Construction has caused multiple drilling fluid spills in the refuge; pipeline being built to attract business to mega industrial site next to Nation territory

This is a landmark success in applying federal civil rights laws to environmental racism.

Hawai’i County must comply with the Clean Water Act to prevent discharged wastewater from contaminating Honokōhau Harbor

Saratoga Biochar Solutions LLC proposes to manufacture harmful sewage sludge-derived biochar for agricultural use on a scale unprecedented in New York State

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

Residents’ homes, streets, damaged by raw sewage for decades

Decision upholds Puget Sound ‘No Discharge Zone,’ keeping ship & boat sewage out of water, key step toward restoring one of nation’s most important inland seas

The community group Centreville Citizens for Change (represented by Earthjustice) and more than two dozen residents (represented by Equity Legal Services and the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council) sued Commonfields of Cahokia Public Water District and the City of Cahokia Heights in federal court, in response to years of raw sewage pollution…

Raw sewage flows into their homes and yards

Stronger standards would prevent hundreds of millions of pounds of pollution from reaching rivers and streams, helping to protect more than 22 million people

Raw sewage flows into their homes and yards

Environmental group seeks court-ordered deadline for sewage treatment improvements

The agencies endangered the public by failing to investigate an outbreak of hookworm

Friends of the Earth, represented by Earthjustice, have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking more effective regulation of sewage discharges from cruise ships and other vessels in U.S. waters. Cruise ships alone dumped more than 1 billion gallons of sewage in the ocean in 2013, much of it poorly treated. In addition, tens of…

Imagine routinely shoveling away piles of sewage and toilet paper from your yard after it rains. Such is the plight of African-American residents in Rochelle, GA, courtesy their own city government. Earthjustice is working to end this atrocity.

White residents of Rochelle, Georgia, live on the south side of the city’s railroad track. African-Americans live on the other side. The city has failed to maintain and repair sewage pipes on the African-American side of town. As a result, untreated sewage backs up and overflows into the streets and the yards of residents on…

Debbie Chizewer, Attorney, Midwest Office: “They literally have to start from the beginning.”