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Ian Coghill, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “EPA’s inspection and violation notice is a big step in the right direction, but it is just a first step. There is still a long road toward holding Suncor accountable for its many violations.”

Millions of people could wind up breathing in toxic dust from newly exposed lakebed.

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “Utah’s argument that the president may only designate small monuments centered on specific sites is just wrong. In 1920, the Supreme Court upheld President Teddy Roosevelt’s use of the Antiquities Act to protect 800,000 acres in Arizona when he declared the Grand Canyon a national monument. In…

Pumping would harm endangered species, reduce flows to Roosevelt Lake

Conservation groups sent a 60-day notice of intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for violating the Endangered Species Act in approving expanded operations at the Pinto Valley Mine, east of Phoenix.

Ian Coghill, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “The reason that we felt compelled to go in this direction is Suncor’s chronic history of exceeding the limits in its air permit.”

Ian Coghill, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “The Clean Air Act allows the most affected people to step in when the government either can’t or won’t enforce the laws sufficiently.”

Ian Coghill, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “Whatever the state is doing has not stopped Suncor from continuing its same history of these chronic exceedances. What enforcement is supposed to be about is bringing sources into compliance and deterring future violations, and what the state has done thus far clearly hasn’t been sufficient.”

Suncor ha informado más de mil excedencias o violaciones de emisiones desde 2019

Suncor has reported over 1,000 emissions exceedances or violations since 2019

Environmental justice and conservation groups submitted a 60-day notice of intent to sue Suncor Energy for repeated violations of the Clean Air Act at the company’s Commerce City, CO, refinery.

For a decade, Earthjustice has advocated for a cleaner and more equitable energy system at the Colorado PUC—and we’re seeing progress.

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “Until Utah gets serious about addressing upstream water diversions, the lake and all that depends on it will remain at risk,”

Professors argue public trust doctrine requires the state to intervene on excessive water use

The state of Utah has violated its fundamental legal duty to protect the Great Salt Lake against impairment due to dwindling water inflows, 36 law professors told a state court. The professors asked the court to consider an amicus – or “friend of the court” – brief in support of conservation groups’ lawsuit against the state of Utah for its failure to ensure that enough water reaches the Great Salt Lake.

Conservation groups file a 135-page response to the numerous motions to dismiss in the Great Salt Lake lawsuit.

Attacks on the Antiquities Act are not new. Earthjustice and our partners continue to fight back.

Motion to intervene filed in support of President Biden’s monument designation near Grand Canyon