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With more than a dozen major environmental rules recently finalized, here’s what the administration should do as soon as possible to secure a lasting impact.

Final updates to National Environmental Policy Act ensure that communities will not be sacrificed as clean energy infrastructure ramps up.

The new rule will cut permitting time in half for major transmission projects while maintaining strong environmental standards.

The Biden administration’s updates bring certainty and clarity to project sponsors, while strengthening upfront community engagement

“People should care about what’s going on here because all of us benefit from the goods movement system — no matter where you live.”

The fossil fuel industry is backsliding on its climate pledges. Earthjustice is filing lawsuits to keep pushing for the clean energy transition that science demands.

The so-called “Inflexible” gas regulation creates a fiction to lower the price of LNG.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration raises concerns about energy-intensive cryptocurrency mining operations, will seek comments on reporting requirements.

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

Letter comes on eve of the 14th anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “We see this as the first shot across the bow informing the utilities and states and stakeholders that EPA indeed does find significant noncompliance with the coal ash rule.”

The EPA’s denial directly addresses environmental and health concerns regarding the impacts turbines’ emissions have on people

Tailpipe emissions pollute the air causing public health harms and exacerbate the climate crisis; Clean Deliveries Act will drive legislative and zero-emission solutions

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The petition asks EPA to regulate PFAS created that leach from more than 100 million fluorinated plastic containers into household products and the environment

Read Earthjustice’s most recent annual report, in addition to annual reports from previous years.

Stronger standards would prevent hundreds of millions of pounds of pollution from reaching rivers and streams, helping to protect more than 22 million people

Hana Vizcarra, Attorney, Earthjustice: “We are saying not only does the SEC have the authority to require these types of disclosures, in fact they made a mistake by dropping some very crucial disclosure requirements that were in the proposal — and a mistake that just is fundamentally wrong.”