“Over a dozen different sets of procedures and processes with little meaningful input from impacted communities will only result in more pollution, dirtier air, and contaminated water for all of us.”
Comments submitted by Earthjustice in response to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) request for comments regarding its revision of Procedures for Implementation National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA);
Processing of Department of the Army Permits.
Comments submitted by Earthjustice in response to U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) interim final rule and request for comments regarding National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Court determines New York has the power to require new buildings to use clean electrical appliances instead of allowing dirty fossil fuel combustion in people’s homes and other new buildings.
Mapuche communities urge Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to further investigate abuses at nexus of extractive industry and land dispossession
As the climate crisis threatens their land, food, and traditions, 14 youth advocates took the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation to court to spur climate action.
Air Products has proposed to build a massive project in southeast Louisiana that includes a large hydrogen/ammonia production plant with carbon capture, a 24-inch 38-mile long CO2 pipeline near communities in parts of Cancer Alley, through a vulnerable cypress-tupelo swamp, and into a popular lake where it plans to inject the facility’s waste CO2 emissions with 19 brand new platforms spread throughout the lake. This fact sheet provides more details about the project proposal and the potential impacts and risks to local communities and the environment.
Earthjustice, on behalf of Ironbound Community Corporation, sued the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission for approving a fourth gas power plant in Newark, despite strong community opposition. The plant would be built next to the Ironbound neighborhood, which is already crowded with smokestacks, diesel trucks, and power plants.
