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Black cooking utensils sitting on counter in a home kitchen. (LifestyleVisuals / Getty Images)
Update December 12, 2024

Yes, Your Black Plastic Utensils May Be Harmful. Here’s What We’re Doing About It.

Black plastic items may contain a deadly flame retardant. We’re suing the government to keep it out of our homes.

Press Release December 12, 2024

Coalition Sues EPA Over Weak Regulation of Toxic Flame Retardant Found in Black Plastic Kitchen Utensils

DecaBDE, linked to cancer and harm to children’s brain development, threatens Indigenous and frontline communities due to inadequate EPA regulations

Press Release December 12, 2024

EPA Enfrenta Demanda por Laxa Norma Sobre Peligrosas Sustancias Químicas en Electrodomésticos y Muebles

El decaBDE, grupo de sustancias químicas vinculadas al cáncer y a daños en el desarrollo infantil, sigue siendo una amenaza para comunidades indígenas y de primera línea debido a las inadecuadas regulaciones de la agencia federal

document December 12, 2024

Bad River Band Petition for Contested Case – WDNR Line 5 Permit

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior is contesting the wetland and waterway permit that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources granted to Enbridge to construct the Line 5 reroute project.

Press Release December 12, 2024

Bad River Band Challenges Wisconsin’s Line 5 Reroute Permits

The Canadian oil pipeline could destroy local waters, wildlife, and economy

document December 12, 2024

Bad River Band Petition for Judicial Review -WDNR Line 5 EIS

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for producing an inadequate final Environmental Impact Statement on Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 reroute, violating the Wisconsin Environmental Protection Act.

Protestors paddle next to the Mackinac Bridge at the Pipe Out Paddle Up Flotilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City, Michigan. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
Article December 12, 2024

The Great Lakes Are Under Threat

The Line 5 pipeline has already leaked over 1 million gallons of oil to date and threatens the Great Lakes. Now, Anishinaabe tribes are in court fighting the company’s dangerous plans to keep the oil flowing.

A bald eagle. (Shutterstock)
Press Release December 12, 2024

Conservation Groups Reach Settlement Over Lead Ammunition in West Virginia Wildlife Refuge

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will revisit lead ammunition decision in Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Press Release: Victory December 12, 2024

EPA Proposes New Rule to Reduce Cancer-Causing Air Pollution from Chemical Plants

The new rule will reduce deadly ethylene oxide emissions from chemical facilities manufacturing polyether polyols

The now-closed Waukegan Generating Station, on the shore of Lake Michigan in Waukegan, Ill. The coal-fired power plant still has sizable coal ash ponds threatening the environment. (Jamie Kelter Davis for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 11, 2024

Statement on the Supreme Court Denial of a Stay of EPA’s Legacy Coal Ash Rule

The EPA’s Legacy CCR Surface Impoundment Rule extends safeguards to hundreds of coal ash dump sites that had been left unregulated

staff December 11, 2024

Megan Kemp

As the Colorado Policy Advocate, Megan helps to develop and implement legislative strategies to achieve Earthjustice’s goals for environmental justice, climate, clean energy, and more.

Lee Zeldin (Matt Rourke / AP). Russell Vought. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc., via Getty Images) Chris Wright (Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0). Doug Burgum (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images).
feature December 11, 2024

The Presidential Transition & The Environment

Learn about key nominees in the Trump administration’s second term, and the powers they will have.

document December 11, 2024

WV Lead Ammunition Settlement Agreement

Local and national conservation groups announced an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that will result in the Service revisiting an earlier decision to cancel a phase out of lead ammunition on Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge in West Virginia.

Grizzly bear near Swan Lake in Yellowstone National Park. (Neal Herbert / NPS)
Press Release December 11, 2024

‘Grizzly Bears Not Recovered’ Says Leading Biologist, 15 Regional & National Groups Petition for New Recovery Vision

Former U.S. Fish & Wildlife Grizzly Coordinator updates his own 30-year-old Recovery Plan

document December 11, 2024

Petition to U.S. FWS: Grizzly Bears

To revise the 1993 Recovery Plan for grizzly bears in the U.S. Northern Rockies using a metapopulation approach for lasting and sustainable recovery

Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park, May 19, 2020. (Jim Peaco / NPS)
feature December 11, 2024

A New Vision for Grizzly Recovery

Science shows that true recovery of grizzly bears requires a unified population with connected ecosystems.

Contractors and welders work on a Transco methane pipeline in Lebanon, Penn., in 2017. (Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images)
Article December 11, 2024

Communities’ Fight Against Gas Pipeline Projects Heats Up

The courts are striking down more FERC gas approvals. But the fight isn’t over to keep gas pipelines out of our communities.

The newly restored flows to Wailuku River in October 2014. (Kapua Sproat / Earthjustice)
From the Experts: Victory December 10, 2024

Hawaiʻi High Court Sides with Native Community Groups in Water Dispute

The decision bolsters Hawaiʻi’s public trust framework, a legal doctrine establishing that natural resources must be protected for public use