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The St. James Boat Club launch, along Blind River, part of the Lake Maurepas watershed, in Gramercy, La. Environmental advocates are wary of anything that might make air quality worse or threaten wildlife, fearing a plant designed to capture climate-changing carbon and make clean-burning hydrogen fuel will actually do more harm to the Lake Maurepas basin. (Gerald Herbert / AP)
document July 1, 2025

Fact Sheet: Air Products’ Proposed Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Facility on Lake Maurepas

Air Products is in pursuit of an Army Corps’ Clean Water Act 404 permit and a Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources’ Coastal Use Permit (CUP) that would allow for the construction of a carbon sequestration facility.

North Denver community members, Lissa Leticia de Gonzales, Jose Molina and Lucy Molina, left to right, near the Suncor Refinery, which is heavily polluting their neighborhoods. (Carmel Zucker for Earthjustice)
feature July 3, 2025

Healthy Communities Program Report

The progress we have secured is a testament to the fact that the law and science are on our side. It also reflects the desire of most people across the country for a safer and cleaner world. Our shared wins represent decades of painstaking work, culminating in concrete measures that will save lives across the country. We’re celebrating our victories and the many opportunities ahead.

A beaver lodge in the Sunset Roadless Area. The area is home to species including elk, bear, beaver and goshawk.
(Ted Zukoski / Earthjustice)
feature June 23, 2025

Timeline of the Roadless Rule

A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

Clockwise from top left: Laura Beth Resnick of Butterbee Farm. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice) Controlled burn during BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / U.S. Coast Guard) Subway train on the 7 line in Queens, New York City. (Marco Bottigelli / Getty Images) An oil-coated feather on a Florida beach in 2010, following the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. (Tech. Sgt. Emily F. Alley / U.S. Air Force)
feature June 27, 2025

Our Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

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.

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

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.”

Flames consume a hillside as firefighters battle the Maria Fire in Santa Paula, Calif., on Nov. 1, 2019. (Noah Berger / AP Photo)
Press Release August 15, 2024

Public Interest Groups Defend SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Rule

The rule is a vital step forward to better protect investors and markets

document June 27, 2025

Legal Complaint: Everglades Detention Center

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)
feature April 29, 2025

Where the Trump Administration is Going and Where We Stand

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

Reception at Earthjustice's Washington, D.C., Office.
page June 3, 2025

Sustainability at Earthjustice

Sustainability is an evolving journey that touches every part of our work.

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2022. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Press Release March 6, 2024

SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Represents Important Progress, But Falls Short on Key Metrics of Financial Risk

Final rule improves upon status quo, but still enables companies to conceal financial risks

The Navajo Generating Station, near Page, Ariz., in 2010. (Sylvia Schug / Getty Images)
feature May 9, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Arizona: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at five power plant sites in Arizona.

Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Mass., in 2012. (Denis Tangney Jr. / Getty Images)
feature May 9, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Massachusetts: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Significant quantities of coal ash are stored at three power plant sites in Massachusetts. All of these sites include older coal ash dumps that industry is only now beginning to quantify and monitor.

The coal-fired Morgantown Generating Station in Newburg, Maryland, in 2014. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)
feature May 9, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Maryland: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at ten power plant sites in Maryland. All but one of these sites include older ash dumps that industry is only now beginning to quantify and monitor.

A South Texas rancher looks out over his family’s land that has been contaminated by pollutants from the San Miguel Electric Plant, in the background. (Ari Phillips / EIP)
feature May 9, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Texas: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 19 coal-burning power plant sites in Texas.

The Coal Creek coal-fired power plant near Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota, in 2012. (John Elk / Getty Images)
feature May 8, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in North Dakota: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at eight power plant sites in North Dakota.

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.