Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
It was great to see Charles Duhigg's article about under-enforcement of water pollution laws yesterday. Quite apart from the water angle, which we obviously care a whole lot about, it was wonderful to see that good print journalism is still...continued→
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution , Reviving the World's Oceans , U.S. Law and Policy
I recently attended a conference about the health of the Mississippi River, and I was struck by a compelling analogy my colleague Matt Rota of the Gulf Restoration Network used to describe the giant Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The...continued→
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution , U.S. Law and Policy
The title of this post is stolen from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who used the line during a recent public appearance. (Click here, then click on the player button to watch it; the relevant discussion begins at about 15:40.) Administrator Jackson was...continued→
Posted by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
It's a good day. Today, Senator Russ Feingold and 23 additional Senators joined to introduce the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2009, a bill that would ensure that the Clean Water Act applies to protect a host of water bodies that...continued→
Posted by Jon Devine in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
When I was a kid, even though I lived only a couple of miles from the ocean, the most important water body I could imagine was The River. Hardly even a stream, The River was located beyond The Pit in...continued→
