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Māui dolphins photographed in New Zealand during a 2010 survey. (New Zealand Department of Conservation)
From the Experts September 5, 2025

Court Victory for Earth’s Rarest Marine Dolphin

With fewer than 50 Māui dolphins remaining, they are the rarest marine dolphin on Earth. Their survival is primarily threatened by harmful fishing practices that net the dolphins.

Sockeye salmon make their way back up a river in the Pacific Northwest to spawn.(Shutterstock)
From the Experts September 4, 2025

Wins and Highlights from the Washington 2025 Legislative Session

Let’s celebrate this year’s environmental victories, plan to continue our work in the Columbia Basin — and prepare for next year!

The R.S. Nelson coal fired-power plant in 2004, in Westlake, La. (Jamie Gates / AP Photo / American Press)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Louisiana: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at four coal-fired power plant sites in Louisiana.

The Big Stone Power Plant in Grant, South Dakota. (Imagery © 2025 Airbus / Maxar Technologies / USDA / FPAC /GEO / Map Data © 2025)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in South Dakota: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Substantial quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at three power plant sites in South Dakota.

The North Fly Ash Pond at the Hugo Power Station in Choctaw, Okla., in 2011. (EPA)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Oklahoma: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at six power plant sites in Oklahoma.

The Red Hills Generating Facility in Choctaw, Miss. (Imagery © 2025 Airbus / Maxar Technologies / Map Data © 2025)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Mississippi: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at four power plant sites in Mississippi.

Press Release September 4, 2025

Tras Bloqueo Judicial del Centro de Detención de los Everglades, Grupos Prometen Impugnación

Los grupos conservacionistas continuarán luchando contra la apelación de los demandados federales y estatales contra la orden judicial preliminar en la corte de apelaciones

feature September 4, 2025

Coal Ash in the United States: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Earthjustice analyzed industry data to explain, state by state, how and where coal ash is disposed and which dump sites are not yet monitored or regulated.

Coal ash ponds next to now-retired Reid Gardner coal plant near Moapa, NV, in 2011. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Nevada: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at four power plant sites in Nevada.

The Gerald Gentleman Power Station is located south of Southerland, Neb. (Ryan McGinnis / Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Nebraska: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at seven power plant sites in Nebraska.

The Evergy-owned La Cygne Generating Station in Kansas. (Michael Siluk / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Kansas: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at eight coal-fired power plant sites in Kansas.

Flint Creek Power Plant, next to Lake Flint Creek, in Benton County, Arkansas. (Brandon Rush)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Arkansas: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at five power plant sites in Arkansas.

Split view of clear and hazy days in Shenandoah National Park. (National Park Service)
Press Release September 4, 2025

Conservation Groups Sue EPA Over Approved West Virginia Regional Haze Plan

EPA’s approval of the plan is a complete about-face from a previous full disapproval of West Virginia’s haze plan

The New Madrid coal plant in Missouri in 2009. (Larry Braun / CC BY-ND 2.0)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Missouri: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 21 coal-fired power plant sites in Missouri.

The Riverside (MN) power station on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minn., in 2011. (Kubrak78 / Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Minnesota: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 12 coal-fired power plant sites in Minnesota.

The J. P. Pulliam Generating Station on Fox River in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 2017. (James G Brey / Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Wisconsin: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 14 coal-fired power plant sites in Wisconsin.

Former coal ash ponds at Grainger Generating Station, Conway, S.C. Coal ash contaminated the groundwater in the area with heavy metals and toxins. (Anthony Brown / Permission from Southern Environmental Law Center)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in South Carolina: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 12 coal-fired power plant sites in South Carolina.

Dominion Virginia Power's coal ash pond at Possum Point, Virginia. (Potomac Riverkeepers)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Virginia: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 12 power plant sites in Virginia.