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In the News: Tampa Bay Times March 3, 2025

Tampa Electric rate hike appealed to Florida Supreme Court

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

In the News: WLRN Public Media March 2, 2025

Florida Power & Light proposes higher rates over next 4 years. Consumer groups will contest

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.”

Earthjustice attorneys Tania Galloni, Bonnie Malloy, and Christina Reichert receive the Conservationists of the Year award given by the Everglades Coalition for their work protecting Florida’s wetlands. (Photo courtesy of Michael McGrath)
Article February 28, 2025

Florida Office Attorneys Honored

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

In the News: Politico February 4, 2025

PSC approves storm charges for TECO, Duke customers

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

The Florida Scrub-Jay is the only bird species found exclusively in the state of Florida. (Zach Stern / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release January 28, 2025

Conservation groups take legal action to ensure survival of declining Florida Scrub-Jay

Groups move to block effort to rescind Endangered Species Act protections

document January 28, 2025

Motion to Protect Florida Scrub-Jay

Motion to Protect Florida Scrub-Jay

In the News: Politico January 21, 2025

Court nixes Trump LNG-by-rail rule, citing ‘cataclysmic’ risk

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.”

document January 17, 2025

Order in LNG-by-Rail Rule Challenge

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).

The crude-by-rail explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Canada, killed 47 people in 2013.
(Photo courtesy of Sûreté du Québec)
Press Release January 17, 2025

Court Strikes Down Federal Rule that Would Have Allowed U.S. “Bomb Trains”

Major rail car explosion risk now averted throughout American communities

In the News: The Palm Beach Post January 9, 2025

DeSantis wants more control of federal funding for Everglades restoration

Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “Florida’s governor can make any political statements he wants, but the fact is that Florida’s ecosystems, including the Everglades, are in trouble. We need to strengthen environmental protections, not continue to let development run rampant.”

In the News: Tampa Bay Times January 2, 2025

Tampa Electric, Duke seek big bill increases to pay for 2024 hurricanes

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “At a time when Florida’s utilities are being authorized ever-higher profits, we think they should share some of the burden of these ever-increasing and more intense storms. It shouldn’t just be on hardworking Florida families to cover the cost.”

In the News: Grist December 23, 2024

In Florida, officials and communities clash over where to build the nation’s largest trash incinerator

Dominique Burkhardt, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “They’re not in any way taking into account who’s actually impacted by air pollution.”

staff November 25, 2024

Danielle McManamon

Based in Miami, Danielle is an associate attorney with the Florida regional office.

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

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

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.

In the News: Tampa Bay Times October 22, 2024

Tampa Electric wants ‘egregious’ profit from Floridians to help ailing finances, lawyers allege

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “Residential customers should not be subsidizing the cost of any utility company, let alone a foreign one, nor should they be subsidizing TECO’s largest and wealthiest customers as they have been.”

Press Release October 14, 2024

Florida Supreme Court declines to review overwhelming statewide vote that directed tax dollars to conservation land-buying for future generations

State agencies using accounting gimmicks, improperly spending land-buying tax money

In the News: Politico October 9, 2024

Florida justices challenge PSC, FPL on rate deal that includes solar expansion

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “It’s basically free money for them — and making everyone else pay more.”

A homeowner works on weatherizing their home. Home weatherization can significantly reduce energy cost and fuel use when cooling homes in the summer and heating them in the winter. (Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
From the Experts August 13, 2024

Más de 100 Mil Residentes de la Florida Ahorran Dinero en Sus Facturas de Luz Gracias a Nuestro Trabajo

En la batalla por reducir el uso de combustibles fósiles, una cosa es cierta: las medidas de eficiencia energética son la forma más barata y sencilla de hacerlo.