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Lame Settlement on Alkali Lake Toxic Waste Dump Thwarted
2 May 2012
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Do You Need To See It To Believe It?
25 Apr 2012
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Nestlé Issue Transcends Environmental Movement
30 Mar 2012
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Lame Settlement on Alkali Lake Toxic Waste Dump Thwarted
Alaska Archive
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Darkness, Light and Hope
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe Winter Solstice – the darkest day of the year – is my favorite holiday. It offers the opportunity to reflect on the darkness of the past four seasons, to embrace that darkness and all it has taught us, and to let the darkness go... -
Court Rejects Old-Growth Clearcuts in the Tongass National Forest
Posted on August 3, 2011 | 1 CommentCrag recently won a key victory in the fight to preserve old-growth forest and wildlife habitat in the Tongass National Forest. In the case – Greenpeace v. Cole – the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out four old-growth timber sales that would have logged... -
Appeals Board Rejects Air Permits for Offshore Drilling in the Arctic
Posted on January 4, 2011 | No CommentsLate last week, the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB or Board) in Washington, DC rejected two air permits issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Shell Oil for proposed offshore drilling projects in the Arctic. The Crag Law Center represented local Inupiat organizations in the... -
Challenging Arctic Oil Drilling to Protect Native Fishing Grounds
Posted on December 15, 2009 | No CommentsThe Crag Law Center today filed a legal challenge to an offshore exploration plan approved by the Minerals Management Service in the Beaufort Sea in Alaska. Crag is working with local Native groups, including the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, a regional tribal government,...