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For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

Pomeroy Dam, on the Illinois River in Oregon, was successfully demolished.

Montana’s Colstrip plant asks Trump administration for clean air standard exemption

Jim Pew, Director of Federal Clean Air Practice, Earthjustice: “It’s hard to imagine how these exemptions could be lawful.”

Utah sought to dismiss lawsuit over its failure to protect the Great Salt Lake

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “The most important thing to understand is that we are seeing a wholesale approach to eradicating environmental protections. This is the hatchet not the scalpel. So it’s everything from the water you drink and the air you breathe, to the food you eat and the basic products you buy. If…

We’re creating a zero-emissions reality from coast to coast.

Marvin C. Brown IV, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “EPA is losing the E and the P from its name. It seems like the agency is really giving up on protecting the environment and human health. People will die from the unnecessary amounts of pollution.”

Deena Tumeh, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “The Trump EPA’s decision to drop this enforcement case leaves the St. John community without sufficient federal protection, and it leaves them at the mercy of industry. It allows these emissions to continue harming people who’ve already been breathing it for years. The Trump EPA claims to care about…

Shannon Fisk, Director of State Electric Sector Advocacy, Clean Energy Program: “Just coming in with a sledgehammer and destroying it all makes absolutely no sense and will be terrible for the public.”

Farmers have been stripped of vital digital resources due to the Trump Administration’s climate webpage purge; Motion seeks to restore access and prevent additional webpage removals

Here’s what the plans mean for air, water, climate, and more.

When companies burn coal in the U.S., significant amounts of mercury spew into our air. Now, that mercury is controlled, thanks to a federal rule that Earthjustice and our clients fought for, defended, and successfully expanded.

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “Executive orders direct other agencies to take action, and they certainly set policy and tone. But they cannot and do not replace requirements of congressionally enacted laws.”

Congress introduced a CRA that could permanently remove protections safeguarding communities from some of the most toxic air pollution

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “If you use all that cheap, clean hydro(power) for crypto mining, then humans and small businesses can’t use it and then they have to go somewhere else for that energy — and often it is fossil fuel-based.”

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “This is not the kind of stately tennis match of the usual switch-over in administrations. This is full on Fight Club.”

Steve Mashuda, Managing Attorney, Oceans Program: “If you’re concerned about whales being harmed by offshore energy, I’ve got a whale in the Gulf of Mexico I’d like you to meet. The Deepwater Horizon spill killed close to a quarter of the population alone. The Gulf doesn’t belong to the oil industry, the Gulf belongs to…