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Press Release September 3, 2025

EPA Detiene Elaboración de Normas para Reducir la Contaminación del Agua de los Mataderos, Exponiendo a Millones de Estadounidenses

La decisión de la agencia permitirá que los mataderos y las plantas de procesamiento de alimentos sigan siendo los principales descargadores industriales de contaminación por nitrógeno y fósforo, aumentando el riesgo de que el agua no sea apta ni para beber ni para la recreación al aire libre, y que no sea habitable para la vida acuática.

Press Release September 2, 2025

EPA Halts Rulemaking to Reduce Water Pollution from Slaughterhouses, Leaving Tens of Millions of Americans at Risk

EPA’s decision will allow slaughterhouses and rendering facilities to remain leading industrial dischargers of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution, which can render water unsafe for drinking, unfit for outdoor recreation, and uninhabitable for aquatic life

document August 20, 2025

Motion: NESE for Leave and Answer

Intervenors respectfully request that the Commission deny Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC’s (Transco) Motion for Leave, or, alternatively, grant Intervenors’ Motion for Leave and consider Intervenors’ proposed Answer to Transco’s Answer when determining how to respond to Transco’s Petition.

document August 15, 2025

Comments: NESE WQC Application

Comments to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation – Division of Environmental Permits re: Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company, LLC’s 2025 application for Water Quality Certification (WQC) for the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project, insisting they deny it because the applicant again fails to demonstrate compliance with New York’s water quality standards.

Sediment fills waterways in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. (Courtesy of James Hiatt / For a Better Bayou)
Press Release August 13, 2025

Unauthorized Pollution and Filling of Waterways Associated with Gas Export Project Hurts Gulf Coast Shrimpers and Wildlife

Local group asks state and federal regulators for immediate enforcement action on potential Clean Water Act and other violations related to CP2 LNG

Downtown Seattle skyline. (Candice Cusack / Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory August 7, 2025

Washington Board Orders Wastewater Treatment Plant to Implement Stronger Pollution Controls

The Puget Soundkeeper victory is critical first step to address long-standing pollution from municipal wastewater that degrade water quality in Puget Sound

Reflejo del Capitolio sobre una fuente en Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg Creative via Getty)
Press Release July 22, 2025

Declaración de Earthjustice sobre Audiencia de Reforma de Permisos del Comité de Recursos Naturales de la Cámara de Representantes

“Las iniciativas de ‘reforma de permisos’, lideradas por los republicanos, no son más que un caballo de Troya para debilitar leyes ambientales fundamentales como la Ley de Agua Limpia y la Ley de Especies en Peligro de Extinción”.

The U.S. Capitol is reflected in a fountain in Washington, D.C.  (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg Creative via Getty)
Press Release July 22, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on House Natural Resources Committee Permitting Reform Hearing

“Republican-led ‘permitting reform’ efforts are nothing more than a trojan horse for weakening bedrock environmental laws like the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.”

document July 9, 2025

Air Products Fact Sheet – Comprehensive

A comprehensive fact sheet on Air Products Blue Energy LLC’s pursuit of an Army Corps Clean Water Act permit and Louisiana Coastal Use Permit.

North Denver community members, Lissa Leticia de Gonzales, Jose Molina and Lucy Molina, left to right, near the Suncor Refinery, which is heavily polluting their neighborhoods. (Carmel Zucker for Earthjustice)
feature July 3, 2025

Healthy Communities Program Report

The progress we have secured is a testament to the fact that the law and science are on our side. It also reflects the desire of most people across the country for a safer and cleaner world. Our shared wins represent decades of painstaking work, culminating in concrete measures that will save lives across the country. We’re celebrating our victories and the many opportunities ahead.

The St. James Boat Club launch, along Blind River, part of the Lake Maurepas watershed, in Gramercy, La. Environmental advocates are wary of anything that might make air quality worse or threaten wildlife, fearing a plant designed to capture climate-changing carbon and make clean-burning hydrogen fuel will actually do more harm to the Lake Maurepas basin. (Gerald Herbert / AP)
document July 1, 2025

Fact Sheet: Air Products’ Proposed Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Facility on Lake Maurepas

Air Products is in pursuit of an Army Corps’ Clean Water Act 404 permit and a Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources’ Coastal Use Permit (CUP) that would allow for the construction of a carbon sequestration facility.

Press Release June 30, 2025

Groups File Suit Over Approval of “Boondoggle” Yazoo Pumps Project

EPA and Army Corps illegally approved costly project without considering practicable alternatives

document June 30, 2025

Yazoo Pumps Complaint

Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.

document June 24, 2025

Protest and Motion: NESE

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) should deny Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC’s (Transco) Petition and require the company to file a new application, which the Commission should consider using its standard timeframe and process. The instant dockets effectively expired once FERC vacated the certificate and are not the appropriate place for FERC to be opening intervention windows, inviting comments and protests, or requesting additional information from Transco.

document June 11, 2025

Project Divestment of Air Products Blue Energy’s Proposed Louisiana Clean Energy Complex

Letter asking the Army Corp and the Office of Coastal Management at the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to suspend their respective processing of the pending applications of Air Products Blue Energy, LLC.

The Kuskokwim River provides a critical source of wild food and serves as a bedrock of identity and cultural values for Alaska Native Tribal citizens and community members living downstream from the Donlin mine site.
Press Release: Victory June 11, 2025

Court Orders Agencies to Revise Environmental Study Underlying Key Federal Permits for the Donlin Gold Mine

The U.S. District Court in Alaska orders the mine’s permitting agencies to take a more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by revising the project’s environmental study

document June 10, 2025

Donlin Mine: Order on Remedy

The U.S. District Court in Alaska issued a court order requiring Donlin Mine’s federal permitting agencies to take more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by supplementing the project’s environmental study,

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. (Matt Rourke / AP)
From the Experts May 19, 2025

Zeldin’s EPA Spin Is Full of Myths — Here’s the Reality

As EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin prepares to appear before Congress, his public claims unravel under the weight of the facts.