Environmental and Gulf-based groups filed an amicus brief today in defense of a federal rule that strengthens financial bonding requirements for offshore oil-and-gas projects thereby reducing the risk of leaving abandoned infrastructure in our oceans and their cleanup costs with taxpayers.
A coalition of public interest organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit defending the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against challenges to its final rule requiring public companies to disclose climate-related risks to their businesses and plans to manage or mitigate them.
Each legal matter that Earthjustice takes on is a commitment to our clients and partners — a promise to fight alongside them for however long it takes.
Environmental and public health groups defended the National Environmental Policy Act in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the law’s scope.
The Mendoza Supreme Court’s differential treatment between the oil industry and civil society groups occurred in a lawsuit over the authorization of fracking from the Vaca Muerta formation in the Argentinian province
Las diferencias de tratamiento por parte de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de Mendoza ocurrieron en el marco de una demanda acerca de la autorización del fracking o fractura hidráulica para explotar petróleo y gas de la formación Vaca Muerta en la provincia argentina.
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.
Press release by the Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition: Alaska’s delegation sides with industry over Tribal requests, salmon in filing an amicus brief in support of the mine
Conservation and environmental justice groups filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to defend the right to access public land via corner crossing.
The climate-killing cryptominer Greenidge Generation failed its attempt to challenge DEC authority under the CLCPA but will have an opportunity to gather more evidence to support its permit renewal application back in administrative court