A 15-year legal fight to curb toxic wastewater to protect drinking water.

When companies burn coal in the U.S., significant amounts of mercury spew into our air. Now, that mercury is controlled, thanks to a federal rule that Earthjustice and our clients fought for, defended, and successfully expanded.

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

With more than a dozen major environmental rules recently finalized, here’s what the administration should do as soon as possible to secure a lasting impact.

New rule will help ensure our power system can support a clean energy future

Standards will tackle major sources of climate pollution and protect public health

Groups seek lower PFAS limits and shorter compliance schedules to help protect communities

Falls short on climate; restores critical funding for water infrastructure

Assembly kills NY HEAT Act in final budget deal, the leading policy to address energy affordability and climate change

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office: “It does send a statement that even though we are seeing the impacts of climate change increasing every year in the state — more people being impacted by stronger hurricanes, we’re seeing sea level rise, we’re seeing hotter summers — that we don’t think that is something we should be…

Parties point to key evidence excluded in the MPSC case

Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office: “The decision is incredibly important because it goes back to the fundamentals, which is that the Endangered Species Act means what it says. The judge was on really solid ground in his ruling. He’s relying on decades of Endangered Species Act case law.”

Proposed LNG export facility and pipeline would destroy coastal wetlands in one of the most vulnerable areas to flooding and sea level rise in the country

Adam Kron, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “This is an incredibly significant rule that will curtail some of the nation’s biggest drivers of cancer risk.”

The new standards will require action to clean up drinking water for tens of millions of people nationwide

Coal ash is leaching unsafe levels of toxic pollutants into groundwater at 91% of coal plants. Tennessee has 29 toxic coal ash dumpsites.

Coal ash is leaching unsafe levels of toxic pollutants into groundwater at 91% of coal plants. The quasi-public utility, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), has a total of 56 coal ash dumpsites in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Conservation and environmental justice groups filed an administrative appeal challenging aspects of the Suncor refinery’s Clean Water Act discharge permit.