Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs, Earthjustice: “With a Trump administration, it’s significantly more likely than in prior transitions that they will simply change their litigation position.”

Comments also support protections for mature trees

Ashley Bennett, Attorney, Northwest Office, Earthjustice: “Clean energy should not lead to increased logging and forest degradation, and it shouldn’t create greenhouse gas emissions. These facilities are just not good for the communities that they come into. They put public health at risk, put forests at risk, put the ecosystem at risk, and ultimately, they…

Katrina Tomas, Associate Attorney, California Regional Office: “This is dirty hydrogen, delivered by dirty trucks, for potentially dirty uses. If the port wants to build this project, it must do a better job explaining how it will clean up all of this pollution. At a time when the climate crisis is devastating our state with…

“True forest management requires engaging communities and utilizing proven best practices, not opening our lands to more reckless logging operations.”

U.S. Forest Service officials are traveling throughout Southeast Alaska to hear from residents about how they want our nation’s largest forest managed in coming decades.

Sasan Saadat, Research & Policy Analyst, California Office, Earthjustice: “We need to confront this reality that economic growth that depends on increased pollution can no longer be the thing we reach for.”

Opposition grows as poison pills appear in previews of the Farm Bill text by Republican House Ag Committee Chair Glenn Thompson which include reductions in key climate and nutrition programs and undercuts to bedrock environmental law and Endangered Species Act

In Kake, Alaska, protecting a temperate rainforest means protecting a way of life.

Legal intervention seeks to retain forest protections that support Tribes, communities, and sustainable local economies

Release of environmental review document kicks off a 90-day public comment period

Wide-ranging rule will include Bureau of Land Management forest policies

Hillary Aidun, Senior Associate Attorney, Northeast Regional Office: “As the Appellate Court made clear, people who drink water from a lake have every right to challenge decisions that could pollute that lake. We look forward to showing that that DEC has to follow it own waste management regulations and ensure that PFAS are properly handled…

Here are 10 reasons why industrial wood pellet production is a false solution to the climate crisis.

New Vilsack guidance to Forest Service falls short of protecting key forests

Unprecedented oil exports are clearly not in the public interest

The permit vastly underestimates harmful air pollution from the plant that would cause health impacts to residents in nearby communities

Mature and old-growth forests store and sequester a vast amount of carbon, making them an essential resource for achieving our nation’s climate commitments