Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen: “President Trump’s reckless order is an assault on each and every one of us, our health, and our well-being.”

Refusing to hold coal companies accountable for stream destruction, contamination

Leaving clean water and communities at risk

House moves forward dismantling the Stream Protection Rule, Senate expected to follow

Polluter-backed members of Congress are bent on putting forth an agenda that eviscerates vital safeguards, such as protections for clean water.

Community and conservation groups file a motion to defend clean water against attacks in court. A coal company and thirteen states have filed lawsuits seeking to overturn the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule.

Republican leaders turn to eviscerating public safeguards as an early priority of 2017

This the long-awaited Stream Protection Rule provides local communities with information they need about water contamination caused by nearby coal mining operations, and includes several important safeguards for clean water and the well-being of communities near coal mining operations. Lawmakers are seeking to eviscerate this common sense clean-water regulation using the Congressional Review Act, a back door tactic which allows Congress to erase recently finalized protections with little debate and zero public input.

A coal company and the state of North Dakota have filed lawsuits seeking to overturn the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule

Stream Protection Rule offers modest updates to protect the Nation's water resources

Statement and resources from Earthjustice

The Stream Protection Rule will decide how much we protect mountains and streams from mountaintop removal mining.

Some notable improvement alongside troubling stream buffer provision

Earthjustice litigation and policy work is targeting a number of looming or ongoing environmental threats.

Rule will restore protections to the nation’s streams and wetlands

Pro-mountaintop removal measure and threat to clean water gets the axe