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Hostile Environment

A report jointly released on July 18, 2001 by Community Rights Counsel, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Alliance for Justice, documents the threat that anti-environmental judicial activists sitting on the federal bench pose to protections for our air, water, and land.

Read the full report in PDF version.

You can also read the press release; the letter written to U.S. Senators, urging the careful scrutiny of judicial nominees and signed by the Executive Directors of twelve environmental groups; a press statement by CRC's Executive Director; media coverage by Environment News Service, and  an opinion piece by CRC's Executive Director on one of Bush's judicial nominees.