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Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

Plaintiffs Friends of the Everglade and Center for Biological Diversity respectfully file this motion for expedited relief seeking entry of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo during the pendency of this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to enforce the National Environmental Policy Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and state and local laws prohibiting the ongoing construction of an immigration detention center within the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.

El plan amenaza con socavar miles de millones de dólares que los contribuyentes estadounidenses invirtieron en la restauración del emblemático humedal ubicado en el sur de la Florida

Plan threatens to undermine billions U.S. taxpayers invested in restoring Florida Everglades

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “Floridians, the country, we’ve invested billions of dollars in this project. The planning can’t be thrown off, where you don’t know what’s happening next year or the year after.”

Christina Reichert, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “When you look at the language in the technical assistance process, it doesn’t include the things they failed to do at the programmatic level. There’s no baseline analysis. There’s no requirement to use the best available science. There’s no requirement for them to do an effects analysis.”

Christina Reichert, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “When you look at the language in the technical assistance process, it doesn’t include the things they failed to do at the programmatic level. There’s no baseline analysis. There’s no requirement to use the best available science. There’s no requirement for them to do an effects analysis.”

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office: “We think the commission got it wrong and look forward to presenting our case to the Florida Supreme Court.”

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Regional Office: “This would be the largest rate increase in United States history, and that’s why we’re fighting it.”

State conservationists award team for litigation that protects the Florida wetlands.

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office: “Simply put, this is unaffordable to many hard-working Floridians.”

Groups move to block effort to rescind Endangered Species Act protections

Motion to Protect Florida Scrub-Jay

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office: “We’re pleased that the court saw the danger this rule posed to our nation’s communities. As we pointed out, it would only take 22 tank cars to hold the equivalent energy of the Hiroshima bomb.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit strikes down a 2020 rule that would have allowed trains to travel the country filled with an unprecedented amount of explosive liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Major rail car explosion risk now averted throughout American communities

WeCount! submits comments in support of OSHA’s proposed rule to create a much needed federal standard to protect workers from heat related illness and death. In submitting these comments, WeCount! urges OSHA to treat climate change projections of record-breaking heat year after year — against a lack of state and local protections for workers nationally — as a mandate to act.