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.
“The Port cannot rely on a decade-old permit for a project that no longer exists,” argues Bridgett McCoy, Earthjustice attorney representing the groups
Karankawa Tribe of Texas, Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, and Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association urge the U.S. Corps of Engineers to revoke the Clean Water Act permit; undertake supplemental reviews; and/or deny any further extension of the permit and require the Port of Corpus Christi Authority to submit a new permit application for any future proposed terminal at the site. They also request that they be added to the list of “interested parties.”
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.
The state of Colorado and Xcel Energy filed a request with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to keep Unit 2 at the Comanche coal plant in Pueblo operating beyond its December retirement deadline.
Together with our clients, we’re wielding the power of the law across 700 legal matters to protect people and our planet. With deep gratitude, we are pleased to share highlights of this work, which is made possible by partners like you.
Modeling shows that in the event of a pipeline rupture, dangerous levels of CO2 gas could blanket Sorrento Primary School and Orange Grove subdivision in Ascension Parish, La.
Members of the Health Equity & Environment Action League (HEAL) Coalition send letter opposing Trump administration’s repeal of greenhouse gas (GHG) Reporting Program.
Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.
Modeling report of a simulated rupture of a carbon dioxide pipeline near Sorrento Primary School / Orange Grove subdivision in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. A numerical modeling using computational fluid dynamics in a
five-minute valve shutoff scenario.
