The Secretariat of the Commission for the Environmental Cooperation (CEC) recommended a thorough investigation in Mexico’s systematic failure to enforce its environmental law when authorizing the construction of three tourist resorts in an important area with vulnerable ecosystems, endangered species and local communities.

Earthjustice has filed an appeal challenging a California law that severely restricts the public’s ability to dispute the California Energy Commission’s green-lighting of new power plants

In California, citizens lack access to the courts to obtain judicial review of decisions to permit new natural gas-fired power plants. Under current law, only the California Supreme Court has discretion to hear such challenges, and, despite requests for review filed before it, it has never exercised its discretion to hear such a case. In…

Concerned public denied constitutional rights to challenge California Energy Commission permits