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Lending A Hand To Access Public Land

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Access Land and other groups want the government to make campground availability data freely available to help more Americans access public land.

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Can Light Pollution Really Cause Breast Cancer?

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss breast, cancer, disease, Dorn Veterans Affairs Medical Center, International Dark-Sky Association, light, light pollution, Mary Imogene Bassett Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, pollution, Prevention, risk, risks, Sierra Club, William Hrushesky

The glow of city lights blotting out stars in the night sky has frustrated many a stargazer, but recent studies have shown that “light pollution”—defined as excess or obtrusive light at night—can actually have serious health effects, including a potential breast cancer link.

Currents

Rallying Against Land Grabs at Bears Ears, Grand-Staircase Escalante

Roddy Scheer Atlantic, Bears Ears, Cascade-Siskiyou, Center for Biological Diversity, conservation, Defenders of Wildlife, Gold Butte, Grand Canyon Trust, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Hopi, Indian, Katahdin, Maine, national monument, Native American, Navajo Nation, Nevada, New Mexico, ocean, Oregon, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Pacific, Patagonia, Pueblo of Zuni, Rio Grande del Norte, rollback, Rose Atoll, Sierra Club, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Natural Resources Defense Council, Trump, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians, Wilderness Society

Greens are already fighting Trump’s new executive orders revoking protections on millions of acres within ten U.S. national monuments…

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The Environmental Conscience of Instagram

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer @bbcearth, @Waterlust, @WildlifePlanet, #climatechange, #everydayclimatechange, Arrati Kumarrao, Camille Seaman, Center for Biological Diversity, Clean Energy Advocates, hashtag, Inherit the Earth, Instagram, James Whitlow Delano, Nature Conservancy, NRDC, Paul Nicklen, Sean Gallagher, Sierra Club

Thousands of Instagram accounts are dedicated to raising awareness of environmental problems and providing solutions everyday people can embrace.

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Greens Bemoan Neil Gorsuch as Trump Supreme Court Choice

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Environmental leaders aren’t particularly jazzed about Neil Gorsuch as Donald Trump’s nominee to fill Judge Scalia’s vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Fighting Trump: How Environmentalists Are Preparing for the Donald’s White House

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Beyond Dirty Fuels, cabinet, Dakota Access, DAPL, divestment, EPA, fossil fuel, Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network, Keystone XL, network, pipeline, Scott Pruitt, Secretary of State, Sierra Club, student, Tillerson, Trump

Environmentalists are stirring up public support for cutting fossil fuel development & reining in carbon emissions as Donald takes office.

Warming World

Virginians Join Sierra Club’s “Ready for 100” Campaign

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Arlington County and Alexandria, Virginia recently joined 16 other U.S. cities in the Sierra Club’s “Ready for 100 Campaign” whereby cities commit to 100% clean, renewable energy within the next two decades.

Justice for All

Gathering of Tribes Mobilizes to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline

Ethan Goffman Army Corps of Engineers, Dakota Access Pipeline, Democracy Now, Department of Justice, Energy Transfer Partners, Honor the Earth, Sierra Club, Standing Rock Sioux

Thousands of protestors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota are trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline slated to cross land adjacent to sacred tribal territory.

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Is a coal-free future really possible in the United States?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Clean Power Plan, coal, Energy Information Administration, Sierra Club

Given the influx of cheap natural gas and the ascendance of renewable energy sources, coal might not be able to mount a comeback.is down and out…

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Volkswagen Emissions Scandal: The Environmental Impact

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer automaker, cheat, cheating, emissions, EPA, Harvard, mileage, MIT, rigging, scandal, Sierra Club, The Guardian, Volkswagen, VW

Volkswagen is ponying up $18.2 billion to deal with its emissions cheating scandal, but environmentalists wonder if all the money in the world will be able to repair the wound to consumer confidence…