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July 18, 2001
Earthjustice Lawsuit Challenges EPA's Failure to Crack Down on Supertoxins
Continuing to stress the need for stronger and timelier implementation of clean air safeguards, Earthjustice today filed the third of seven lawsuits challenging the federal government's chronic failure to protect Americans from the health hazards of toxic air pollution.
July 18, 2001
Citizens Sue Over Urban Sprawl Threat To Puget Sound Salmon
In an effort to protect rare salmon habitat, Pilchuck Audubon Society and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility today filed a challenge in federal district court to a development project along the banks of the Snohomish River in Everett, Washington.
July 17, 2001
Earthjustice Lawsuit Challenges EPA'S Failure to Control Hazardous Air Pollution in Cities
Responding to a rash of missed clean air deadlines, Earthjustice today filed the second of seven lawsuits challenging the federal government's chronic failure to protect Americans from the health hazards of toxic air pollution. Earthjustice represents Sierra Club in its second suit this week against the Environmental Protection Agency.
July 17, 2001
San Joaquin Valley Medical Community and Environmental Groups Announce Upcoming Lawsuit To Enforce Clean Air Act
Medical, community, and environmental groups announce intention to sue U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District in 60 days for failure to stop the unhealthy air pollution in San Joaquin Valley.
July 16, 2001
Earthjustice Lawsuits Challenge Widespread Defects in Federal Toxics Program
Earthjustice today filed the first of seven lawsuits challenging the federal government's chronic failure to protect Americans from the health hazards of toxic air pollution. The defendant is the very agency tasked with providing such protection: the Environmental Protection Agency.
July 16, 2001
Clean Water Act Program Next Target of Bush Rollbacks
Reacting to a decision by the Bush administration to reconsider provisions of an important Clean Water Act program, Earthjustice called today's action another example of the Bush team trying to use backdoor tactics to derail important environmental protections in the United States.
July 13, 2001
Earthjustice Statement on Decision not to Empanel Endangered Species Committee in Klamath Basin.
Earthjustice agrees with Interior Dept. decision rejecting God Squad petition to review Klamath Basin issues.
July 10, 2001
Groups Ask Judge To Prevent Buffalo Slaughter
Coalition of conservationists file suit over continued cattle grazing in critical buffalo winter range on national forest land adjacent to Yellowstone
June 29, 2001
Residents of Louisiana and Texas Demand Bush Administration Safeguard Public Health in Their Communities
Gulf coast citizen activists battling for clean air traveled today to Washington, D.C. to confront the Bush administration on the public health impacts of its energy plan.
June 26, 2001
Conservationists Win Lawsuit Contesting Roads On Public Lands
Federal judge says Utah counties violated federal law when they used heavy equipment to grade abandoned jeeps trails on federal public lands.
June 21, 2001
Earthjustice Challenges Interior Secretary Gale Norton on Grizzlies
Interior Secretary Norton's grizzly stance falls short of what grizzlies really need.
June 21, 2001
Fishermen Call For Congressional Hearing Over Klamath Water
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations calls on Congress to hold a field hearing in Eureka, California on the effects of the Klamath Basin water shortage.
June 21, 2001
Court Asked to Order EPA Action on Imperial Valley Air Pollution
Earthjustice asked a federal court to order EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to decide within 90 days whether Imperial Valley, CA must be reclassified under the Clean Air Act to a more serious air pollution category.
June 13, 2001
California Rivers, Streams and Wetlands Under Attack
California developers filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to undo critical habitat protections for the threatened California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii), the amphibian made famous by Mark Twain's story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
June 8, 2001
Conservation and Fishing Groups Challenge Army Corps' Decision
Environmental and fishing groups ask a federal judge to order the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to address water quality standard violations caused by the operation of four dams on the lower Snake River.