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In public utility commissions, Earthjustice is helping communities push for clean, affordable electricity for all.

We know that a 100% clean energy requires more electricity transmission lines. Now, the federal government has taken sweeping action to modernize and build out the grid.

New rules tackle long-standing challenges to building and paying for new transmission lines

A gas utility in Oregon tried to charge customers for its lobbying in schools — part of the gas industry’s longstanding efforts to push for increasing fossil fuel use nationwide. Then we stepped in.

For a decade, Earthjustice has advocated for a cleaner and more equitable energy system at the Colorado PUC—and we’re seeing progress.

Climate-killing crypto miner Greenidge Generation became a national story and test case for how states should handle the exploitative and extractive crypto mining industry

While Maryland passed several vital climate bills this session, the state budget includes last-minute rollbacks of crucial policies needed to meet the state’s climate goals.

The fate of U.S. clean energy development depends on building more transmission.

Efficient, modern, and clean. Heat pumps are heading for the industrial and commercial sectors in the nation’s manufacturing hub.

A fact sheet on California’s Modernizing Industrial Manufacturing Act (AB 2083), which will ensure California develops a plan to cut air and climate pollution from thousands of industrial facilities by transitioning to zero-emissions solutions.

Final updates to National Environmental Policy Act ensure that communities will not be sacrificed as clean energy infrastructure ramps up.

“This week’s votes are the anti-Earth week nobody asked for.”

The new rule will cut permitting time in half for major transmission projects while maintaining strong environmental standards.

Liz Moran, Policy Advocate, Northeast Office: “We have our state climate law on the books, and it doesn’t appear that the Assembly is committed to passing the laws we need to actually meet the mandates of the law they had once championed.”

A major victory for communities living near coal ash plants, the rule closes a loophole that left over half of coal ash exempt from federal clean-up requirements.

Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, NW Energy Coalition, Southern Environmental Law Center, Sustainable FERC Project, and WEACT for Environmental Justice comments on Department of Energy proposed rule 216(h) of the Federal Power Act.

New rule will help ensure our power system can support a clean energy future

A 15-year legal fight to curb toxic wastewater to protect drinking water.