Posted May 9, 2013 by Meleah Geertsma in Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places
Today the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC), a collaboration among federal, state and local agencies and other stakeholders focused on addressing the threat of Asian carp to the Great Lakes, released its 2013 Monitoring and Response Plan for...continued→
Posted April 30, 2013 by Meleah Geertsma in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
A new report issued by EPA in late April – an update to the national emissions inventory for greenhouse gases – continues to highlight the oil and gas sector’s role as the country’s top industrial source of methane...continued→
Posted December 14, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places
Back in 2010, a group of Great Lakes states led by Michigan sued the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago to permanently close the locks of the Chicago Area Waterways System in...continued→
Posted November 29, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
We are glad to see that Governor Snyder, in his recent message Ensuring our Future: Energy and the Environment, acknowledges the significant public concerns around the impacts of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) for natural gas and oil on the environment...continued→
Posted November 16, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places
What’s the latest news in the fight to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes? This week in Chicago, the Army Corps of Engineers held the first of several “charrettes” to inform its work on the aquatic nuisance species...continued→
Posted July 9, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
Sometimes it is important to beat a supposedly dead horse, especially when that horse can make bad legal precedent. News out of the Illinois EPA (“IEPA”) – acknowledging its issuance of a flawed air permit to a huge proposed coal gasification...continued→
Posted June 28, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
The reasons to applaud the recent decision of the federal appeals court upholding EPA’s suite of actions regarding greenhouse gases are many. It recognizes once again, as did the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA, the huge body of robust...continued→
Posted June 6, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma
With the spotlight shining on air and water pollution from the oil and gas industry, new attention is being paid to the leakage of methane, a powerful climate-changing pollutant, from the wells, pipelines and other infrastructure that bring natural gas...continued→
Posted May 24, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
Yesterday, EPA and a coalition of environmental groups including NRDC announced a precedent-setting settlement with BP over alleged air pollution violations at the company’s massive refinery in Whiting, Indiana. Back in 2008 when we began this lawsuit under the Clean...continued→
Posted April 18, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
By issuing standards today to control the harmful stew of air pollution from the oil and gas industry, the Environmental Protection Agency took an important step towards making good on President Obama’s State of the Union pledge to clean-up natural gas production...continued→
Posted March 28, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
We all know that improving our homes’ insulation and fixing leaky windows and doors can help us save money and the environment, with many investments in home energy efficiency paying for themselves in a short amount of time. But few...continued→
Posted January 11, 2012 by Meleah Geertsma in Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
Who are the biggest carbon polluters in your neighborhood, your city, or your state? What power plants or factories near you are responsible for the pollution that’s driving global warming that threatens your health and your planet? Until today, most...continued→
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