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document June 18, 2025

Asunto: Solicitud de aplicación de la legislación sobre materiales peligrosos en los yacimientos de petróleo y gas de EE. UU.

Carta al Departamento de Transporte de los EE. UU. (DOT), la Administración de Ductos y Materiales Peligrosos y la Administración Federal de Seguridad de Autotransportistas (FMSCA) en nombre de Truckers Movement for Justice, Ohio Valley Allies y otras organizaciones para exigirle al DOT el cumplimiento de la ley federal de materiales peligrosos para el transporte de materiales peligrosos, especialmente desechos de petróleo y gas. Asimismo, la carta solicita a la FMSCA realizar una auditoría de seguridad formal para todos los conductores que operan en yacimientos petrolíferos alrededor de Estados Unidos.

document June 11, 2025

Project Divestment of Air Products Blue Energy’s Proposed Louisiana Clean Energy Complex

Letter asking the Army Corp and the Office of Coastal Management at the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to suspend their respective processing of the pending applications of Air Products Blue Energy, LLC.

Los camiones circulan por la carretera interestatal 80 el 18 de febrero de 2014 en Berkeley, California, cuando el presidente estadounidense Barack Obama anunció que su administración está comenzando a desarrollar una nueva fase de estándares más estrictos de eficiencia de combustible para vehículos medianos y pesados. Había ordenado a la Agencia de Protección Ambiental y a la Administración Nacional de Seguridad del Tráfico en las Carreteras del Departamento de Transporte que crearan e impusieran nuevos estándares de eficiencia de combustible y de gases de efecto invernadero antes del 31 de marzo de 2016. (Justin Sullivan)
Press Release June 9, 2025

Camioneros Solicitan que el Gobierno Federal Aplique Reglas de Material Peligroso de Residuos de Petróleo y Gas

Camioneros se unen con ambientalistas para exigir condiciones más seguras, capacitación adecuada y un salario justo para los camioneros que transportan desechos tóxicos del fracking de los campos petrolíferos.

document June 9, 2025

Solicitud de aplicación de la legislación sobre materiales peligrosos en los yacimientos de petróleo y gas de EE. UU.

Letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) on behalf of Truckers Movement for Justice, Ohio Vallie Allies, and other organizations to request that DOT enforce federal hazardous materials law for transportation of hazardous materials, particularly the transportation of oil and gas waste, and the FMSCA conduct a formal safety audit for all carriers operating in oilfields across the United States.

Trucks drive along Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif. (Justin Sullivan)
Press Release June 9, 2025

Truckers Petition Feds to Enforce HAZMAT Rules on Oil and Gas Waste

Truckers join environmentalists to demand safer conditions, proper training and fair pay for truckers hauling hazardous materials from oilfields

document June 4, 2025

Request for Enforcement of Hazardous Materials Laws in U.S. Oil and Gas Fields

Letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) on behalf of Truckers Movement for Justice, Ohio Valley Allies, and other organizations to request that DOT enforce federal hazardous materials law for transportation of hazardous materials, particularly the transportation of oil and gas waste, and the FMSCA conduct a formal safety audit for all carriers operating in oilfields across the United States.

In the News: The Times-Picayune May 2, 2025

Air Products delays $8 billion Ascension plant, looking to find buyer for carbon capture, ammonia portion

Corinne Van Dalen, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “This is great news for all the groups and community members who have been fighting this ill-conceived project from the start.”

document February 12, 2025

RISE St. James, et al. Requests Army Corps Conduct Full Archeological Investigation of Air Products Ammonia Site

Letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of RISE St. James requesting intervention on construction activities at the Air Products Blue Energy LLC proposed facility site which is a known archeological site that warrants careful review. RISE St. James asks the New Orleans District to require Air Products to cease construction activities until a full archeological
investigation of the site has been completed and the agency has completed its required reviews of the cultural resources that Air Product’s proposed project could impact.

In the News: Energy News Network January 2, 2025

A symbolic gesture or Trojan horse? Ohio groups question purpose of ‘green’ nuclear bill

Megan Hunter, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program, Earthjustice: “Those constitutional protections are there for a reason. And seeing the General Assembly have blatant disregard for them again and again harms Ohioans. It deprives them of these constitutional rights.”

Carbon dioxide leaks out of a high-pressure CO2 pipeline north of Sulphur, Louisiana. Residents in a quarter mile radius of the leak were told to shelter in place. (Calcasieu Parish Police Jury)
From the Experts September 25, 2024

Carbon dioxide pipelines: a dangerous part of Appalachia’s proposed carbon capture boondoggle

Local, state, and federal authorities must take action to ensure the safer construction and operation of CO2 pipelines.

Sharon Lavigne of RISE St. James is an Earthjustice client and partner in a case against the “Sunshine Project” — a plant proposed by the Formosa Petrochemical Corporation. (Alejandro Dávila Fragoso / Earthjustice)
Press Release June 28, 2024

Formosa Plastics Must Follow New Federal Pollution Rules Designed to Keep People Healthy

Stricter rules on soot pollution could put Formosa Plastics in danger of losing its permits to operate

A large liquified natural gas transport ship sits docked in the Calcasieu River on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, near Cameron, Louisiana. (Jon Shapley / Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
Article June 27, 2024

What You Need to Know About Oil and Gas Exports

Stopping the oil and gas export boom is critical to meet U.S. climate goals.

document June 26, 2024

Formosa Title V Air Permit Comments

Commenters object to renewing the PM2.5 emissions limits in FG LA LLC’s (Formosa Plastics’) Title V operating permits, Nos. 3141-3154 (the “Title V Permits”) for a proposed petrochemical complex in St. James Parish.

document June 12, 2024

Brief: Louisiana Class VI Well Primacy

Petition for review of a final action of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. EPA-HQ-OW-2023-0073

A wildlife biologist holds an oil-impacted young Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle, found in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in 2010. (Tim Donovan / FWC / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release April 12, 2024

Biden Administration Approves Largest Offshore Oil Export Terminal in the U.S.

Unprecedented oil exports are clearly not in the public interest

A chemical fire burns at a facility near Lake Charles, LA, in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in 2020. (David J. Phillip)
Press Release April 11, 2024

Louisiana Community and Environmental Groups Challenge Coastal Use Permits for Controversial CP2 Project

Proposed LNG export facility and pipeline would destroy coastal wetlands in one of the most vulnerable areas to flooding and sea level rise in the country

document April 11, 2024

CP2 LNG Export Facility Coastal Use Permit Petition

Earthjustice petition to review Louisiana Department of Natural Resources approval of Venture Global’s coastal use permits for the proposed CP2 LNG export facility,

document April 11, 2024

CP2 LNG Gas Pipeline Coastal Use Permit Petition

Earthjustice petition to review Louisiana Department of Natural Resources approval of Venture Global’s coastal use permits for the proposed CP2 gas pipeline.