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REAP was created to help farmers and rural small businesses cut energy costs and strengthen local economies; yet hundreds of millions of tax dollars have been funneled into expensive, polluting manure digesters

EPA fails to protect farmers, truck drivers, and families from the harm of toxic sludge

Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and partner organizations, including the Kentucky Resources Council (KRC) and Earthjustice, have filed briefs in support of an appeal challenging the EPA’s failure to protect communities from PFAS – toxic forever chemicals – in sewage sludge. The appeal – brought by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) – highlights the EPA’s refusal to act despite decades of contaminated sludge being spread on farmland as fertilizer across the country.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Richard Platkin, J.), entered June 21, 2024 in Albany County, which, among other things, dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets finding that petitioner’s local law barring food establishments from selling foie gras in New York City was in violation of Agriculture and Markets Law § 305-a (1) (a).

The Trump administration’s onslaught on the environment is intense, but Earthjustice is using the power of the law to fight back.

Hundreds of millions of dollars intended to cut energy costs have been funneled to costly manure digesters, benefitting industrial-scale livestock operations

Given the enormous emissions associated with industrial meat production, beef produced in this manner can never be a “climate-smart choice.” Climate-smart beef is plainly an oxymoron.

La demanda alega que Tyson Foods afirmó falsamente que alcanzaría la neutralidad de carbono para 2050 y comercializó sus productos de carne industrial como “climáticamente inteligentes”

Lawsuit alleged Tyson Foods falsely claimed it will be net-zero by 2050 and marketed its industrial beef products as “climate-smart”

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has settled its greenwashing lawsuit against Tyson Foods filed in September 2024. The suit alleged that Tyson Foods’ claims about reaching “net-zero by 2050″ or selling “climate-smart” beef were not supported by sufficient action to achieve these virtually impossible goals.

Brief of proposed amici curiae New York Association of Towns; City of Auburn; Town of Owasco; Robert Manley; in his official capacity as Town Supervisor of the Town of Cameron; and Michael Volino, in his official capacity as Town Supervisor of the Town of Thurston.

JBS to end making unsubstantiated claims minimizing the true climate harms of beef production

Through litigation, legislative and administrative advocacy, and communications, Earthjustice’s Sustainable Food and Farming team advances the transition to a cleaner, safer, and more climate-friendly food system.

Trump administration shields polluters as animal factories emissions kill more people than coal plants

Conservation and community groups appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that exempts factory farms from their duty to make information about dangerous air emissions available to the public. The decision, issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, leaves frontline communities in the dark about noxious chemicals in the air they breathe. The groups will argue on appeal that the Trump administration’s rule is unlawful.

10 organizations petition federal court over EPA’s abandonment of rules to reduce pollution from meat processing industry

Groups filed their petition with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency on August 28 announced that it would throw out rules planned by the Biden administration that would have, for the first time, imposed limits on phosphorus pollution from 126 meat industry plants across the U.S., eliminating at least eight million pounds of this pollutant per year, plus nine million pounds of nitrogen and other pollutants, including fecal bacteria and grease.

La decisión de la agencia permitirá que los mataderos y las plantas de procesamiento de alimentos sigan siendo los principales descargadores industriales de contaminación por nitrógeno y fósforo, aumentando el riesgo de que el agua no sea apta ni para beber ni para la recreación al aire libre, y que no sea habitable para la vida acuática.