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The Latest by Bala Sivaraman

Public Affairs and Communications Associate for Partnerships and Intersectional Justice

Based in Washington, D.C., Bala drives public awareness for Earthjustice's clients and their casework by drafting blogs, op-eds and press releases, while also conducting background research and analysis.

A group of construction workers with heavy equipment work on a pipe in a large hole in the ground.
December 11, 2024

Communities’ Fight Against Gas Pipeline Projects Heats Up

By Bala Sivaraman & Alexandria Trimble  /  Northeast Office

The courts are striking down more FERC gas approvals. But the fight isn’t over to keep gas pipelines out of our communities.

LNG transport ship at the New Fortress Energy facility in San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico.
November 18, 2024

Puerto Rico’s Grassroots Fight to Stop an Illegal Methane Gas Expansion

By Bala Sivaraman  /  Florida Office

Communities in San Juan are battling to stop a rogue gas company’s efforts to push dangerous methane gas on the people of Puerto Rico.

A man speaks into a microphone among a crowd of people holding signs for climate justice.
June 11, 2024

How This Faith Group Took on a Fight for Climate Justice and Stopped Energy Bills From Skyrocketing

By Bala Sivaraman  /  Clean Energy Program

With legal support from Earthjustice, a faith-based group in Philadelphia took the fight for clean, cheaper energy to the public utility commission and won.

A landscape photo of a river with two canoes full of people.
June 3, 2024

Klamath River Dam Removal Is a Victory for Tribes

By Bala Sivaraman  /  Northwest Office

After a century of ecological collapse, steelhead and salmon in the Klamath River now have a fighting chance at a full recovery.

Three people in white traditional clothes stand in a green valley.
May 31, 2024

A Landmark Victory for Peace in Hawai’i’s Sacred Mākua Valley

By Bala Sivaraman  /  Mid-Pacific Office

The U.S. Army is formally ending live-fire training in Mākua Valley – a critical step towards restoring peace to a spiritual refuge ravaged by a century of militarization.

Former Bad River Tribal Chairman Mike Wiggins Jr. at the Tribe's reservation in Wisconsin where Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline crosses.
January 31, 2022

How a Shoddy Environmental Review Could Cause a Catastrophic Oil Spill in Wisconsin

By Bala Sivaraman  /  Tribal Partnerships Program

Wisconsin’s inadequate environmental analysis of Enbridge’s rushed and haphazard Line 5 pipeline reroute does grave injustice to frontline Tribal communities.

A Native American community member places a hand on the Red Road totem pole during a tour stop at Greater Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico.
July 31, 2021

Indigenous Heritage Sites Are at Risk of Destruction. Biden Can Change That.

By Bala Sivaraman  /  Tribal Partnerships Program

A historic totem pole journey builds pressure on the Biden administration to fulfill promises made to the first peoples of America’s lands and waters.

Danny Lane, right, gives his friend Walter Byrd a push as Byrd prepares to head down a flooded Centreville street in June 2015. Firefighters evacuated residents earlier in the day.
July 17, 2020

In the Heartland, Human Waste Floods Homes

By Bala Sivaraman  /  Midwest Office

Centreville community members are pushing for solutions to this environmental injustice.