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Welcome to Greenblawg
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Greetings from San Francisco. This is the first post to Greenblawg, the Sierra Club legal team's on-line journal. We aim to keep a journal on environmental cases and issues like global warming, Giant Sequoias and the connection between wind energy and Donald Rumsfeld.
Giant Sequoias -- We're wrapping up our recent victory against the current administration's management [logging] plan for the Giant Sequoia National Monument, by filing a proposed judgment with the court. The judgment will stop logging inside the Monument, home to two-thirds of all the Giant Sequoias on Earth. The judgment also protects the Pacific fisher, a rare animal inahbiting the Giant Sequoia ecosystem. Stay tuned for much more here about why logging big trees in the wilderness does not protect communities from forest fires.
The Coal Rush -- I talked with folks in Georgia today about LS Power's proposal to build an 1200-megawatt coal-fired power plant along the Chatahoochee River. To give you an idea of what this means, the plant would burn pulverized coal and emit millions of tons of greenhouse gases every year, not to mention mercury, soot, sulfuric acid mist...... This plant is just one of over one hundred such plants now in the pipeline, just in the U.S. Nobody's waiting around for greenhouse laws to kick in...........
We view this as one of the front lines of global warming, and we are devoting our staff to bringing legal actions that challenge dirty coal plants -- they perpetuate a 19th century technology, instead of promoting a safer future. Check out our "Stop the Coal Rush" work and join the effort if you confront one of these beasts in your neck of the woods.
Stopping the Coal Rush - Our colleague and leader of the Midwest Clean Energy Campaign Bruce Nilles phoned in today from Wisconsin, elated to report that we won our legal case against the proposed Indeck-Elwood LLC coal-fired power plant outside Chicago. The federal Environmental Appeals Board ruled that the permit granted to this enormous coal plant was filled with errors. Congratulations Bruce! and thank you to the Chicago Legal Clinic for their assistance. This victory will keep approximately five million tons of pollutants, including greenhouse gases and mercury, out of the air.... for now.
Global Warming - I just finished preparing a talk I'm giving to a group of lawyers in San Francisco tomorrow, called: "An Incovenient Law." It's about the upcoming Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA and, among other things, whether the Clean Air Act says that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are "air pollutants" or not - stay tuned for our Washington D.C. lead counsel David Bookbinder's post on the case.
posted by Paddy G
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