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Navajo community leader Daniel Tso speaks out against fracking at a meeting that was required under the National Environmental Policy Act. The law gives communities a chance to speak out against projects that will impact them.
(Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 30, 2025

Trump Administration Unleashes Across-the-Board Regulatory Weakening of Key Environmental Law

Multiple federal agencies revoked longstanding regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Press Release June 18, 2025

Ten Groups Push Back Against Trump’s Illegal Campbell Plant Extension

Public interest groups challenge the Department of Energy’s sham order

The 68 coal-fired power plants exempted from mercury and arsenic pollution limits span 23 states. (Source: <a href="https://www.edf.org/maps/epa-pollution-pass/" class="a_color--black">Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Integrity Project analysis of EPA data</a>)
feature June 12, 2025

Corporations Emailed. Then 68 Power Plants Got a Pass to Pollute.

Using a loophole, the Trump administration exempted coal power plants from mercury and arsenic limits, polluting the air we breathe.

From the Experts June 6, 2025

The Trump Administration Forces Power Plants to Continue Burning Fossil Fuels

Department of Energy’s abuse of power charges consumers for an emergency that doesn’t exist.

Press Release June 12, 2025

Trump and his EPA Sued for Creating Email Shortcut Around Clean Air Protections

Groups challenge unlawful order that let 68 power plants avoid mercury and arsenic limits

Press Release June 13, 2025

Defying Logic, New Jersey Green Lights Yet Another Gas Power Plant in Newark

Today’s final vote disregards ongoing, vocal community opposition & significant risks posed

Emissions from a stack at the Mitchell Power Plant, a coal powered plant, in Moundsville, West Virginia. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 11, 2025

Trump’s EPA Abandons Its Duty to Protect Public from Power Plant Air Pollution

EPA seeks to end limits on mercury and arsenic and climate pollution, increasing harm to communities and reversing progress on climate action

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.

document June 12, 2025

Joint Letter Second Supplemental Recirculated Environmental Impact Report Kern County Zoning Ordinance

74 organizations respectfully submit this letter in reference to Kern County’s proposed “Revisions to Title 19-Kern County Zoning Ordinance (2025-A) Focused on Oil and Gas Local Permitting”

In the News: Inside EPA January 28, 2025

GOP States, Utilities Seek ELG Filing Extension, Citing Trump Energy EO

Thom Cmar, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The reality is that this technology is available and some power plants are using it and it’s been shown to be cost effective. The technology is out there to achieve greater reductions of pollution that are happening now. And EPA can’t avoid that regardless of which administration is in…

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images)
From the Experts May 12, 2025

For Real, What Do Trump’s Executive Orders Do?

An EO is just a statement about the president’s policy preferences — but we’re watching for real actions.

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.

Press Release May 14, 2025

Newark Could be Home to Yet Another Gas-Fired Power Plant, Despite Long-Standing Heavy Pollution and Community Opposition

Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission will hold final vote this Thursday

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.

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.

document May 14, 2025

2025 Update to 2022 Powers Engineering Letter Report, “Clean Alternative Emergency Power Supply for PVSC”

This letter report supplements the July 1, 2022 report prepared for Earthjustice titled, “Clean Alternative Emergency Power Supply for PVSC.”1 The supplement responds to the issuance by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection of the final air permit for the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) Standby Power Generation Facility (SPGF) on April 2, 2025. The purpose is to (1) address new information available since July 2022 and to (2) further review deficiencies in the design and selection of the SPGF as the preferred standby power alternative for the PVSC Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP).

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.

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.