Hilton Kelley is a leading environmental activist who gave up a Hollywood acting career to move to Port Arthur, Texas, a town that's known for having some of the most toxic air in the country. For more than a decade, Hilton Kelley has worked to clean up Port Arthur's air by facing off against industrial polluters that literally surround the Texas town. These facilities include numerous refineries and chemical plants, a ship yard full of diesel-fueled barges, and even an incineration plant that j...
Jul 07, 2014•17 min
Earthjustice Campaign Manager Kathleen Sutcliffe speaks with Helen Holden Slottje, a lawyer in upstate New York, who discusses her pioneering legal strategy to keep the controversial oil and gas development process known as "fracking" out of communities. Thanks in large part to Helen Slottje's efforts, more than 170 communities in New York have fracking bans or moratoriums on the books. In 2014, Helen’s hard work and bravery were rewarded with the Goldman Environmental Prize, often referred to a...
May 19, 2014•20 min
Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles discusses the fight to stop the expansion of crude-by-rail projects, which use trains to transport crude oil to facilities that then export it across the U.S. and internationally. Crude-by-rail has been around for some time, but recently it's received increased scrutiny due to a series of train accidents that have resulted in loss of life and leveled entire towns.
Mar 31, 2014•11 min
Marjorie Mulhall is a legislative counsel on Earthjustice's Policy and Legislation team, located in Washington, D.C. She works with Congress and federal agencies to protect the Endangered Species Act and prevent legislative rollback of our legal victories. Marjorie spoke with National Press Secretary Kari Birdseye in November of 2013.
Dec 13, 2013•15 min
From the California coast to Maryland ports, Earthjustice is fighting to protect communities and special places from fracking. Deborah Goldberg is co-Managing Attorney of the Northeast regional office. She spoke with Associate Editor Jessica Knoblauch in September of 2013.
Oct 17, 2013•21 min
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. 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 toxic pesticides like sulfoxaflor may be partly to blame. Greg works in the California regional office and spoke with Associate Editor Jessica Knoblauch in August of 2013.
Sep 11, 2013•9 min
Tom Murphy is a wildlife photographer who has spent countless hours documenting the beauty and wildlife of Yellowstone National Park. He shares experiences from decades of hiking, camping and skiing across Yellowstone, a place he refers to as "one of the finest wild land ecosystems in the world." During that time he's had plenty of grizzly bear encounters, but he is still waiting to cross paths with the ever-elusive wolverine. Tom spoke with Associate Editor Jessica Knoblauch in August of 2013....
Aug 15, 2013•16 min
Author Jon Mooallem describes the haphazard, and often inspiring, efforts of conservationists to protect endangered species. Jon Mooallem is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and author of the book "Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America." Mooallem spoke with Associate Editor Jessica Knoblauch in July of 2013.
Jul 20, 2013•27 min
Douglas H. Chadwick is a wildlife biologist and journalist. As a volunteer for the Glacier National Park Wolverine Project, Doug helped researchers track wolverines, fierce members of the weasel family who regularly face down grizzly bears. Climate change is threatening the wolverines' existence.
Feb 15, 2013•23 min
Environmental justice advocate Vernice Miller-Travis discusses why the fractured nature of green groups and the environmental justice movement undermines our overall political effectiveness.
Jan 19, 2013•37 min
Acclaimed ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber discusses the need for meaningful reform of toxics regulation and why extreme energy extraction must end.
Dec 06, 2012•26 min
Bill McKibben is an environmental activist and the founder of 350.org, an organization that's building a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
Nov 09, 2012•12 min
Dr. Alan Lockwood discusses coal's dirty characteristics, the recent Republican-led attacks on the U.S. EPA, and why cleaning up air pollutants could result in trillions of dollars of health-related benefits in the United States.
Oct 01, 2012•19 min
Earthjustice attorney Marianne Engelman Lado discusses confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, and their effects on people's health and the environment.
Aug 27, 2012•20 min
Acclaimed photographer Florian Schulz discusses his experiences in the rapidly changing Arctic.
Jul 17, 2012•21 min
Managing Attorney Deborah Goldberg discusses the Northeast regional office's litigation on fracking, a controversial form of industrial gas drilling that can contaminate the air and water.
Jun 26, 2012•23 min
Earthjustice staffer Jessica Knoblauch reports on the record-breaking ice melt that's occurring in the Arctic.
Jun 04, 2012•9 min
Earthjustice attorney Andrea Treece discusses her work to protect forage fish species, like anchovies and sardines, which serve as the building blocks of the ocean food web.
May 21, 2012•18 min
Earthjustice Vice President for Litigation Patti Goldman discusses efforts to protect the orca whales of Puget Sound, WA, whose existence is threatened by toxic contamination and starvation.
May 07, 2012•26 min
David Doubilet, an underwater photographer for National Geographic, discusses his first-hand experience with how ocean stressors negatively impact the aquatic environment.
Apr 23, 2012•37 min
Attorney Steve Roady discusses Earthjustice's decades-long effort in using federal environmental laws to protect the oceans from pollution, overfishing, habitat loss and climate change.
Apr 13, 2012•21 min
Earthjustice attorney David Henkin discusses his work to force the U.S Army to stop live-fire training operations at the Mākua Military Reservation on Oʻahu.
Mar 26, 2012•27 min
Earthjustice attorney Roger Fleming discusses his work with local fishermen to promote healthy ocean ecosystems along the East Coast.
Mar 12, 2012•32 min
Earthjustice attorney Paul Achitoff discusses how genetically engineered crops harm the environment by increasing pesticide use, creating superweeds and contaminating other crops.
Jul 29, 2011•15 min
Pesticide policy expert Charles Benbrook explains how genetically engineered crops have spawned the creation of superweeds that destroy entire crop fields.
Jul 22, 2011•24 min
Environmental health attorney George Kimbrell discusses the food safety implications of genetically modified crops, which aren't labeled in the U.S. and are poorly regulated.
Jul 15, 2011•26 min
Farmer Frank Morton discusses his battle to keep GMOs from contaminating his organic seed crops and ruining his business.
Jul 08, 2011•26 min
Clean Water Activist Gershon Cohen talks about stopping the cruise ship industry from dumping millions of gallons of wastewater into Alaska's pristine waters.
Jul 01, 2011•25 min
Earthjustice attorneys Isaac Moriwake and Kapua Sproat discuss their efforts to restore water rights to the people of Hawaii.
Apr 11, 2011•28 min
Earthjustice attorney Tim Preso discusses climate change impacts in one of America's last wild places, the Crown of the Continent.
Apr 09, 2011•18 min
