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- Cryptocurrency Mining in Texas https://earthjustice.org/feature/cryptocurrency-mining-texas 50 comments
- In a Win for Endangered Salmon, Court Orders Puyallup River Dam Removal - A federal district court recently ruled that a large portion of Electron Dam must be removed from the Puyallup River in Washington because the dam harms fish protected under the Endangered Species Act https://earthjustice.org/brief/2024/in-a-win-for-endangered-salmon-court-orders-puyallup-river-dam-removal 8 comments upliftingnews
- Quarter of a million acres of ancient forest targetted by US Forestry Service and BLM https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2022/report-federal-logging-projects-put-10-climate-saving-forests-on-chopping-block 49 comments environment
- Environmental Groups Take US Postal Service to Court for Scheme to Buy Massively Polluting Mail Trucks | Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is facing wave of litigation for decision to replace up to 90% of postal truck fleet with fuel-guzzling trucks without a thorough environmental review https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2022/environmental-groups-take-postal-service-to-court-for-scheme-to-buy-massively-polluting-mail-trucks 11 comments climate
- Postal Service Finalizes Plan Locking United States into Combustion Mail Trucks During Spiraling Climate Crisis https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2022/postal-service-finalizes-plan-locking-united-states-into-combustion-mail-trucks-during-spiraling-climate-crisis?amp%3Butm_medium=social&%3Butm_term=feed 927 comments environment
- How Bitcoin is Heating This Lake and Warming the Planet - Earthjustice https://earthjustice.org/blog/2021-june/bitcoin-dirty-power 9 comments climate
- Trump Administration Invites Oil Industry to Desecrate Sacred Arctic Refuge https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2020/trump-administration-invites-oil-industry-to-desecrate-sacred-arctic-refuge 5 comments worldnews
- Is the Water All Right? https://earthjustice.org/blog/2020-august/is-the-water-all-right?utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_term=newsletter&utm_campaign=200816_fortherecord_august2020&utm_content=readmore&curation=newsletter&emci=2dae6948-35e0-ea11-8b03-00155d0394bb&emdi=af3fd67c-c8e0-ea11-8b03-00155d0394bb&ceid=937118 5 comments politics
- ‘Virtual’ Hearings Are Silencing Indigenous Voices in Alaska https://earthjustice.org/blog/2020-may/virtual-hearings-are-silencing-indigenous-voices-in-alaska 3 comments worldnews
- 16 Young People, including Greta Thunberg, File UN Human Rights Complaint on Climate Change https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2019/un-committee-on-the-rights-of-the-child-receives-first-ever-human-rights-complaint-on-climate-change 3 comments worldnews
- Say Goodbye to all Endangered Species http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2017/proposed-legislation-would-jeopardize-wolves-undermine-endangered-species-act 7 comments politics
- Congress unleashes War on Wolves. http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2017/congress-unleashes-war-on-wolves 12 comments politics
- Ben & Jerry’s Joins Fight for GMO Food Labeling http://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-september/ben-jerry-s-joins-fight-for-gmo-food-labeling 13 comments worldnews
- In a study of fish and crabs in the Atlantic, scientists have found rising water temperatures increase animals' metabolism and demand for oxygen. Warmer water holds less oxygen than cold, pushing the creatures closer and closer to the North and South Poles. http://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-june/climate-change-leaves-fish-and-crabs-gasping-for-breath 3 comments science
- California Releases Draft Plan for Unlimited Future Pesticide Spraying Plan would give State Department of Food and Agriculture approval to spray with no public review http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2014/california-releases-draft-plan-for-unlimited-future-pesticide-spraying 4 comments science
- In a town that recently made news for its racially segregated prom, African-American residents are suing their city government for discharging raw sewage onto their properties. http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2013/african-american-citizens-sue-city-of-rochelle-georgia-over-decades-of-sewage-dumping 43 comments politics
- Larry Gibson, defender of the WV mountains, died today. You should know about him. http://earthjustice.org/mountain-heroes/larry-gibson 3 comments politics
- Want to stop cancer? Don't put a sticker on your car. Hang your clothes out on a clothes line to dry them. (Saving three pounds of coal per load!) http://www.earthjustice.org/news/press/007/cancer-coals-hidden-cost.html 10 comments reddit.com
- Court ordered coal utilities to stop spewing mercury into the air. Bush administration allied with companies to appeal to Supreme Court. Obama administration just withdrew from the lawsuit, and asked court to drop it. http://www.earthjustice.org/news/press/2009/new-administration-reverses-course-on-power-plant-mercury-regulations.html 9 comments politics