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The Latest State to Buck Trump on Paris: Colorado

With Colorado committing to the Paris Agreement, Earthjustice attorney Michael Hiatt highlights four reasons why clean energy in the state is poised for significant growth.

Devastating Federal Forest Bill Would Clear Cut National Forests and Silence Our Dissent

Clear-cut logging operations have already devastated forests in Oregon. This bill will allow even larger areas to be razed for timber production without public comment.

Rather than protect national forests, this bill is a gift to the timber industry.

Demandamos A La Administración Trump Por Demorar Protecciones Contra El Terrible Gas Metano. De Nuevo.

Operaciones de petróleo y gas cerca de zonas residenciales en Colorado.

Earthjustice demandó este mes a la Oficina de Administración de Tierras (BLM, por sus siglas en inglés) por demorar regulaciones contra el gas metano, uno de los principales causantes del efecto invernadero que amenaza la salud de millones de personas y el clima del planeta.

La EPA retrasa normas para plantas químicas poniendo en peligro a comunidades de color

El 6 de agosto de 2012, un incendio y una explosión en una refinería Chevron en Richmond, California, causó que 15,000 personas necesitaran tratamiento médico.

Pam Nixon vive en una zona de West Virginia que llaman “Valle Químico”, rodeada de industrias que manejan químicos tóxicos e inflamables. Durante los 65 años que ha vivido allí, Pam ha tenido que refugiarse en casa y sellar sus ventanas repetidas veces por alertas de fugas químicas.

Litigator, Mother and Climate Champion: Abbie Dillen Is a Name You Should Know

A conversation with Abbie Dillen, clean energy powerhouse and working mother

Seismic Blasting Would Deafen Marine Mammals

The endangered North Atlantic right whale is just one of the marine animals that seismic testing off the East Coast would harm.

As companies search for oil and gas deposits buried beneath the ocean floor in the Atlantic, whales and dolphins could suffer permanent hearing damage and even death.

Trump Revoked Key Pesticide Protections. We're Fighting Back.

The EPA has said that the protections would prevent at least a thousand acute poisonings every year.

Trump's EPA took away key protections to prevent poisonings in homes and fields. Earthjustice and Farmworker Justice are suing the EPA in response.

EPA delay imperils communities of color near chemical plants

On August 6, 2012, a fire and explosion at a Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. caused 15,000 people to seek medical treatment.

African American and Latino communities will be harmed most by the EPA’s delay of a lifesaving chemical safety rule.

Saving Northern Maine’s Economic Gem

: Local business owner Matthew Polstein is fighting the threatened repeal of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument because the new monument has already ramped up tourism and bolstered the regional economy.