Why national parks are fading away

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Forward to a friend        Home      Take Action      Donate September 2013         What view would you hate to lose? America's national parks are fading from view because of haze produced by America's coal-fired power plants. Read about the issue here, and then tell us: What park view would you most hate to lose?    Continue Reading  »    TELL US: Tweet your answer to @Earthjustice. SHOW US: Hashtag your photo with #reasonsweprotect. Trip's Column A View of What's At Stake At 35,000 feet in the air, nothing conceals the grandness of America's natural treasures, nor the environmental threats attacking them, reports Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen. From his airplane window seat, Trip sees great mountain ranges being ground down by mountaintop removal mining; vast stretches of heartland streaked with polluted plumes from coal-fired power plants; entire landscapes scarred by drilling operations.     Continue Reading »      In The News Pacific Northwest Murrelet 4, Timber Industry 0 The timber industry lost its latest attempt to log the marbled murrelet's forest home, and is using increasingly desperate tactics to say we shouldn't be protecting this bird. "It's time for timber to figure how to live with this bird," says Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles, who scored a major victory for the threatened seabird.    Continue Reading »    Alaska Shell Pays for Polluting Arctic The price tag of drilling in America's Arctic waters went up this month when the EPA and Shell agreed that the repeated air quality violations during the summer of 2012 were worth $1.1 million—out of Shell's pocket.    Continue Reading »    Take Action: Suspend Arctic Ocean Drilling California Salmon Run Saved by Court A huge run of spawning chinook salmon is coursing up the Klamath/Trinity rivers system in Northern California—thanks to an emergency release of water won in court by a coalition effort involving Earthjustice, tribal and fisheries groups, and federal agencies. The salmon faced almost-certain death when corporate farms tried to seize the water for use hundreds of miles away.    Continue Reading »    Web Feature: Running on Empty California Smart Plan Wears Dunce Cap San Francisco Bay Area agencies have come out with a plan to reduce climate pollution, improve public transit and protect communities. Only problem: its aim is off, and it misses on most counts. Earthjustice is leading the lawsuit to fix the plan.    Continue Reading »    Web Feature: California Regional Office Kentucky Court Stops Mountaintop Mine The battle over the nation's most extreme form of coal mining, mountaintop removal, is mounting. Early this month, Earthjustice convinced an appeals court to freeze mining at the Stacy Branch site in Kentucky while the court prepares to consider the case.    Continue Reading »    Montana Bison Get Homeland Security After years of legal wrangling, a herd of wild bison returned to the historic prairie grasslands of the Fort Belknap reservation, welcomed by members of the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes. This is the second wild herd wrangled back home by Earthjustice and its allies.    Continue Reading »    Video Feature: Re-Born to be Re-Wild   Down to Earth: An Earthjustice Podcast Feeling the Sting: Pesticide Threatens Honeybees Over the last few years, honeybees, which pollinate billions of dollars of U.S. crops annually, have been dying at unprecedented rates. Studies suggest that pesticides may be partly to blame. Earthjustice Attorney Greg Loarie discusses his work to get a toxic pesticide known as sulfoxaflor off the market, due to threats it poses to honeybees.     Listen to Interview »    You've been reading e.Brief, Earthjustice's monthly e-newsletter. Having trouble viewing this email? Read it online: earthjustice.org/newsletter Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer. Learn about our work: earthjustice.org Photo Credits:   · What view would you hate to lose?:  The Grand Canyon on a clear day and a hazy day. (Air Resource Specialists, Inc. for the National Park Service's IMPROVE program.)   · Keep Our National Parks Beautiful:  Yosemite National Park. (Chrissy Pepino / Earthjustice) Bryce Canyon National Park. (Ray Wan / Earthjustice)   · A View of What's At Stake:  An airplane flies over Desolation Canyon, UT. (Ecoflight)   · Murrelet 4, Timber Industry 0:  Marbled murrelets are shy seabirds that nest in old-growth forests. (R. Lowe / USFWS)   · Shell pays for polluting Arctic:  The climate impacts of drilling in the Arctic are enormous. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com)   · Salmon Run Saved by Court:  Chinook salmon are making their way upriver to spawn. (Dec Hogan / Shutterstock)   · Smart Plan Wears Dunce Cap:  Traffic moves over the Bay Bridge on the way to San Francisco. (trekandshoot / Shutterstock)   · Court Freezes Ky. Mine:  A hillside in central Kentucky. (Alexey Stiop / Shutterstock)   · Bison Get Homeland Security:  Bison are making their way back to their ancestral range, thanks in part to Earthjustice. (Sergio Boccardo / Shutterstock)   · Feeling the Sting: Pesticide Threatens Honeybees:  A honeybee approaches a flower. 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