A new report documents how people have been left in harm’s way, as the Trump administration attempts to block the Chemical Disaster Rule.

81 percent support state measures to combat climate change

The new report acknowledges what environmental groups have long warned

Environmental coalition reaches legal settlement with feds and oil and gas industry

Earthjustice & GreenLatinos release new survey findings that show that Latinos care about environmental policies as much as they do social policies

74 percent support state measures to combat climate change

Latino Decisions in partnership with Earthjustice and GreenLatinos conducted a national survey of Latino registered voters and their attitudes toward the environment.

Bureau of Ocean Management releases final environmental impact analysis of seismic surveys for gulf oil exploration

Latino Decisions, in partnership with Earthjustice and GreenLatinos, conducted a national survey of Latino registered voters and their attitudes toward the environment. Polling memo for Florida results.

Complete California results, in English and Spanish.

Complete Florida results, in English and Spanish.

This case challenges several authorizations issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allowing Dakota Access Pipeline, LLC to build a crude oil pipeline with a capacity of over half a million barrels a day under the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Reservation.

Pikuni Traditionalist Association, Blackfeet Headwaters Alliance, Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance, Montana Wilderness Association, National Parks Conservation Association, and The Wilderness Society (collectively, “PTA”) submit this brief to oppose summary judgment arguments advanced by Plaintiff Solenex, LLC. Solenex challenges the Federal Defendants’ cancellation of a federal onshore oil and gas lease formerly held by Solenex in the Hall Creek portion of the Badger-Two Medicine area, which is located within the Lewis and Clark National Forest in northern Montana. PTA, et al., are non-profit organizations dedicated to the conservation of the natural and cultural environment, including the Badger-Two Medicine region at issue in this case.

First of six legal challenges to federal land use plans that put priceless cultural artifacts and some of the most spectacular landscapes in America at risk

In The United States District Court For The District Of Columbia

On March 17, 2016, the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) cancelled a mineral lease held by Solenex LLC in an area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest where Congress has permanently withdrawn from mineral leasing and development. The Secretary explained that, although this
lease had issued before the ban went into effect, the lease had been invalid from its inception due to noncompliance with multiple federal laws. The Secretary reasoned that Congress’s subsequent leasing ban left her without discretion to correct deficiencies in the lease, and that even if she had discretion to do so, she would not exercise that discretion because mineral development on the subject land would irreparably harm irreplaceable natural and cultural resources. For the same reasons, and in the same decision, the Secretary also disapproved
Solenex’s Application for a Permit to Drill (“APD”).

Noisy gas and oil drilling surveys upset fragile marine ecosystems

Because of commercial seismic surveys, hundreds of whales could lose their ability to hunt prey, navigate and communicate with one another.