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Northeast

About Our Work

The Northeast is one of the most populated areas of the country, and protecting the region's public health is one of our top priorities. Our Northeast office halts the discharge of toxic chemicals into drinking water, cleans up abandoned waste sites, and pushes for greater consumer safety measures for household cleaners. In addition, our focus on curbing the use of fossil fuels aims to move the Northeast towards a more sustainable energy future.

 

Quick Facts

Year opened: 2008
Meet our staff:
   · Managing Attorney Deborah Goldberg, on fracking
   · Attorney Marianne Engleman Lado, on confined animal feeding operations and public health
   · Attorney Abbie Dillen, on planning for a clean energy future

 

Office Information

156 William Street, Suite 800
New York, NY  10038
(212) 845-7376
neoffice @earthjustice.org

1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 1675
Philadelphia, PA  19103
(215) 717-4520
neoffice @earthjustice.org

 

Office Spotlight

Earthjustice Managing Attorney Deborah Goldberg was a panelist on a nationally broadcast debate presented by Intelligence Squared in partnership with the Aspen Ideas Festival. Goldberg and Katherine Hudson of Riverkeeper will debated NY Times columnist Joe Nocera and former DOE Assistant Secretary Susan Tierney. The motion: "No Fracking Way: The Natural Gas Boom Is Doing More Harm than Good".  Read more.

The Latest

Protecting Seneca Lake from Gas Industry Infrastructure Projects
Two gas industry infrastructure projects are proposed for underground salt caverns on the shores of Seneca Lake, in the Finger Lakes region of Western New York. They would involve large-scale storage facilities with new capacity for 88 million gallons of liquid petroleum gasand additional capacity for natural gas, expanding storage to 2 billion cubic feet. Environmental advocates are concerned that these projects will lock the region into continued extraction and use of dirty fossil fuels and discourage the growth of renewable energy.
Advocates Demand NY Follow Feds' Start, Require Thorough Review Of Gas Storage Projects
Controversial projects in NY's Finger Lakes subject of local concern, nationwide attention
Court Rules Against Industry Efforts to Hide Health Effects of Styrene
Styrene can be listed as potential carcinogen; public’s right to know upheld
Public's Right to Know: Styrene
Earthjustice and a coalition of groups are working to make sure the government can alert the American public to the potential dangers of styrene, a chemical used extensively in the manufacture of plastics, as well as boats, cars, bathtubs and products made with rubber, such as tires and conveyer belts.
Protecting Chesapeake Bay from LNG Export Terminal
Earthjustice and a coalition of local, regional, and national groups are objecting to the environmental impacts posed by the proposed Dominion Cove Point liquefied natural gasexport terminal on the Chesapeake Bay, saying the project would hurt the Bay’s economy and ecology, increase air pollution, and hasten fracking and drilling in neighboring states.
Protecting America's First National River
A coalition of conservation and citizen groups, represented by Earthjustice, have sent a notice of intent to sue to the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding its Farm Service Agency’s loan guarantee for an industrial 6,500-pig swine facility on the banks of a tributary that flows straight into the Buffalo National River—an action that was not properly examined and may violate the Endangered Species Act. The facility, C&H Hog Farms, is under contract with Cargill, an international producer and marketer of agricultural products.
Conservation Groups Notify USDA of ESA Violations Related to Arkansas Swine Facility
Animal waste from factory farm could jeopardize endangered species, contaminate America’s first national river
Environmental Coalition Presses For Thorough Review of Dominion Cove Point LNG Export Terminal
First-of-its-kind facility on East Coast would hurt Chesapeake and hasten nearby fracking