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Dozens of unpermitted gas turbines, the target of a citizen suit filed by the NAACP, operate in Mississippi to power xAI's nearby Memphis data center. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
Article June 16, 2026

Why Trump Is Going After Your Right to Take Polluters to Court (and How We’re Fighting Back)

Citizens suits are powerful tools to enforce the law, which is why the Trump administration is attacking them.
(Zora Zhuang / Getty Images)
Press Release April 29, 2024

Environmental And Safety Advocates Call For Stronger Standards to Address Pipeline Methane Leaks

These protective standards keep communities safe and help make climate progress
Press Release December 4, 2025

Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Trump EPA Final Rule That Delays Methane Pollution Protections from Oil and Gas Industry

Unlawful delay ignores health risks, energy waste, widespread opposition
Press Release August 18, 2025

Groups Ask Court to Throw Out Trump EPA Rule That Delays Protections Against Oil and Gas Methane Pollution

EPA has no valid reason to issue a rule without soliciting public comment first
Flared gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood gas plant in the Permian Basin on February 5, 2015 in Garden City, Texas. (Spencer Platt)
Press Release July 31, 2025

Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Trump EPA’s Delay of Protections Against Oil and Gas Methane Pollution

The rule gives the oil and gas industry a pass to pollute, harm our health, and degrade our environment
Children play at Arvin's “Garden in the Sun” playground. There are several oil wells near the park. (Tara Pixley for Earthjustice)
From the Experts December 19, 2024

California’s Roadmap to Protect Communities and Public Health from Oil and Gas Drilling

A public health expert panel report gives Californians a critical new tool in the years-long fight for setbacks from oil and gas drilling.
On Jan. 15, state leaders from multiple agencies met with the communities impacted by the Aliso Canyon gas leak. (Courtesy of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services)
Article January 28, 2016

Massive Gas Leak Reveals High Cost of Fossil Fuels

Though the natural gas leak in Southern California could be plugged by the end of February, residents who are concerned about additional leaks are pushing for the facility to be…
An overhead photo of SoCalGas's leaking Aliso Canyon well pad in 2015, which polluted the Porter Ranch community in Los Angeles County in California's largest climate disaster. (Earthworks / CC BY 2.0)
Article January 12, 2016

Massive Gas Leak Puts Californians’ Health and Environment in Jeopardy

A massive gas leak near the town of Porter Ranch is releasing as much methane in a month as a fleet of 200,000 cars would in a year.
Press Release December 18, 2025

CO Air Quality Control Commission OK’s Rule to Rein in Air Pollution from Landfills

Groups hope rule will incentivize waste diversion and composting in Colorado
Three years after a massive leak at the Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility in Southern California, residents of nearby Porter Ranch, shown here, continue to experience severe health conditions. (Edward Clynes for Earthjustice)
Article October 25, 2018

The Lessons We Didn’t Learn from the Largest Gas Leak in U.S. History

Three years after the Aliso Canyon leak, agencies and underground gas storage operators are still failing to regulate and share information about the toxic pollutants in stored gas.
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.
From the Experts March 25, 2025

D.C. is well on its way to an all-electric future

Methane gas giants push back, but D.C.’s path to cleaner air, lower bills, and climate action is clearer than ever
A new EPA proposal for national standards on methane can help reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. (Leonid Ikan/Shutterstock)
Article August 25, 2015

EPA's Common-Sense Climate Measure: Fix Methane Leaks

Last week, the U.S. EPA proposed the first national standards to limit methane pollution from the oil and gas sector.
Flaring of methane gas associated with Mancos shale oil development in New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of Mike Eisenfeld / WildEarth Guardians)
Press Release July 29, 2025

Earthjustice Blasts EPA for Methane Emissions Rollback

Giving the oil and gas industry a pass on compliance is bad for our health, environment, and wallets
The Colstrip coal-fired power plant in Montana in 2004. (Larry Mayer / Getty Images)
From the Experts June 15, 2023

Billions in Hydrogen Tax Credits Could Be Given to Polluters

A sobering look behind the curtain on hydrogen tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Press Release December 21, 2020

Environmental Groups Appeal Wyoming Federal Court’s Decision to Overturn Vital Waste Management Protections

The Waste Prevention Rule is a common-sense rule protecting tribal and public lands from oil and gas waste
Fracking on Bureau of Land Management land in the Colorado River Valley Field Office of western Colorado. (Bruce Gordon / Ecoflight)
Press Release April 20, 2018

Conservation Groups Challenge Decision to Suspend Protections Against Harmful Oil and Gas Pollution on Public Lands

BLM Waste Prevention Rule stops leaks that threaten health, fuel climate change
Flaring at a drill site. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory July 16, 2020

Court Slaps Down Trump Administration’s Rollback of Methane Rule

Ruling reinstates Obama administration’s BLM Waste Prevention Rule