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Crypto mines have raised electricity rates for households while receiving big discounts and subsidies

The Ninth Circuit reversed Guam District Court’s decision, which insulated the Air Force from accountability for violating its duty to consider environmental impacts, alternatives to blowing up hazardous waste explosives on Tarague Beach

The Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies will wreak havoc on laws that protect everyone’s health and the environment.

People’s Collective for Environmental Justice, Sierra Club, and Industrious Labs move to intervene as defendants in Rinnai America Corp., et al., v. South Coast Air Quality Management District

Gas industry lawsuit seeks to intimidate Southern California’s air regulator from pursuing vital rules to replace gas-powered equipment with zero-emissions technology

“We elected our leaders to work for us, not corporate polluters.”

Long Beach becomes the second city in California to electrify 100% of its garbage truck fleet

Letter urging immediate steps to protect the people of Pennsylvania from being exposed to the harmful chemicals contained in sewage sludge by instructing the Department of Environmental Protection to begin a comprehensive analysis and assessment of sludge disposal in the state that accounts for its “beneficial use” program allowing for the disposal of over 130,000 dry tons of sludge every year on farmlands around the state, where it is having a detrimental impact on communities and surrounding waterways and airways.

Hillary Aidun, Attorney, Northeast Office: “Brookhaven should not release Covanta from liability for a small amount of money especially given the need for remediation and the fact that there are a number of pending lawsuits against Brookhaven resulting from the landfill.”

The EPA has ousted all members of two key science panels, signaling an alarming shift in agency priorities

Agency modifies 2020 order allowing state to assume responsibility for federal environmental programs on tribal lands

California’s standards help clean the air we breathe and improve health outcomes for millions of Americans

Gilbert Zelaya, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “We’re talking about decades of pollution that these communities have had to endure. Right now they’re doing nothing. … To us, that means the DEC is sending the message that they don’t care about the health and well-being of these communities.”

Deena Tumeh, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “The executive order frames the right to clean air and water as a ‘merit-based opportunity’ — that is frankly dystopian.”

NYS-DEC approved polluting gas plant permit renewal without complying with NY’s nation-leading climate law; toxic air pollution remains in the area with lowest life expectancy rate on Long Island

Brookhaven Landfill Action and Remediation Group (BLARG), Long Island Progressive Coalition (LIPC), and the Sierra Club represented by Earthjustice filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York-Nassau County against the NYS-Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Caithness Long Island LLC, over the unlawful air permit renewal and non-compliance with New York’s landmark climate law.

“Nuestras organizaciones seguirán defendiendo con firmeza las protecciones climáticas y lucharán contra los planes del presidente Trump que dañarían nuestro medio ambiente, nuestra salud, nuestra economía y nuestro clima”.

“Si bien no es sorprendente, no deja de ser alarmante que la administración Trump no haya perdido tiempo en revertir políticas abrumadoramente populares que salvan vidas”.