Air Quality Control Commission adopts GHG trading system over requirements for onsite reductions by polluters

If the lake continues to shrink, 2.5 million people could wind up breathing in toxic dust from the newly exposed lakebed.

Settlement cuts off oil shale giant’s planned mine and processing facility from water supply

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “The public trust is being increasingly called upon to address this crisis, and it’s up to the courts to enforce it.”

West’s largest wetland faces ecological collapse because of Utah’s neglect

Conservation and community groups sued the state of Utah for its failure to ensure that enough water reaches the Great Salt Lake to prevent ecological collapse.

Colorado Air Quality Control Commission adopted the polluter permitting rule in May

Community and conservation groups filed suit in Colorado state court challenging an inadequate rule adopted by the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) to address polluter permitting in disproportionately impacted communities (DICs).

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments remain safe

A Utah federal judge dismissed two lawsuits, led by the state of Utah, that attempted to undo President Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments and attacked the Antiquities Act as unlawful.

This win advances two goals at the heart of Earthjustice’s mission: protecting public lands and facing down the destructive threat of fossil fuels.

Further action and effective enforcement will ultimately determine the success of efforts to limit harmful methane pollution

Division sent compliance advisory to Suncor for benzene and solids exceedances

Colorado’s Water Quality Control Division recently sent a compliance advisory to Suncor Energy for three benzene and two total suspended solids exceedances at the company’s Commerce City refinery between January and April of this year.

Court rules that “corner-crossing” does not constitute trespass.

Community voices must be heard in cumulative impacts rulemaking and interim session

The investment will reduce natural gas usage by 2 million dekatherms over three years

Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “The federal government itself is this country’s single largest source of fossil fuels. The oil and gas rule is a prime opportunity for BLM to address our climate goals and bring the federal program into alignment with what we’re trying to do as a nation.”