Keith Rushing, Author at Earthjustice

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November 18, 2025

Trump’s Ocean Drilling Sale Risks Another Disaster for Gulf Communities — We’re Suing

By Keith Rushing / Community Partnerships Program & Oceans Program

15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, the Trump administration is illegally selling off nearly 80 million acres of public waters in the Gulf for oil and gas drilling.

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October 3, 2025

The Fight to Save a Beloved Midwest Wilderness

By Jessica A. Knoblauch & Keith Rushing / Midwest Office

Joseph Goldstein found healing and purpose in the Boundary Waters. Now, the Trump administration says it wants to open the wilderness area’s watershed up to mining.

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August 27, 2025

What the Tongass Needs is Time to Heal, Not More Logging

By Elizabeth Manning & Keith Rushing / Alaska Office

The Organized Village of Kasaan is fighting alongside other Southeast Alaska tribes and forest advocates to defend the Tongass National Forest.

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March 20, 2025

He Worked to Clean up Superfund Sites. The Trump Administration Fired Him.

By Keith Rushing

Thousands of firings across the EPA and other federal agencies put our environment and public health at risk.

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March 17, 2025

Trump Desmantela Políticas de Justicia Ambiental, Pero la Lucha Continúa

By Keith Rushing / Community Partnerships Program

La administración está recortando iniciativas destinadas a ayudar a comunidades racializadas y de bajos ingresos que enfrentan altas cargas de contaminación.

March 14, 2025

Trump Guts Environmental Justice Policies, but the Fight for Justice Continues

By Keith Rushing / Community Partnerships Program

The administration is slashing initiatives meant to help communities of color and low-income communities facing high pollution burdens.

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October 29, 2024

North Carolina Communities’ Battle Against Animal Factory Pollution

By Keith Rushing / Sustainable Food & Farming Program

Overburdened communities in North Carolina face the harshest impacts of industrial animal production. Now, they’re taking a stand.

The spring at Ha’ Kamwe’ in Wikieup, Ariz.

October 11, 2022

Lithium Mining Threatens Arizona Tribe’s Sacred Spring

By Keith Rushing / Tribal Partnerships Program

An Australian mining company threatens an irreplaceable cultural resource of the Hualapai people.

La construcción para expandir la carretera I-70 se ubica muy cerca de las viviendas de Globeville y Elyria-Swansea, en el norte de Denver.

May 3, 2022

¿Cuál es el Significado de la Justicia Ambiental? Demos un Vistazo al Norte de Denver

By Keith Rushing / Northern Rockies Office

Un movimiento comunitario en la capital de Colorado pone en aviso a los contaminadores de antaño mientras se adquieren nuevas protecciones para los residentes.

Construction on the I-70 freeway expansion bumps up against homes in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods of North Denver.

April 15, 2022

What’s Environmental Justice Mean? Look at North Denver

By Keith Rushing / Rocky Mountain Office

A community movement in Denver puts longtime polluters on notice and wins new protections for residents.

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