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Environmental groups gain new perspective of Tijuana River pollution

October 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Tijuana River is one of America’s most endangered rivers because of pollution, according to the American Rivers 2024 report.This week the nonprofit EcoFlight gave a group of advocates, nonprofit leaders and government representatives a bird’s-eye view of the area to better understand the causes of the pollution.Ramon Chairez, with the nonprofit ...
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EcoFlight: A bird’s eye view of the Tijuana River Valley

October 21, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post: watch the video➡️ IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. (KGTV)— On Monday, a group of environmental advocates, researchers, and industry professionals got a bird’ s-eye view of the Tijuana River Valley.They boarded a flight provided by EcoFlight, a non-profit focused on conservation and environmental justice efforts.“It’s my home. It’s where I grew up, it’s where I ...
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Residents of White Mesa say uranium mill is polluting their water

October 7, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ This April 11, 2015, photo provided by EcoFlight shows the White Mesa Uranium Mill near Blanding in southeastern Utah. Members of a small tribal community in Southern Utah were protesting at the capitol, saying their water is being polluted with Uranium. (Dom Smith/EcoFlight via AP) WHITE MESA, Utah — Members of White ...
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Feds on track to finalize coal leasing ban despite Wyoming, industry protests

October 7, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ In July 2024, aerial shot depicts a load-out silo and the Black Thunder coal mine in the southern Powder River Basin. Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile, courtesy EcoFlight Federal land managers have rejected protests filed by coal mining interests — including the state of Wyoming and representatives of two of its counties — that tried ...
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A coal power plant demolition serves as a poignant historical moment for the Navajo

October 5, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post: Listen to the Story ➡️ In a small plane flying west out of Farmington, N.M., America’s energy transition appeared to be proceeding in an orderly fashion — a sea change measurable in megawatts, acreage and emission particle parts per million.Mike Eisenfeld of San Juan Citizens Alliance was our tour guide, his voice crackling over the ...
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Support builds for Santa Cruz River refuge from Mexico to Marana

September 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post: Listen to the story ➡️ A view of the Santa Cruz River looking north during an EcoFlight aerial tour in Tucson on Sept. 24. Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star Like water rolling downhill, momentum is building behind a proposed national wildlife refuge on the Santa Cruz River through Southern Arizona.The most recent show ...
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An Aerial View of Proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary

September 27, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Eyes in the Sky Look Down on Soon-to-Be Sanctuary from Santa Barbara to Cambria On the clear afternoon of Tuesday, September 17, I squeezed into a small aircraft at the Central Coast Jet Center. As we took off, I watched through the window as the world turned into sliding frames of land, ...
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Groups push to classify Santa Cruz River as urban national refuge

September 27, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Mike Quigley, the state director for The Wilderness Society, discusses the proposal for a Urban National Wildlife Refuge in Pima and Santa Cruz counties during a flyover of the Santa Cruz River. Photo by Daisy Zavala Magaña EcoFlight, a non-profit educating about the environment through flight excursions, offers a small group a ...
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How Colorado Cowboys and Conservationists Joined Forces to Stop Drilling

September 18, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The members of a self-described ragtag group had little in common, but their campaign could serve as model for future environmental efforts. The Bush administration started issuing oil and gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in the early 2000s in an effort to expand production on public lands. The drilling leases ...
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CuMo exploration project could become an Idaho mine. Environmental groups are worried.

September 13, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Potential site may have minerals key to climate change fight. Environmental groups worry exploration could have unforeseen consequences.  The CuMo Exploration Project aims to search for minerals that could lead to a mine years later in mountains outside Boise. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun) For now, the CuMo Exploration Project is just that: ...
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