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Federal defendants ordered to change Columbia Basin hydropower operations to protect endangered salmon and steelhead

A federal court in Oregon ordered federal agencies to change operations of the Columbia Basin hydropower system in critical ways to help improve salmon survival.

Patti Goldman, Attorney, Northwest Office: “When people use pesticides in their fields or on their lawns, they don’t expect to get cancer. Yet this happens, and when it does, state court lawsuits provide the only real path to accountability.”

States and nonprofit groups win lawsuit protecting $5 billion federal EV charging program

The Justices will soon decide whether families, workers, and communities still have a path to justice when toxic products make them sick.

DOE’s order disrupts a long-planned shutdown of a coal plant in Centralia, Washington, designed to provide state residents with cleaner air and affordable, reliable, clean energy

The Trump administration is falsely invoking emergency powers to resurrect coal-fired power.

The Duwamish River Community Coalition and Front and Centered, represented by Earthjustice, filed an appeal seeking to overturn a regional air agency decision allowing the Ash Grove Cement Company to burn more tires for fuel at its Seattle plant.

Community groups seek to overturn an illegal air permit that would allow more tire burning resulting in severe health harms to nearby residents

A timeline of the creation of and 25-year fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

After nearly 15 years of planning, the plant had been scheduled to shut down Dec. 31

Earthjustice, Sierra Club, Climate Solutions, and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) filed a new challenge to the Trump administration’s hold on $2.5 billion in federal funding through the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program.

Millions of Americans would breathe easier if Trump administration unlocks clean transportation funds

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “The Services are required to prevent harmful consequences to species, not ignore them.”

Set of proposed rules would hollow out bedrock environmental law

The agencies have proposed to narrow the universe of waters protected under the Clean Water Act, yet again

Learn about the major events, court rulings, and where we are now in this long-standing fight.

State of Oregon proposed order seeking emergency measures to protect endangered salmon and steelhead from harms caused by lower Snake and Columbia River dam operations.