Five Northwest and national environmental groups ask the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board to stay an air permit for an industrial-scale wood pellet plant in Hoquiam, Washington, suspending construction and operation of the facility until the legal challenge is resolved.

Ruling in favor of conservationists clarifies 2023 changes to National Environmental Policy Act

Ruling denies rushed environmental review request for one of largest underground coal mines in nation

Codes could reduce building sector emissions that contribute to poor air quality and climate change

Tribes and conservation groups filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss their claim in their ongoing Bad Actor litigation, but vowed to continue to fight to enforce Montana law to prevent additional irresponsible mining that enriches out-of-state corporate polluters and executives while leaving Montanans with the cost of perpetual pollution.

Seven Tribal Nations, represented by Earthjustice and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota to intervene in defense of the EPA’s Tribal Reserved Rights Rule, after 12 states filed a lawsuit to dismantle it.

Groups intervene in state attorneys general lawsuit challenging the National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions Phase 2.

A coalition of climate, health, and renewable energy groups that successfully defended Washington State’s new building codes are intervening to once more beat back another desperate attempt by industry to thwart Washington State’s progress toward climate goals.

A coalition of 15 conservation groups, represented by Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Trustees for Alaska filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit to defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision that protects Bristol Bay from harmful mines, like the proposed Pebble Mine, under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act.

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

Conservation groups filed a motion to intervene in defense of President Biden’s designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona.

The decision protects the health of farmworkers who would otherwise face heightened risk of antibiotic-resistant infections, pollinators, and imperiled species

Groups aim to defend against industry efforts to maximize offshore drilling in public waters

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment. There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos.

Earthjustice and NRDC join with Trustees for Alaska on behalf of 15 groups to defend Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine

Gulf, Alaska, and environmental groups filed a motion to intervene in an oil industry lawsuit challenging the Interior Department’s Five-Year Program for offshore oil-and-gas leasing — to prevent industry from grabbing even more public waters for profit.

Canada’s decision effectively silences Tribes as slew of gold and copper mines upriver in British Columbia threaten ecological hotspot

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