CLF welcomes its brand new group of 2010 summer interns. CLF’s summer internship program gives undergraduate and graduate students a unique real-world experience in the world of environmental law, as well as communications, development and other aspects of daily operations here at CLF. Some may even be posting to this very blog! They are: Massachusetts…
Jun 2
2010
2010
Jun 2
2010
2010
Radioactive Fish & Zebras
Over the weekend a fish found in the Connecticut river near Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant was confirmed to be contaminated with strontium-90. Only a few days before, it was revealed that strontium-90 is contaminating the soil at the Vermont Yankee site. Strontium-90 is a dangerous radioactive substance. Don’t you think these events are connected? I…
May 27
2010
2010
Vermont Yankee Shuts Down
I loved the newspaper headline that greeted me this morning. Did we win in our request to shut the plant down until the leaks are repaired and the site is cleaned up? Not yet. It seems Vermont Yankee simply hasn’t figured out how to put the plug back in after refueling. Yankee’s unexpected emergency shut down…
May 25
2010
2010
Watch the BP Oil Spill Live Feed…
As the oil disaster continues in the gulf, watch the live feed below (windows media player required). Angry? Frustrated? Had enough? Click here to tell President Obama to take action today – and help us prevent an oil disaster in New England.
May 25
2010
2010
Way Past Time for an Intervention
Today’s story in the New York Times regarding collusion and corruption between the Mineral Management Service and the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico is stunning. But, “stunning” is less than surprising when it comes to the many ways in which MMS and the Department of Interior has allowed the oil industry to dictate the terms of oil…
May 20
2010
2010
The Face of Responsibility
The BP oil disaster has now reached its one month anniversary. No viable solutions are at hand for shutting down the underwater geyser, cleaning up the soiled marshes or restoring the damaged economies of coastal communities. The “outhouse” failed and the “top hat,” “top kill” and “junk shot” are still theories. What’s the performance assessment from the BP…
May 19
2010
2010
“All Legitimate Claims”: Echoes of Exxon Valdez
From the first time I heard a BP official (May 3, 2010 on NPR) promise to pay “all legitimate claims” arising from the massive “Deepwater Horizon” discharge of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, my mind turned immediately to the epic legal drama that unfolded in the poisonous wake of the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster.…
May 18
2010
2010
Whole-body scans, oil-sucking tubes, and the limits of technology
I had my first whole-body x-ray at the Denver International Airport last night. The amiable attendant jerked his head up and over his right shoulder as he explained that the scan was read by someone far above in the cavernous hall. He then listened for a moment to his earpiece and asked if I was sure…
May 18
2010
2010
What you can do to change the world . . . and the “tar balls” washing up in Key West tell you it needs to change !
As recently as this morning the Coast Guard was asserting that oil from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had not entered the “loop current” that travels around the tip of Florida over to the East Coast. And now it appears the oil is hitting Florida as tar balls appear in Key West…
May 17
2010
2010
Attend the Vermont Yankee Public Hearing.
Now is our chance. On Thursday, May 27, the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) will hold a public hearing on whether to shut down Vermont Yankee right now, instead of waiting until 2012. You will have the opportunity to tell the PSB what you think—whether the PSB should shut down the plant now, or take…