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This past September, Earthjustice scored a huge victory for our roadless national forests when a federal district court ordered the reinstatement of the Roadless Rule.

The Roadless Rule protects roadless forest areas from road-building and most logging. This is bad news for the timber, mining, and oil & gas industries ... And so they're putting pressure on their friends in the Bush Administration to challenge the victory.

Roadless area logging tends to target irreplaceable old growth forests. Many of these majestic trees have stood for hundreds of years. By targeting old-growth, the timber companies are ...   more »

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What's scarier than ghosts or goblins this Halloween? How about chocolate treats made from child labor?

Almost half of the world's cocoa is produced on West African plantations where widespread instances of child slavery, human trafficking, and forced labor have been reported.

Unless multi-billion dollar candy companies like Nestle and Mars (the makers of M&Ms;) take the lead, most, if not all the chocolate in your local supermarket will continue to be made at the cost of human life.

The solution? Chocolate that's Fair Trade Certified. Fair Trade standards do not permit forced labor or ...   more »