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The Latest by Jessica A. Knoblauch

Senior Staff Writer

Jessica is a former award-winning journalist. She enjoys wild places and dispensing justice, so she considers her job here to be a pretty amazing fit.

Karina Montoya, whose mother is an agricultural worker, was among the Oxnard, California, teens who spoke out against a proposed gas plant in their hometown.
March 23, 2018

A Fossil Fuel Company Tried to Put a Dirty Gas Plant on a Beautiful Coastline. It Failed.

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  California Office

California regulators’ latest move to reject the short-sighted proposal is a turning point in the state’s clean energy future.

Joel Minor
March 19, 2018

Trump Admin Just Lost Another Attempt to Nix Commonsense Rules on Methane

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  California Office

The “little rule that could” is back in effect, saving lives and generating millions in taxpayer dollars.

Two wolves in the winter forest
March 16, 2018

Out for Blood: Legislators Escalate Their War on Wolves

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  Northern Rockies Office & Policy and Legislation Team

Some legislators have pushed an all-out war on wolves for years. Now they’re going in for the ultimate kill: gutting the very law that protects this iconic species.

Bruce Lanphear
March 12, 2018

Judges to EPA: Get the Lead Out (on Protecting Children’s Brains)

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  Northeast Office

For years, the EPA has dragged its heels on strengthening lead standards. Thanks to a court order and Earthjustice litigation, it now has 90 days.

Quinault tribal member Larry Ralston stands on the beach at the Quinault Indian Nation reservation. The tribe must relocate the village of Taholah uphill due to sea level rise.
March 12, 2018

Climate Change Forces Quinault Tribe to Seek Higher Ground

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  Northwest Office

The tribe has taken the lead against local projects like oil terminals that would further climate change and threaten its existence.

A judge has ordered the FDA to release withheld information related to its approval of GE salmon.
February 2, 2018

Judges to FDA: Government Must Pull Aside Curtain on Genetically Engineered Salmon

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  Oceans Program

Appeals court rejects Trump administration’s attempt to withhold information from the public related to the approval of GE salmon.

Earthjustice attorney Eve Gartner (left) and scientist Arlene Blum (right) joined forces in 2011 to get flame retardant chemicals out of furniture. The coalition they built compelled federal regulators to call for banning an entire class of flame retardan
January 24, 2018

How Two Women Teamed Up to Take on the Chemical Industry—and Won

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  Toxic Exposure & Health Program

Earthjustice attorney Eve Gartner and scientist Arlene Blum worked together to convince the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban an entire class of toxic flame retardants.

El abogado de EarthJustice, Paul Cort, interviene en una audiencia pública en Sacramento. Cort ha puesto en práctica su dominio jurídico para obligar a la comisión de Servicios Públicos de California a repensar cómo se genera electricidad en el estado.
January 23, 2018

Cómo fue que por fin llegó la energía renovable a California

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  California Office

La ex presidenta de la Comisión de Servicios Públicos de California, Loretta Lynch, se acercó a Earthjustice con una nueva estrategia para embestir a la agencia que una vez dirigió.

Earthjustice staff attorney Paul Cort speaks at a public hearing in Sacramento. Cort has been using his legal know how to force the California Public Utilities commission to rethink how electricity is generated in the state.
January 19, 2018

Tired of Dirty Energy Winning, This Government Insider Tipped Off Earthjustice

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  California Office

Former president of the California Public Utilities Commission Loretta Lynch approached Earthjustice attorneys, including Paul Cort (pictured here), with a new strategy for taking on the agency she had once led.

Hikers on the peak of Cascade Mountain in Adirondack Park
January 17, 2018

New York’s Governor Wants to Run Roughshod Over the Adirondacks. We Just Stopped Him.

By Jessica A. Knoblauch  /  Northeast Office

Earthjustice just notched a big win in the multi-pronged fight to keep motorized vehicles out of Adirondack Park’s most pristine areas.