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EarthJustice Newsletter, 8/18/2019
This EarthJustice newsletter addressed the following topics this week:
Why the Endangered Species Act rollback is a bad idea
The man who’s attacking endangered species
Our looming extinction crisis
Six animals saved by the Endangered Species Act
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Mountain Valley Pipeline
This Sierra Club article discusses a new lawsuit filed by multiple environmental groups against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Conservation groups today launched a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The petition for review of the project was filed with the Fourth […]
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Report: Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days (2019)
This Union of Concerned Scientists report discusses Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days (2019). Extreme heat is poised to rise steeply in frequency and severity over the coming decades, bringing unprecedented health risks for people and communities
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Report: Pipeline-Related Pollution Events
The environmental group, West Virginia Rivers, discusses pipeline-related pollution in a new report here.
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Report: VCN’s 2020 Common Agenda
This Virginia Conservation Network (VCN) report discusses issues that Virginia environmental groups are focusing on.
Welcome to VCN’s 2020 Common Agenda, representing the policy agenda of more than 100 organizations across the Commonwealth. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the conservation issues facing Virginia and provides practical, state-level policy […]
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Yale Climate connections 7-26-2019
This week’s articles include:
A small electric plane demonstrates promise, obstacles of climate-friendly air travel
New Koch-funded fossil exhibit at the Smithsonian is curiously quiet on fossil fuels
To save money, Pennsylvania farmer puts his pigs to work
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2 articles on plastics
This article discusses South Carolina’s Sullivan’s Island beach is strewn with tiny plastic pellets, and cleanup isn’t likely. The pellets are nurdles, the raw material used to make virtually every commercial plastic item in the market. They are a toxic petroleum product that can poison or clog the guts […]
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EarthJustice Newsletter July 21, 2019
Earthjustice is a team of more than 100 legal experts on staff and more than 600 active cases, holding accountable those who threaten to harm our environment and break our bedrock environmental laws. Their newsletter discusses various topics, and it is well worth signing up for. This week’s includes:
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Report: 6 articles on climate change and heat
The first article discusses how CLIMATE CHANGE WILL EXPOSE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN U.S. TO ‘OFF-THE-CHARTS’ EXTREME HEAT. In the coming decades, climate change will lead to a significant increase in the frequency and severity of extreme heat across the contiguous United States, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has […]
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