Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
As a lawyer, I've written about environmental harms quite often. Yet as I recently flew over several of the larger mountaintop mines in eastern Kentucky, I struggled to find the words to describe the devastation. The scars where trees, topsoil...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
NRDC recently won a case in federal court that held accountable a major utility that tried to snooker the American public. This decision upheld a core purpose of much of NRDC's litigation, vindicating, in turn, a core principle of our...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise
Almost every day now, a major media outlet carries a story about the dangers to alternative energy development because of the economic crisis rippling across the world. What you aren't reading much of anything about in the mainstream media today...continued→
