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Net Tightens Around New England Herring Trawlers
Earthjustice actions improve odds against fish slaughter If you Google an image of a herring midwater trawler, you see a well-equipped large fishing ship. What you may not see are the massive nets...
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Monday Reads: The Great White Feast Edition
Recycling of life, one shark bite at a time Great white shark, ready for a meal. Photo: Fedorenko Gennady.It turns out you really can get a free lunch—at least, if you're a great white shark.A group...
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Day of Mourning - The 6-month Anniversary of Gulf Oil Spill
Nation's biggest oil spill remains a mixture of tragedy and mystery Today, six months from the day the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded 42 miles off the Louisiana shore, much is still unknown about...
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White House Girds for Battles With Congress Over Science
Holdren lays down the law EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson The Hill, a beltway website, carried a piece Dec. 17, reporting on a memo issued by the White House science advisor, John Holdren, ordering all...
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Congress v. The Environment: The House Is On Fire
House lawmakers continue to slash essential protections for the American public As I write this, members of the House of Representatives continue to debate and move their way through votes on hundreds...
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Monday Reads: The JFK Turtle Invasion Edition
“Slow-motion stampede” grounds planes to a halt One member of the turtle invasion poses for a dramatic photo. (Photo: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)Here at Monday Reads, we’ve followed the...
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Sharks Slaughtered in Gill Net off Texas Coast
Illegal fishing practices in the Gulf of Mexico lead to death of 3,000 sharks Texas game wardens pull in miles of netting filled with killed sharks. Source: www.valleycentral.comIt was the largest...
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Stormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Steve Roady on Oceans
“A lot of people have no idea that many of these ocean species are so badly depleted.” Steve Roady speaks about Earthjustice's oceans litigation.Intro: This is the first in a series of Q and As on...
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Groups Demand That Navy Change Sonar Testing
Whales, other creatures imperiled by Navy's insensitivity Grey whales are among the creatures threatened by sonar testing.Environmental groups and some Indian tribes, represented by Earthjustice, have...
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Little Fish Are a Big Deal
And we should protect them Menhaden are a key forage fish threatened by overfishing.When you ask a 4-year-old, “What do big fish eat?,” the answer comes easily, “Little fish!”A new report by the...
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Navy Admits Greater Harm To Sea Mammals
Coastal training kills, injures more than thought A Navy vessel with research ship and orca pod, in the foreground. (Center for Whale Research)Last week, the U.S. Navy came out with a shocking...
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Victories For East Coast Forage Fish
Finally, oversight coming for poorly regulated fisheries Herring school.A special thank you goes out to the thousands of Earthjustice supporters who took action over the last few months by writing to...
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Resident Orcas Attacked By Anti-Environment Group
Earthjustice will act to protect them L87, a southern resident orca, breaches at sunset with Whidbey Island and Mt. Baker in the background. (Susan Berta / Orca Network)A far right anti-environmental...
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Friday Finds: Facebook’s Climate Change Status
Plus: Oregano immunity, recycling for couples, NorCal coastal protections Photo courtesy of Scott Beale (flickr)Climate change could flood Facebook, Google by 2050 Facebook can't be brought down by...
View ArticleArctic Whales, Shell Execs & Spider Legs
And ConocoPhillips eager to drill in the Arctic Ocean Earthjustice received some superb video today from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, of Shell’s beat up Arctic drilling rig, the Kulluk, as it was lifted onto...
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Troubled Waters for Atlantic Herring
Vital forage fish suffers twin setbacks Atlantic herring are a crucial part of the marine food web. (AdStock RF / Shutterstock)Pity the lowly herring, an essential species getting little love these...
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Orcas Struggle For Survival Against Big Ag
Mega-farms would exterminate Puget Sound whales' main food: salmon Orca L87 breaches at sunset with Whidbey Island and Mt. Baker in the background, Oct. 15, 2010. (Susan Berta / Orca Network)Something...
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Navy Sonar Harms Marine Mammals
Legislators support full examination of new science to protect whales Humpback mother and calf. (Achimdiver / Shutterstock)In November, whales and other marine mammals along the Pacific Coast from...
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Friday Finds: Drought Leaves CA Glass Half Empty
Climate change threatens grapes, salmon and other dining favorites Photo by Udo Schröter (Flickr)While much of the country digs itself out from piles of snow, wine growers in Napa Valley are losing...
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Troubled Waters for Atlantic Herring
Thursday, August 15, 2013View CommentsTroubled Waters for Atlantic HerringPity the lowly herring, an essential species getting little love these days from the government agencies that are supposed to...
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