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Orutsararmiut Native Council (ONC) and the Native Village of Eek today filed an appeal in the Alaska Supreme Court to review a lower court decision upholding 12 state water rights permits for the Donlin Gold Mine project.

State of Alaska agencies failed to fully consider harmful impacts of the massive gold mine when issuing water permits and a water quality certificate

We still have strong legal tools to protect people and the planet.

Community gardeners from across New York State urge Governor Kathy Hochul to sign S.629-A/A.4139-A into law, which would help to ensure that community gardens continue to promote sustainability, advance equity, and strengthen New York communities for generations to come, and make clear to New Yorkers that they can and should increase the resilience and vitality of their neighborhoods by investing in community gardens.

Organizations from across New York State urge Governor Kathy Hochul to sign S.629-A/A.4139-A into law which would support community gardens by requiring the New York State Community Gardens Task Force to assess whether community gardens on publicly owned land are eligible for designation as Critical Environmental Areas (CEAs) and to recommend CEA designation for eligible gardens.

The sales under this program would lock the U.S. into up to 70 additional years of offshore oil and gas extraction, further burdening the health of Gulf communities and imperiling our climate.

The plan is considerably slimmed down from original proposal but still offers up the Gulf to oil and gas industry

Earthjustice analyzed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Act’s connection between offshore oil and gas leasing and renewable energy leasing. Even under Earthjustice’s strictest reading of the IRA, Interior does not need to include more than a single oil and gas sale to allow for all planned federal offshore wind leasing.

Based in Washington, D.C., Molly is an associate attorney.

Senator Stabenow isn’t budging on protecting IRA funding for climate & agriculture programs; and neither are we.

The governor should deliver on three key actions to transition New York State off of fossil fuels

Increasing wildfires fueled by climate change unleash a toxic cocktail. Here’s how we can lessen their health impacts by strengthening clean air protections year-round and nationwide.

Based in Washington, D.C., Lillian is an associate attorney.

Based in Washington, D.C., Kevin is an associate attorney.

Presidential Memorandum directs federal agencies to restore healthy and abundant salmon populations across the Columbia River Basin

The plant’s air permit application was denied after community members fought back, with help from Earthjustice.

President Biden put an end to GOP-led effort to remove protections for lesser prairie-chicken and northern long-eared bat

The ruling finds that Greenidge Generation’s crypto mining pollution operations are inconsistent with and will interfere with the greenhouse gas emissions limits of New York’s Climate Law (the CLCPA), as the DEC found in June 2022