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Without a Sustainable Ag Plan, Sugar Company Must Leave Water in the Streams
Hawaiʻi’s last sugarcane plantation is closing, but plantation politics are still playing a huge role in allocating Hawaiʻi’s water resources.
Read MoreCopping Out on Copper Mine Contamination
After decades of delay, financial assurance regulations will push polluters to clean up their toxic messes in a timely manner and encourage companies to avoid making messes in the first place.
Read MoreFive (True!) Tall Tales About Trees
This Arbor Day, we’re celebrating the holiday with five fun facts about trees, along with a list of the various ways that Earthjustice is working to save these invaluable organisms.
Read MoreCongress Begins Pushing ‘Poison–Pill’ Riders Once Again
As Congress negotiates annual budget deals, members sneak ideological provisions that would never pass in their own right into important funding bills.
Read MoreCommitting to Clean Up Their Own Messes
America’s dirtiest industrial polluters will now be legally accountable for paying for their clean-ups thanks to the EPA’s financial assurance rules.
Read MoreCenter on Race, Poverty and the Environment Reports on EPA Failures
This week the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE) released a startling report that looks into the institutional failures of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read MoreForty Years of Waiting to Save the Last Wild Lobos
Four decades after listing, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will finally have to complete a plan to recover the Mexican gray wolf.
Read MoreSign on the Line: Declaring Our Independence From Fossil Fuels
On Earth Day, nearly 170 countries signed the global climate deal reached in Paris last December.
Read MoreEn Una Gran Victoria Para El Clima, New York Rechaza Ducto Para Gas Fracturado
En Albany, el gobernador Andrew Cuomo anunció que su administración estaba negando un permiso clave para la construcción de un proyecto masivo de infraestructura para combustibles fósiles—un ducto para gas fracturado de 125 millas de longitud y conocido como Constitution.
Read MoreEPA’s Smog Rule Falls Short of Protecting People’s Health, the Environment
The EPA recently set a weak smog standard, ignoring calls from medical professionals and community groups.
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