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Montpelier resident Ben Cheney and a companion survey rising floodwaters at the intersection of State and Main streets in downtown Montpelier, Vermont, on July 10, 2023. (Jeb Wallace-Brodeur / The Times Argus via AP)
Article June 30, 2025

Climate Change Is Driving Extreme Rainfall

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

A woman protects her face while walking in white-out conditions in Jersey City, N.J., Feb. 1, 2021. The winter storm dropped more than two feet of snow on the area and may have broken a 122-year-old snowfall record for the state. (Seth Wenig / AP)
Article June 30, 2025

Winter Storms Are Hitting Harder Due to Climate Change

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

Houston residents escape flooded homes and businesses, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
Article June 30, 2025

Climate Change Is Causing Sea Level Rise and Flooding

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

A man wipes his brow as he walks under misters on July 13, 2023 in downtown Phoenix. Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Southern California are getting hit with 100-degree-plus temps and excessive heat warnings. (Matt York / AP)
Article June 30, 2025

Climate Change Is Making Extreme Heat Worse

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

Firefighters battle the Eaton Fire in strong winds as many homes burn on January 7, 2025 in Pasadena, California. (David McNew / Getty Images)
Article June 30, 2025

Climate Change Is Making Wildfires Burn Longer and Wider

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

Damaged houses are seen after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, on Sept. 28, 2024. (Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images)
Article June 30, 2025

Climate Change Is Making Hurricanes More Intense

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

document June 26, 2025

Testimony of Lisa Evans Before Congress

Earthjustice Senior Counsel Lisa Evans was the sole witness invited by the minority to testify before the Subcommittee on Environment hearing titled “A Decade Later: A Review of Congressional Action, Environmental Protection Agency Rules, and Beneficial Use Opportunities for Coal Ash” on June 26, 2025.

Press Release June 18, 2025

Ten Groups Push Back Against Trump’s Illegal Campbell Plant Extension

Public interest groups challenge the Department of Energy’s sham order

document June 18, 2025

Motion to Intervene and Request for Rehearing of Order No. 202-25-3, Campbell Power Plant

On June 18, 2025 public interest groups challenged the Department of Energy’s illegal extension of the J.H. Campbell power plant past its planned expiration.

Press Release June 13, 2025

Public Advocates Fight Attempt to Fast-Track Fossil Fuels

Protest filed with FERC against the Southwest Power Pool’s proposal to fast-track gas power plants

Press Release June 12, 2025

Trump and his EPA Sued for Creating Email Shortcut Around Clean Air Protections

Groups challenge unlawful order that let 68 power plants avoid mercury and arsenic limits

The Kingston Fossil Plant is a 1.4-gigawatt coal-fired power plant located in Roane County, outside of Kingston, Tenn., on the shore of Watts Bar Lake. It is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Trump administration has exempted the plant from pollution limits set in the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. (Paul Harris / Getty Images)
Update June 12, 2025

Trump’s EPA Said Polluters Could Email Their Way Out of Clean Air Laws. We’re Sending It a Lawsuit.

Sixty-eight coal plants can now release more mercury, arsenic, and other heavy metals known to damage children’s brain development, trigger asthma attacks, and cause cancer.

document June 12, 2025

Coal Plant Exemptions

Community and environmental groups represented by Earthjustice sued the Trump administration over its unlawful decision to exempt dozens of coal-fired power plants from stronger pollution limits set in the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS. The exemptions, issued in April, allow 68 coal power plants to release more mercury, arsenic, and other heavy metals known to damage children’s brain development, trigger asthma attacks, and cause cancer.

The 68 coal-fired power plants exempted from mercury and arsenic pollution limits span 23 states. (Source: <a href="https://www.edf.org/maps/epa-pollution-pass/" class="a_color--black">Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Integrity Project analysis of EPA data</a>)
feature June 12, 2025

Corporations Emailed. Then 68 Power Plants Got a Pass to Pollute.

Using a loophole, the Trump administration exempted coal power plants from mercury and arsenic limits, polluting the air we breathe.

Emissions from a stack at the Mitchell Power Plant, a coal powered plant, in Moundsville, West Virginia. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 11, 2025

Trump’s EPA Abandons Its Duty to Protect Public from Power Plant Air Pollution

EPA seeks to end limits on mercury and arsenic and climate pollution, increasing harm to communities and reversing progress on climate action

An expansive view of the Bull Mountains in Montana. (Northern Plains Resource Council)
Press Release June 6, 2025

Interior Approves Expansion for Lawless Montana Coal Mine Without Public Review

Administration cites fake “energy emergency” in failing to produce draft EIS

From the Experts June 6, 2025

The Trump Administration Forces Power Plants to Continue Burning Fossil Fuels

Department of Energy’s abuse of power charges consumers for an emergency that doesn’t exist.

North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. (EcoFlight)
From the Experts June 3, 2025

The Republican Megabill’s Big Coal Handouts

Leasing more of our public lands to coal companies and padding their bottom lines will do nothing to promote energy security or reduce costs for everyday Americans.