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Press Release June 12, 2025

Community Groups Speak Out Against Kern County Oil and Gas Permitting Ordinance

Kern’s Board of Supervisors to vote on the ordinance by the end of June after a decade of community objection and legal challenges

document June 12, 2025

Joint Letter Second Supplemental Recirculated Environmental Impact Report Kern County Zoning Ordinance

74 organizations respectfully submit this letter in reference to Kern County’s proposed “Revisions to Title 19-Kern County Zoning Ordinance (2025-A) Focused on Oil and Gas Local Permitting”

The 68 coal-fired power plants exempted from mercury and arsenic pollution limits span 23 states. (Source: <a href="https://www.edf.org/maps/epa-pollution-pass/" class="a_color--black">Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Integrity Project analysis of EPA data</a>)
feature June 12, 2025

Corporations Emailed. Then 68 Power Plants Got a Pass to Pollute.

Using a loophole, the Trump administration exempted coal power plants from mercury and arsenic limits, polluting the air we breathe.

Emissions from a stack at the Mitchell Power Plant, a coal powered plant, in Moundsville, West Virginia. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 11, 2025

Trump’s EPA Abandons Its Duty to Protect Public from Power Plant Air Pollution

EPA seeks to end limits on mercury and arsenic and climate pollution, increasing harm to communities and reversing progress on climate action

A fossil fuel drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. (Marc Morrison / Cavan Images / Getty Images)
From the Experts June 11, 2025

5 Special Places That Trump’s Megabill Would Sell Out — to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

Los camiones circulan por la carretera interestatal 80 el 18 de febrero de 2014 en Berkeley, California, cuando el presidente estadounidense Barack Obama anunció que su administración está comenzando a desarrollar una nueva fase de estándares más estrictos de eficiencia de combustible para vehículos medianos y pesados. Había ordenado a la Agencia de Protección Ambiental y a la Administración Nacional de Seguridad del Tráfico en las Carreteras del Departamento de Transporte que crearan e impusieran nuevos estándares de eficiencia de combustible y de gases de efecto invernadero antes del 31 de marzo de 2016. (Justin Sullivan)
Press Release June 9, 2025

Camioneros Solicitan que el Gobierno Federal Aplique Reglas de Material Peligroso de Residuos de Petróleo y Gas

Camioneros se unen con ambientalistas para exigir condiciones más seguras, capacitación adecuada y un salario justo para los camioneros que transportan desechos tóxicos del fracking de los campos petrolíferos.

document June 9, 2025

Solicitud de aplicación de la legislación sobre materiales peligrosos en los yacimientos de petróleo y gas de EE. UU.

Letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) on behalf of Truckers Movement for Justice, Ohio Vallie Allies, and other organizations to request that DOT enforce federal hazardous materials law for transportation of hazardous materials, particularly the transportation of oil and gas waste, and the FMSCA conduct a formal safety audit for all carriers operating in oilfields across the United States.

Trucks drive along Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif. (Justin Sullivan)
Press Release June 9, 2025

Truckers Petition Feds to Enforce HAZMAT Rules on Oil and Gas Waste

Truckers join environmentalists to demand safer conditions, proper training and fair pay for truckers hauling hazardous materials from oilfields

An expansive view of the Bull Mountains in Montana. (Northern Plains Resource Council)
Press Release June 6, 2025

Interior Approves Expansion for Lawless Montana Coal Mine Without Public Review

Administration cites fake “energy emergency” in failing to produce draft EIS

From the Experts June 6, 2025

The Trump Administration Forces Power Plants to Continue Burning Fossil Fuels

Department of Energy’s abuse of power charges consumers for an emergency that doesn’t exist.

document June 4, 2025

Request for Enforcement of Hazardous Materials Laws in U.S. Oil and Gas Fields

Letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) on behalf of Truckers Movement for Justice, Ohio Valley Allies, and other organizations to request that DOT enforce federal hazardous materials law for transportation of hazardous materials, particularly the transportation of oil and gas waste, and the FMSCA conduct a formal safety audit for all carriers operating in oilfields across the United States.

North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. (EcoFlight)
From the Experts June 3, 2025

The Republican Megabill’s Big Coal Handouts

Leasing more of our public lands to coal companies and padding their bottom lines will do nothing to promote energy security or reduce costs for everyday Americans.

Press Release June 2, 2025

Solicitan Intervención Urgente de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Para Evitar Desalojo Forzoso de Comunidad Mapuche

Organizaciones buscan pronunciamiento del órgano de derechos humanos a favor de la Comunidad Lof El Sosneado, la cual se encuentra en conflicto con una empresa minera en la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina

Fossil fuel drilling sites in Alaska's Western Arctic. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 2, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on the Trump Administration’s Proposed Repeal of Western Arctic Protections

Repeal of Regulations designed to minimize the impacts of fossil-fuel drilling on public lands in Alaska would harm wildlife, subsistence, and the climate

Press Release May 30, 2025

Urgent Intervention by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Needed to Stop Eviction of Mapuche Community

Organizations ask the commission to defend the Lof El Sosneado community from forced removal in conflict with mining company on ancestral lands in Mendoza, Argentina

Uinta Basin in northeast Utah.
(Photo courtesy of Jared Hargrave)
Update May 29, 2025

The Supreme Court Just Weakened a Bedrock Environmental Law

We will continue standing up for the principle that the government must consider predictable environmental harms before it acts.

Press Release May 23, 2025

Trump Uses Sham “Energy Emergency” to Keep Coal Plants Open

J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant was supposed to retire in eight days

(Hannah Rothstein for Earthjustice)
Press Release May 23, 2025

As Senate Rolls Back Life-Saving Clean Air Policy, New York is Left in the Lurch with Dirty Diesel Pollution

New York must now pursue new state laws to clean up diesel trucks like the Clean Deliveries Act