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

  IN THE WIN COLUMN

	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

  HOW YOU CAN HELP

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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Tell President Obama: Stop the massive mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia 27APR12

THE battle to stop the Spruce Mine in W Virginia continues pitting residents and environmentalist against the money of big coal. Even if you have participated before please do so again as the President and our other elected leaders and the EPA need to keep hearing from us until they do the right thing and permanently stop Spruce Mine and end mountaintop removal mining! For more on this see my earlier postSupport EPA veto of Spruce No. 1 mine (CRMW) & Keep Up The Fight To Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining (EARTHJUSTICE) 31MAR12 & Spruce No. 1 Mine (from EPA) 18MAI10
http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/support-epa-veto-of-spruce-no-1-mine.html From Credo Action....

Clicking here will automatically add your name to this petition to the White House Council on Environmental Quality: "President Obama has the power to stop the destruction at the Spruce Mine in West Virginia. Support EPA's veto of the Spruce Mine and direct the Army Corps of Engineers to revoke the mine's permit." Automatically add your name: Learn more about this campaign Tell President Obama: Protect West Virginia froma massive mountaintop removal mine. Arch Coal is moving forward with the largest mountaintop removal coal mining operation in West Virginia's history — but President Obama's White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has the power to step in and block this disastrous project. The Environmental Protection Agency had already vetoed a permit for the Spruce Mine, but last month, a federal judge overruled the agency paving the way for the project.1 The court's decision means that the destruction of mountains and burying of streams could begin very soon — unless the Council on Environmental Quality steps in. We need activists from all over the country to let President Obama know we're watching this decision. Tell the Council on Environmental Quality: Protect West Virginia from mountaintop removal at the Spruce Mine. Click hereto automatically sign the petition. In situations where agencies within the federal government differ on environmental matters, it is the role of the Council on Environmental Quality to weigh in and resolve the matter. And by directing the Army Corps of Engineers to revoke the Spruce Mine permit, the CEQ can stop this highly polluting and disastrous project once and for all. Mountaintop removal mining is a process in which coal companies use explosives to literally blow the tops off of the mountains, dumping the leftover rocks and dirt into streams and valleys below. The practice is linked with high mortality rates, contaminated drinking water and increased flooding, among other problems.2 EPA's veto of the permit for expanded mountaintop removal mining at the Big Spruce Mine in Logan County was the right decision for public health and the environment, but unless the Council on Environmental Quality steps in, this massive mine will soon begin operations. Appalachian states like West Virginia have been dealing with the devastation of mountaintop removal mining for far too long. Let's make sure the CEQ knows that we expect it to use its power to protect West Virginia's residents, mountains and waterways from dirty and destructive mountaintop removal mining. Click below to automatically sign the petition to the White House Council on Environmental Quality: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/spruce_mine/?r_by=39158-179986-vPBIFzx&rc=paste1 Thank you for fighting mountaintop removal coal mining. Josh Nelson, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets 1. Judge Overturns EPA Veto of Spruce Mine Permit, West Virginia Gazette, 3/23/12 2. Community Impacts of Mountaintop Removal, Appalachian Voices Share on Facebook Post to your wall Tweet this Post to Twitter

How The Earth Got A Lawyer EARTH JUSTICE EBRIEF 21JAN11

UPDATES on mountain top removal mining, Mineral King in California, coal ash waste, Kansas coal fired power plants, New England fisheries, oil drilling.....a lot of good reading in this e mail newsletter. Please read 

Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds: She Has Been to the Mountaintop--and We Must Fight Harder to Save It 4JAN11

posted on this blog on 21JAN11

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At a Glance: In The News Trip Mineral King Features unEARTHED In The Win Stew Take Action "Mineral King really opened the gate." – Attorney Jim Moorman, on why ordinary people can sue to protect the environment. Read Q&A. The Earth Gets A Good Lawyer For more than 100 years, miners, rascals and even Mickey Mouse failed to tame one of America's wildest places. Nature defeated most of those misguided adventurers, but it took the partnership of some plucky lawyers 40 years ago to finally preserve the Sierra's majestic Mineral King. Their pioneering efforts laid the cornerstone of environmental law and gave birth to Earthjustice.  Read More Support Us: Help Protect 40 Years of Progress! We've come a long way since our founding in 1971. But the Earth still needs a good lawyer. Help us continue to preserve our natural heritage, promote a clean energy future and safeguard our health in the courts and on Capitol Hill. With your support, we'll preserve the gains of the past 40 years and continue winning in the next 40.

From Earthjustice's blog: Oil Commission Befriends Science The oil industry swears it's learned its lesson from the Gulf oil spill—but the President's National Oil Commission says the industry hasn't passed the science test. Abandoned in the zeal to drill ever-riskier offshore waters, science must guide any decisions about future drilling. And that includes the fragile Arctic seas, says Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen. Read More Tr-Ash Talk: Community rebels against toxic landfill.  Read (Latest in a series on the dangers of coal ash.) Ray Wan: The Fake Faces of Coal.  Read Raviya Ismail: Overfishing ebbs off New England.  Read Around the world of Earthjustice: Lawsuit Reignites Kansas Coal Fight Represented by Earthjustice, advocates for clean energy were back in court to stop a major, polluting coal-fired power plant in Kansas. The permit had been denied for three years over greenhouse gas emissions, in a struggle that drew national attention. Read more.

Earthjustice and its allies won advances—or outright victories—across a broad front: Appalachia Saved From Biggest Mine For the first time in a generation, Big Coal's destructive march across Appalachia has been stalled. W. Virginia communities are cheered by the EPA's veto of a mammoth mountaintop removal coal operation.  Read Judge Allows Challenge To Otter Creek Mine A plan to destructively wrench coal from an unspoiled natural setting in Montana will face judicial scrutiny, thanks to a court order that lets Earthjustice proceed with a suit challenging the scheme. The strip mining plan would devastate the Otter Creek area and ultimately add billions of tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.  Read More Appeals Board Victory For Clean Water in Washington State The entire state of Washington could feel the impact of a state appeals board ruling that Clark County failed to protect clean water. The county's development standards violated state and federal law, according to the board. This is good news for rivers, stream and salmon threatened with extinction, and it's a victory for Earthjustice and those it represented in the case.  Read More

Take Action Take Action: Earthjustice offers our supporters a variety of opportunities to take action in support of strong environmental protections. Check out our Action Center for details or join us on Facebook today. 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 - 'The Earth Gets A Good Lawyer': John Rasmussen.  'Appalachia Saved From Biggest Mine': Site of the proposed Spruce mine (green valley to right). Photo by Vivian Stockman of OVEC, Flyover courtesy SouthWings.  Take Action: Samantha Bornhorst. ©2011 Earthjustice | 426 17th Street, 6th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612 | 510-550-6700 | enews@earthjustice.org