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Vast warehouses bump up against homes in Southern California. (David McNew / The New York Times)
Press Release September 11, 2024

EPA Approves Southern California’s Policy Cleaning Up Pollution from Mega-Warehouses

EPA’s approval lights the path for air agencies looking to electrify dirty goods movement operations nationwide

Press Release September 10, 2024

Environmentalists Seek Legal Intervention to Defend Denver’s Strong Energy Codes

Codes could reduce building sector emissions that contribute to poor air quality and climate change

Press Release September 5, 2024

Groups Go to Court to Protect Arizona’s Pinto Creek and Endangered Species

Pinto Valley Mine’s excessive groundwater pumping puts vulnerable species at risk

document September 5, 2024

Complaint: Groups Sue to Protect Arizona’s Pinto Creek and Endangered Species

This case challenges the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to approve the expansion of an open pit mine whose water pumping is drying up Pinto Creek and putting vulnerable species at risk.

Press Release September 4, 2024

EPA Narrows Loophole That Allows Mega-Polluters to Dodge Control Requirements

Final rule limits Trump-era deregulation of toxic pollution

The EES Coke Battery facility on Zug Island in River Rouge, Michigan. The plant is owned by DTE Vantage, a subsidiary of DTE Energy. The EES Coke facility releases thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide in the overburdened River Rouge community and near the state’s most polluted zip code, 48217. (Ted Auch / FracTracker Alliance)
Press Release September 4, 2024

Community Groups Challenge EPA’s Weak Coke Ovens Rule in Court

The agency’s final coke ovens rule does not reduce enough toxic air pollution to protect nearby communities

document August 30, 2024

Bad River Band Comments on USACE’s Line 5 Environmental Assessment

Comments submitted by Earthjustice on behalf of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa requesting a more thorough review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the impacts of Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 reroute project.

Press Release August 30, 2024

Over 150k Public Comments Oppose Federal Permits for Line 5 Pipeline

Enbridge seeks federal and state approval to extend its trespassing pipeline

document August 28, 2024

Valero Houston Refinery: Notice of Intent Letter

Letter to the Environmental Protection Agency regarding notice of intent to sue under the Clean Air Act over failure to take over the main Title V Permit for Valero’s Houston refinery.

document August 22, 2024

Hualapai v. Haaland Temporary Restraining Order

A federal district court judge has granted a temporary restraining order sought by Earthjustice on behalf of the Hualapai Tribe to freeze a lithium drilling operation that is endangering their lands, including a sacred medicinal spring called Ha’Kamwe’.

Top view of a group of wood pellets for heating.
Press Release August 21, 2024

Environmental Groups Ask State Board To Suspend Permit for Industrial Wood Pellet Facility

Residents are concerned Grays Harbor plant could cause environmental and human health harm before state hearings board rules on legality of its air permit

Ha ‘Kamwe is a hot spring sacred to the Hualapai Tribe in Northern Arizona. An Australian company is threatening the spring with a proposed lithium mining project.
(Ash Ponders for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory August 21, 2024

Court Orders Freeze to Drilling on Hualapai Land in Northern Arizona

The Tribe is suing BLM to protect their sacred hot spring from mining

A fireball rises above the 36th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Tarague range seconds after the detonation of an M117 bomb, as a part of the flight's training, on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. (A1C Joshua P. Strang / USAF)
Press Release August 20, 2024

U.S. EPA and Guam EPA Express Grave Concerns Over Open Detonation at Andersen AFB, Find Permit Renewal Application Deficient

Open detonation releases toxic chemicals into environment and threatens human health

document August 20, 2024

Motion for Stay of Permit for Hoquiam Washington Wood Pellet Facility

Five Northwest and national environmental groups ask the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board to stay an air permit for an industrial-scale wood pellet plant in Hoquiam, Washington, suspending construction and operation of the facility until the legal challenge is resolved.

document August 19, 2024

Valero: Title V Permit Petition

Petition to the Environmental Protection Agency to object to Title V permit issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for Valero Houston refinery.

Flaring at a refinery located next to homes in Wilmington, CA. (Jesse Marquez)
Press Release August 19, 2024

Governor Newsom Vetoes Refinery Air Quality Bill

Senate Bill 674 is a critical step for public health and quality of life for fenceline communities

In the News: National Observer August 9, 2024

Group of Alaska Tribes demands pause on B.C. mining project upstream of ‘ecological hotspot’

Mae Manupipatpong, Attorney, International Program: “The environmental harms don’t just stop at arbitrary borders, and cultural rights don’t really either.”

Kids play soccer near the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, Calif. (Hannah Benet for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 8, 2024

Refinery Air Quality Bill Heads to California Governor for Final Approval

Senate Bill 674 is a critical step for public health and quality of life for fenceline communities