Library Search

Abandoning soot standards would cause more asthma attacks, heart disease, and early death — especially in vulnerable communities

The Environmental Protection Agency’s court filing asks the U.S, Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to strike down the soot standard.

Toxic gold mining along rivers crossing the British Columbia-Alaska border threatens critical ecosystems and the sovereign rights of Alaska Native communities.

We’ve successfully challenged Trump’s past offshore oil lease sales that broke the law at the expense of coastal communities, and we’re ready to win again.

We’re prepared to go to court to defend clean water as a right for all.

The pipeline project was rejected by the state two prior times over water quality threats

Petition filed at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for review of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s decision dated November 7, 2025 to grant the application of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC for a water quality certification under Section 401 of the federal Clean Water Act.

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.

Since August, the commission chair has knowingly let TY Management Corp. use potable groundwater for golf turf irrigation in violation of the law

Request to rescind and correct Chair Chang’s correspondence allowing the use of groundwater for irrigation on the Kapalua Bay and Plantation Golf Courses.

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

The Bay Mills Indian Community, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi represented by Earthjustice filed their opening brief alongside the Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) and Michigan Climate Action Network (MiCAN) in the Michigan Supreme Court challenging Enbridge Energy’s efforts to build an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac.

All nations must tackle climate change or face legal consequences for causing harm to the environment.

Alternative would avoid costly, ineffective proposal to widen the highway

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “In denying multiple motions to dismiss (twelve in total), this Court recognized the fundamental principle that ‘courts play an essential role in declaring and enforcing the public trust’.”

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa submitted a post-hearing brief to the administrative law judge overseeing the contested case challenge to Wisconsin’s approval for Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 reroute.

Petition seeking writ of mandamus to vacate two permits issued to DeepRock Disposal Solutions, LLC, for Class II wells to dispose of fracked gas waste within two miles of drinking water source.

New York rejected the water quality certification because the application failed demonstrate that the project would comply with the states’ water quality standards