to a court order upholding a 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims. READ MORE
Other recent court victories include: Federal court paves the way for better monitoring of Alaska's industrial groundfishing fleet. Spruce No. 1 Mine—one of the most destructive mountaintop removal mines ever proposed in Appalachia—won’t be allowed to destroy more streams or nearby communities.

  NEWS

EPA Approves Deadly New Herbicide Without bothering to consult the expert agencies about the herbicide’s effects on endangered plants and animals, the EPA is giving the green light to massive increases in the use of 2,4-D, one of the ingredients in ‘Agent Orange.’ READ MORE

Acting to Sidetrack Explosive Trains Earthjustice is suing to prevent a nightmare scenario of mile-long trains—filled with explosive crude oil—rumbling daily into California’s Central Valley. READ MORE

These Aspens Should Tremble Aspens have reason to quake in some roadless areas of Colorado, where the Forest Service is pushing major fossil fuel development, along with miles of scarring roads. READ MORE

A Nation Poisoned by Incinerators When toxic metals like mercury and cadmium poison your favorite lake, it’s time to regulate the local industrial incinerator. Yet the EPA has allowed thousands of such polluting incinerators across the nation to continue fouling our waters. READ MORE

  SPOTLIGHT

The Toxic Secret of California's Salad Bowl The only thing that stands between Maria Aguilara and dangerous pesticides is her scarf. Read her story and others to learn the realities of working in farm fields in the U.S. and why pesticide exposure protections need to be strengthened. READ MORE

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Act Now on Climate Power plants are the single largest source of carbon emissions. Tell the EPA it's time carbon polluters cleaned up their act. TAKE ACTION

Everyone Has the Right to a Healthy Environment Vice President of Litigation for Healthy Communities Lisa Garcia discusses how Earthjustice is fighting to protect families and communities from pollution-caused health risks they confront on a daily basis. LISTEN

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EARTHJUSTICE E BRIEF 17FEB11

UPDATES and stories on the gop tea-bagger attacks on the environment in Congress, GMO crops, coal ash, coal power in Kansas, loggerhead turtles, shell oil and Arctic drilling, and more....

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At a Glance: In The News Congress v. Environment Features Stew In The Win "The Republican attack on EPA is radically unpopular with voters across parties and demographics." -GRIST assessment of nationwide survey Congress v. The Environment   Breaking News...   Today, a grim, new faction in the House of Representatives is bringing to a vote numerous attacks on the laws that protect our nation's water, air, natural resources, wildlife and health. Their actions could drive endangered wolves and salmon into extinction, and would cripple the Environmental Protection Agency's mission to protect us from lethal pollutants and climate change consequences. There are abundant handouts for industrial polluters. Read what is at stake by Earthjustice Vice President of Litigation Patti Goldman. Also, read these related blog posts: Support Us Environmental Protections Under Attack!Help Earthjustice defend and enforce strong environmental protections in 2011. Donate! David Guest: Congressman befriends Fla's toxic slime. Read The Zuke: U-turn in Rockies to bad old days. Read Tr-Ash Talk: Friends of toxic coal ash emerge in Congress. (Latest in a series on the dangers of coal ash.)  Read

Around the world of Earthjustice: Fired And Fired Up Over Sunflower Speaking out for the first time, former head of Kansas Department of Health and Environment says he didn't resign—he was removed because of his refusal to approve the dirty, controversial Sunflower coal-fired power plant.  Read More Fight Continues Over Genetically Engineered Beets Earthjustice is leading a coalition of farmers and conservation groups in court, challenging the USDA's decision to allow commercial growing of Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" genetically engineered sugar beets. The USDA's action is in defiance of a previous court ruling.  Read More. Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Two Outspoken Oscar Nominees It's Oscar season and Earthjustice is rolling out the red carpet for Academy Award nominees Mark Ruffalo and GASLAND director Josh Fox—travelling to our nation's capitol today to speak out on the dangers of the gas drilling technique known as fracking.  Read more

Earthjustice and its allies won advances—or outright victories—across a broad front: Shell Shelves Arctic Seas Drilling Earthjustice's work has helped stop Shell Oil from drilling this summer in fragile offshore waters of the Arctic seas. Shell threw in the towel, acknowledging problems in meeting environmental considerations.  Read More ORVs Bog Down In Montana, Idaho Don't expect to hop on your off-road vehicle and churn through protected areas in Idaho and Montana. A federal judge upheld a ban on ORVs in the spectacular Badger-Two Medicine region of northern Montana's Rocky Mountain Front.  Read More In Idaho, another federal judge struck down the Salmon-Challis National Forest's Travel Management Plan, which would have allowed ORV use on hundreds of miles of trails.  Read More CO Drilling Rules Survive Lawsuit Representatives of the Colorado oil and gas industry have abandoned their lawsuit challenging the state's tough new rules governing oil and gas development. Earthjustice had intervened in opposition to the suit.  Read More "Nemo's" Turtles Win Protection Loggerhead turtles—the starring species in Finding Nemo—are themselves being saved from lethal long-line fishing techniques off Hawaii. A federal lawsuit, filed on behalf of conservation groups by Earthjustice, has resulted in an agreement to sharply reduce the number of loggerheads caught accidentally by the longline fleet.  Read More Makua Rescued From Explosives Artillery shells and mortars will no longer rain down on biologically rich Makua on O'ahu—thanks to a decision by the Army after 12 years of Earthjustice legal pressure. Live-fire training had threatened dozens of species with extinction.  Read More

The Beginnings of Earthjustice Forty years ago, attorneys Phil Berry, Fred Fisher and Don Harris pooled their collective outrage over environmental degradation and became the founding members of Earthjustice. Hear their story of how it all began in this short video.  Watch Video. "We just got mad!" – Phil Berry, Earthjustice Co-Founder, recalls the spark that launched Earthjustice.

Take Action The Right to Breathe Declaration. Clean air should be a fundamental right. Every year, many Americans young and old get sick because of air pollution. Thousands die. But our bodies don't have to be the dumping ground for dirty industries. We will raise our voices to demand immediate action, because every American has the right to breathe. Sign the Declaration. Connect Join us: Facebook! Follow us: Twitter! Watch us: 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 - 'Shell Shelves Arctic Seas Drilling': A large lead develops north of Point Hope in the Chukchi Sea during sea ice breakup in late May. Chukchi Sea, Alaska. Credit: Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com. ©2011 Earthjustice | 426 17th Street, 6th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612 | 510-550-6700 | enews@earthjustice.org