Down to Earth: an Earthjustice Podcast

Down to Earth: an Earthjustice Podcast episodes:

• 07.07.2014

  The Smell of Money: One Man's Fight to Clear the Air in His Hometown

  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,...

  
• 05.19.2014

  Fighting Fracking, And Winning

  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...

  
• 03.31.2014

  Caution: Crude by Rail Crossing

  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...

  
• 12.13.2013

  Defending the Endangered Species Act

  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...

  
• 10.17.2013

  On the Fracking Frontlines

  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.

  
• 09.11.2013

  Feeling the Sting: Toxic Pesticide Threatens Honeybees

  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,...

  
• 08.15.2013

  "Never Ruin a Bear's Nap": An Interview with Wildlife Photographer Tom Murphy

  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...

  
• 07.20.2013

  Dressing Up in Bird Costumes (And Other Dispatches from the Conservation World)

  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...

  
• 02.15.2013

  Keeping the Wolverine Wild

  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...

  
• 01.19.2013

  Ecology Without Equality

  Environmental justice advocate Vernice Miller-Travis discusses why the fractured nature of green groups and the environmental justice movement undermines our overall political effectiveness.

  
• 12.06.2012

  The Fossil Fuel Body Burden

  Acclaimed ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber discusses the need for meaningful reform of toxics regulation and why extreme energy extraction must end.

  
• 11.09.2012

  Bill McKibben on the Climate Crisis

  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.

  
• 10.01.2012

  Down to Earth with Dr. Alan Lockwood

  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.

  
• 08.27.2012

  The Environmental Beef with Industrial Agriculture

  Earthjustice attorney Marianne Engelman Lado discusses confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, and their effects on people's health and the environment.

  
• 07.17.2012

  Florian Schulz on Icy Adventures and Arctic Stressors

  Acclaimed photographer Florian Schulz discusses his experiences in the rapidly changing Arctic.

  
• 06.26.2012

  The Dark Side of the Fracking Boom

  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.

  
• 06.04.2012

  On Thin Ice

  Earthjustice staffer Jessica Knoblauch reports on the record-breaking ice melt that's occurring in the Arctic.

  
• 05.21.2012

  Restoring the Ocean Food Web

  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.

  
• 05.07.2012

  Protecting Orca Whales in Puget Sound

  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.

  
• 04.23.2012

  Photographer David Doubilet on Ocean Stressors

  David Doubilet, an underwater photographer for National Geographic, discusses his first-hand experience with how ocean stressors negatively impact the aquatic environment.

  
• 04.13.2012

  Using Environmental Law to Protect the Oceans

  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.

  
• 03.26.2012

  Hawaii's Mākua Valley: The Stolen, Sacred Land

  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.

  
• 03.12.2012

  Restoring the Nation's Oldest Fishery

  Earthjustice attorney Roger Fleming discusses his work with local fishermen to promote healthy ocean ecosystems along the East Coast.

  
• 07.29.2011

  GMOs: Engineering an Environmental Disaster

  Earthjustice attorney Paul Achitoff discusses how genetically engineered crops harm the environment by increasing pesticide use, creating superweeds and contaminating other crops.

  
• 07.22.2011

  Attack of the Superweeds

  Pesticide policy expert Charles Benbrook explains how genetically engineered crops have spawned the creation of superweeds that destroy entire crop fields.

  
• 07.15.2011

  GMOs: An Experiment in Food Safety

  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.

  
• 07.08.2011

  Organic Farmer Faces Off Against GMOs

  Farmer Frank Morton discusses his battle to keep GMOs from contaminating his organic seed crops and ruining his business.

  
• 07.01.2011

  Cleaning Up Cruise Ship Pollution

  Clean Water Activist Gershon Cohen talks about stopping the cruise ship industry from dumping millions of gallons of wastewater into Alaska's pristine waters.

  
• 04.11.2011

  Restoring Water Rights in Hawaii

  Earthjustice attorneys Isaac Moriwake and Kapua Sproat discuss their efforts to restore water rights to the people of Hawaii.

  
• 04.09.2011

  Protecting One of America's Last Wild Places

  Earthjustice attorney Tim Preso discusses climate change impacts in one of America's last wild places, the Crown of the Continent.

  
• 04.08.2011

  Wildlife of the Crown of the Continent

  Earthjustice attorney Tim Preso talks about protecting endangered species like the wolverine in the Crown of the Continent—one of the last remaining wild places in North America.

  
• 04.07.2011

  Climate Change in Glacier National Park

  Research ecologist Dan Fagre discusses how climate change in the Crown of the Continent could result in a glacier-free Glacier National Park by 2030.

  
• 04.06.2011

  Protecting the Rocky Mountain Front

  Conservation activist Gene Sentz discusses his decades-long mission to keep dirty oil and gas wells out of the Rocky Mountain Front.

  
• 04.05.2011

  Environmentalist Risks Torture in Latin America

  International activist Rodolfo Montiel Flores discusses being tortured by his own government for helping to save forest lands in southern Mexico.

  
• 04.04.2011

  Keeping Lake Tahoe Blue

  Michael Donahoe of the Tahoe Area Sierra Club discusses his efforts to keep private piers and buoys out of the publically-owned Lake Tahoe.