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Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA
I graduated in 1978 from Columbia Law School, where I was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and winner of the Convers Prize. After law school, I clerked for United States District Judge John R. Bartels in the Eastern District of New York. Since 1980, I’ve specialized in complex law reform litigation and argued cases on behalf of environmental and community organizations at all levels of the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Currently, I specialize in issues of coastal protection, land use, marine mammal protection, environmental justice, and transportation.
Recent Posts
Posted May 19, 2012 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- alaska, angloamerican, biogems, bristolbay, environmentalpotectionagency, epa, garystevens, northerndynastyminrals, pebblemine, rickhalford, riotinto, watershedassessment, wildsalmon
You may have heard that, after 15 months of study, the US Environmental Protection Agency last week released in draft for public comment its Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment, characterizing the natural resources in the region and documenting the potential impacts...continued→
Posted May 18, 2012 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, U.S. Law and Policy
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- alaska, angloamerican, biogem, biogems, bristolbay, bristolbaynativecorporation, environmentalprotectionagency, northerndynastyminerals, nrdc, pebblemine, riotinto, salmon, usepa, wildsalmon
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a major step forward today in its review of petitions to intervene in the intensifying battle over the proposed Pebble Mine in the Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska. After fifteen months of study,...continued→
Posted May 8, 2012 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably
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- alaska, angloamerican, biogems, environmentalist, environmentalprotection, gregorycanyonlandfill, keystonexl, naturalresourcesdefensecouncil, nrdc, pebblemine, riotinto, salmon, sanonofre, tollroad
Someone sent me a blog post this morning titled "Don't call me an environmentalist," arguing that "we need to look beyond the divisions and understand that most of us are on the same side, regardless of the labels we place on...continued→
Posted April 23, 2012 by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- angloamerican, biogem, bristolbay, northerndynasty, pebblemine, riotinto
Last Thursday in London, in support of the communities of Bristol Bay opposed to the massive Pebble Mine, NRDC delivered another 400,000 opposition petitions to the management of Anglo American and Rio Tinto, the two mining giants backing the mine. ...continued→
Posted April 17, 2012 by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- angloamerican, biogem, bristolbay, northerndynasty, pebblemine, riotinto
The two mining giants behind the proposed Pebble Mine – Anglo American and Rio Tinto – are holding their annual shareholder meetings this year on Thursday, April 19, in London. As in past years, we will be there to testify...continued→
Posted April 3, 2012 by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- alaska, angloamerican, bristolbay, cleanwateract, fisheries, mining, pebblemine, pebblepartnership, riotinto
The battle against the massive Pebble Mine is intensifying. Later this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to release for public comment a draft assessment of the potential impacts of the Pebble Mine on streams, rivers, and...continued→
Posted January 18, 2012 by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- biogems, eia, finwhales, huntforthewhalers, iceland, whaling
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the Environmental Investigation Agency’s (EIA) video “Hunt for the Whalers” is worth millions . It’s one thing to talk about the brutality of hunting fin whales in the North Atlantic. It...continued→
Posted November 22, 2011 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- alaska, angloamerican, bbnc, biogem, bristolbay, bristtolbaynativecorporation, jasonmetrokin, kvichakriver, lakeiliamna, northerndynastyminerals, pebblemine, pebblepartnership, riotinto, salmon, saveoursalmoninitiative
The opposition continues to grow. According to a poll released today of over 2,000 shareholders of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation – the regional Native corporation and largest private landholder in southwest Alaska – 81 percent of the company’s shareholders...continued→
Posted October 18, 2011 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- alaska, angloamerican, biogems, bristolbay, bristolbaynativecorporation, conservation, hunting, lakeandpeninsulaborough, pebblemine, pebblepartnership, riotinto, salmon, saveoursalmoninitiative, southwesternalaska
Today – October 17, 2011 – the votes were counted in Bristol Bay, and, in a historic result against enormous odds, the Save Our Salmon initiative has prevailed. In the Lake and Peninsula Borough of southwest Alaska, where the massive Pebble...continued→
Posted October 10, 2011 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- californialegislature, endangeredspecies, garbage, governorjerrybrown, gregorycanyonlandfill, gregorymountain, initiative, landfill, medicinerock, palabandofmissionindians, sacredsites, sandiego, sanluisreyriver, sb833, senatorjuanvargas, solidwaste, tribes, veto, waterquality
Governor Jerry Brown’s veto of SB 833, just minutes before the midnight deadline last night, is inexplicable in rational terms. The bill, sponsored by Senator Juan Vargas from San Diego, would have prohibited siting of a garbage dump on the...continued→
Posted October 6, 2011 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
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- californiacoastalcommission,, californiastatepark,, commercedepartment,, congestion,, foothillsouthtollroad,, orangecounty,, ortegahighway,, osoparkway,, sandiegocounty,, sanonofre,, sanonofrestatebeach,, savesanonofrecoalition, surfing,, tca,, transportation,, transportationcorridoragency,, wildlife,foothilleasterntransportationcorridoragency
Remember the Foothill South toll road? The one proposed by the Orange County Transportation Corridor Agencies (“TCA”) that would eviscerate the California State Park at San Onofre State Beach, one of the most popular state parks in California? The illegal...continued→
Posted October 4, 2011 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- california, californiaenvironmentalqualityact, californialegislature, ceqa, ceqareform, communities, environmentaldecisionmaking, environmentaljustice, farmersfield, governorbrown, judicialreview, losangeles, oildrilling, toxics, warehouses
In Vernon, the state’s first large-scale commercial toxic waste incinerator spews deadly dioxins and furans near schools, churches, and the residential communities of East Los Angeles. In Richmond, a commercial center is constructed on the Breuner Marsh, filling wetlands and...continued→
Posted October 4, 2011 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- alaska, angloamerican, belugawhales, biogems, bristolbay, cynthiacarroll, lakeandpeninsulaborough, pebblemine, pebblepartnership, riotinto, robertglennketchum, salmon, saveoursalmon, wildlife
Today – Tuesday October 4, 2011 – is a big day in southwest Alaska. It marks the conclusion of voting on the Save Our Salmon (“SOS”) initiative being considered by the residents of the Lake and Peninsula Borough, where the...continued→
Posted August 10, 2011 by Joel Reynolds in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
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- 30/10, 710tunnel, airpollution, americafastforward, sanonofre, tollroad, traffic, transit, vinscully
There are two things on which most Southern Californians enthusiastically agree: Vin Scully should announce Dodger baseball forever, and something needs to be done about the traffic.Sadly, there's nothing we can do to make Scully immortal. But we can definitely...continued→
Posted August 1, 2011 by Joel Reynolds in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- biogems, easternpacificgraywhale, graywhale, graywhalenursery, lagunasanignacio, lagunasanignacioconservationalliance, scientificresearch, westernpacificgraywhale
Laguna San Ignacio, along the Pacific coast of Baja California, is renowned as the last undisturbed breeding and calving lagoon of the Eastern North Pacific gray whale. Over a decade ago, this World Heritage Site was the focus of a...continued→
