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.
The new federal budget rescinds funding meant for communities dealing with environmental hazards – but there’s still hope that some promised investments can be salvaged.
The progress we have secured is a testament to the fact that the law and science are on our side. It also reflects the desire of most people across the country for a safer and cleaner world. Our shared wins represent decades of painstaking work, culminating in concrete measures that will save lives across the country. We’re celebrating our victories and the many opportunities ahead.
Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.
