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Sep 4, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
In February 2020, residents of a small town in Mississippi began experiencing unexplained sickness. Dozens of people were rushed to the local hospital, some of whom had passed out while driving their cars. The culprit wasn’t a virus, but an asphyxiant. A pipeline carrying carbon dioxide, or CO2, had ruptured, leaking the odorless gas into the town of Satartia.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Alison Cagle
In February 2020, residents of a small town in Mississippi began experiencing unexplained sickness. Dozens of people were rushed to the local hospital, some of whom had passed out while driving their cars. The culprit wasn’t a virus, but an asphyxiant. A pipeline carrying carbon dioxide, or CO2, had ruptured, leaking the odorless gas into the town of Satartia.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
The grizzly bear stands as an embodiment of wild, untamed nature. Yet they were almost hunted to oblivion. Their comeback story illustrates the power of habitat conservation and federal protections to pull a species back from the brink of extinction — but their story isn’t finished yet. Grizzly bears once occupied much of the American West, with a population estimated at 50,000. Yet a century of hunting and habitat destruction nearly wiped out grizzlies in the lower 48 states.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
Endangered beluga whales and sea otters in Alaska just got a reprieve from fossil fuel development that could have further imperiled them. A federal judge suspended an offshore lease in Cook Inlet, finding that the federal government broke the law when it auctioned off critical marine mammal habitat for oil and gas drilling. On behalf of local environmental groups, Earthjustice had challenged the lease sale in court.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Alison Cagle
Endangered beluga whales and sea otters in Alaska just got a reprieve from fossil fuel development that could have further imperiled them. A federal judge suspended an offshore lease in Cook Inlet, finding that the federal government broke the law when it auctioned off critical marine mammal habitat for oil and gas drilling. On behalf of local environmental groups, Earthjustice had challenged the lease sale in court.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
When hikers come from near and far to climb Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest peak, it isn’t always for the view. Rising 4,000 feet above a sea of forest, reaching Katahdin’s summit is considered a backpacking milestone. For the Wabanaki Nations of Maine, Mount Katahdin is much more than a hiker’s bragging rights. Chuck Loring Jr., a member of the Penobscot Nation (which is a part of the Wabanaki Confederacy), knew the moment he’d entered a sacred place.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Alison Cagle
When hikers come from near and far to climb Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest peak, it isn’t always for the view. Rising 4,000 feet above a sea of forest, reaching Katahdin’s summit is considered a backpacking milestone. For the Wabanaki Nations of Maine, Mount Katahdin is much more than a hiker’s bragging rights. Chuck Loring Jr., a member of the Penobscot Nation (which is a part of the Wabanaki Confederacy), knew the moment he’d entered a sacred place.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
On a clear day, visitors to Smoky Mountain National Park can see the incredible view pictured above. Yet thanks to dirty air pollution from nearby facilities that burn fossil fuels, visitors may get this haze-smeared view instead:Now, in response to legal action by Earthjustice and conservation groups, the government is acting to reduce haze pollution in national parks, bringing cleaner air to iconic wilderness areas and their surrounding communities.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
The extreme impacts of climate change are reshaping our summers – and this one is on track to be among the most brutal yet in the U.S.Residents of the Gulf Coast are just beginning to repair the damage from Hurricane Beryl, the earliest category 5 hurricane on record, fueled by exceptionally warm ocean waters. One recent heatwave had more than 245 million Americans enduring 90-degree temperatures.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
Oil and gas companies are targeting the Gulf of Mexico to build a new generation of polluting infrastructure and carbon emissions. If successful, these facilities would lock us into decades of fossil fuels. Though the consequences of a fossil fuel buildout in the Gulf will be global, the people fighting against it are mostly local residents. These communities will face the harshest impacts from sea level rise, intensified hurricanes, toxic pollution, and oil spills.
