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Data centers being built in Leesburg, Virginia, next to the Potomac Energy Center, a gas power plant. (Gerville / Getty Images)
From the Experts December 20, 2024

Managing the Growing Energy Demands of Datacenters and Crypto Mining

How states, utilities, and regulators can address digital energy demands to strengthen the grid.

Activists march in protest at the front gate to Southern California Gas Company's Ventura Compressor Station in Ventura, California. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images).
Press Release: Victory December 20, 2024

Landmark Rate Case will Save Southern Californians from Paying Tens of Millions for Dead-end Hydrogen Projects and SoCalGas’ Climate Obstruction Efforts

Decision includes critical new transparency measures for SoCalGas’s lobbying and legal expenses

Solar panels.
(Guenter Guni / iStockphoto)
Press Release: Victory December 20, 2024

Energy Justice Advocates Win Largest Utility Solar Project to Date in Pennsylvania

PECO agrees to commission a new 25MW solar project

The Greenidge Generation Bitcoin mining facility, along Seneca Lake in Dresden, NY, on Jul. 30, 2022. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 19, 2024

Cryptominer Greenidge Tries to Gift Finger Lakes Community with Years of More Litigation

Cryptominer Greenidge Generation files emergency request to delay legal proceedings within the DEC; if granted, the Finger Lakes community would be forced to endure harms of cryptomining while Greenidge stalls court proceedings without a valid air permit

The Biden administration has taken historic steps to address climate change and environmental injustice. (Adam Schultz / White House)
Press Release December 19, 2024

U.S. Announces Ambitious Commitment to Cut Climate Pollution

U.S. states and cities can lead the way in building an equitable clean energy economy

document December 18, 2024

Low Carbon Fuel Standard Petition

This Verified Petition for Writ of Mandate and Complaint for Injunctive Relief challenges the decision of the California Air Resources Board to approve amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard that lock in decades of subsidies for polluting fuels without the required analysis and mitigation of their wide-ranging environmental harms.

The Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, California. (Michael Macor / San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Press Release December 18, 2024

Environmental Justice Group Sues California Agency Over Flawed Low Carbon Fuel Standard Changes

The changes would waste billions on polluting fuels over the next decade while harming refinery communities and dirtying California’s air

(Thomas Barwick / Getty Images)
Press Release December 18, 2024

EPA Approves Waiver for California’s Zero-Emissions Cars and Cleaner Trucks Standards

New rules can now be enforced, to the benefit of people breathing air and workers in the clean energy economy

Progress Rail’s EMD Joule Battery Electric Locomotive. (Progress Rail)
Press Release December 17, 2024

New Legislation from Senator Ed Markey Lays Tracks for All-Electric Rail Future in the U.S.

The All Aboard Act would provide $80 billion to expand passenger and high speed rail in the U.S. and $50 billion for a Green Railroad Fund

The United States Postal Service Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, shown in this concept image, can be built with either a gasoline or electric drivetrain. (USPS)
Update December 16, 2024

Trump Podría Interferir en los Planes para Electrificar los Camiones del Correo Postal

La administración entrante de Trump ha amenazado con cancelar los innovadores planes del Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos (USPS) para electrificar su flota de camiones de correo, según un informe de Reuters.

Students march down Willamette Street in March in protest of NW Natural's effort to roll back the natural gas ban in new homes in Eugene. The Eugene City Council repealed the ban in July. (Chris Pietsch / USA TODAY NETWORK)
Article December 16, 2024

Oregon Energy Victory Saves Consumers Millions, Makes Climate Progress

A new ruling will lower Oregon energy users’ bills and curb a utility’s deceptive practices.

Youth plaintiff Kalā W. shares an emotional moment with an elder  on Jun. 24, 2024, during the celebration of the historic settlement in <a href="https://earthjustice.org/feature/hawaii-youth-climate-lawsuit" class="a_color--white"><em>Navahine v. Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation</em></a>. (Elyse Butler for Earthjustice)
feature December 13, 2024

2024: A Year in Earthjustice

Together, we achieved extraordinary wins for the earth and its people. Thank you.

The United States Postal Service Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, shown in this concept image, can be built with either a gasoline or electric drivetrain. (USPS)
Update December 12, 2024

Trump May Meddle in Plans to Electrify Postal Mail Trucks

The incoming Trump administration has threatened to cancel the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) groundbreaking plans to electrify its mail truck fleet. Here’s why it can’t do that.

staff December 11, 2024

Megan Kemp

As the Colorado Policy Advocate, Megan helps to develop and implement legislative strategies to achieve Earthjustice’s goals for environmental justice, climate, clean energy, and more.

Contractors and welders work on a Transco methane pipeline in Lebanon, Penn., in 2017. (Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images)
Article December 11, 2024

Communities’ Fight Against Gas Pipeline Projects Heats Up

The courts are striking down more FERC gas approvals. But the fight isn’t over to keep gas pipelines out of our communities.

USPS mail trucks make up more than 30% of the federal government’s vehicles.
(Brian Brown / Getty Images)
Press Release December 10, 2024

Earthjustice Responds to Potential Trump Threat to Postal Service’s Electric Mail Truck Fleet

An executive order would be unlawful move that hurts American workers and dirties our air

staff November 27, 2024

Jacob Elkin

Based in Philadelphia, Jacob is an associate attorney with the Clean Energy program.

Shipping containers pile high at the Port of Oakland.
(Image courtesy of Port of Oakland)
From the Experts November 25, 2024

Port of Oakland’s All-Electric Future is in Reach

Latest survey finds companies operating at the Port of Oakland are clamoring for all-electric equipment.