Regional groups seek tougher standards to protect Chilkat Watershed from Palmer Project wastewater

Cryptocurrency companies are burning waste coal, shredded tires, and fracked gas.

Hawai’i County must comply with the Clean Water Act to prevent discharged wastewater from contaminating Honokōhau Harbor

Earthjustice is standing alongside a diverse group of nations, conservation organizations, scientists, and Indigenous groups, and urging the ISA to stand strong against corporate mining interests and declare a moratorium on deep seabed mining.

In a partial win for the Chilkat Indian Village, salmon and conservation groups, additional water quality analysis is now required to safeguard against mining

September 25, 2023. Defendant County of Hawai‘i (“Defendant”) has been violating, and continues to violate, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., by continuously discharging treated sewage from the Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant
(“Kealakehe WWTP”) into the Pacific Ocean—a water of the United States—via groundwater without the required National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (“NPDES”) permit.

Ocean advocates to host educational event on August 5th at Hawai‘i Wildlife Discovery Center

What happens in Florida and Puerto Rico informs climate, energy, and environmental policy across the country.

Angela Johnson Meszaros, Managing Attorney, Community Partnerships Program, Earthjustice: “It can’t be that a system that’s held together at best by bubble gum and baling wire is the thing that we’re doing in a developed nation to manage hazardous waste.”

An opinion piece by Dominique Burkhardt (attorney in the Florida office of Earthjustice) and Dr. Selma Garcia (resident of Doral and a member of the grassroots advocacy organization Florida Rising).

Report’s findings underscore the dangers that waste incineration facilities pose to Florida communities

A legal victory decades in the making, the EPA will require modern wastewater treatment at all remaining coal-fired plants

In a final agency decision issued on an administrative appeal, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) upheld a flawed waste management permit for exploratory drilling at the Palmer Project mine in Southeast Alaska while also determining that more work must be done to ensure Alaska’s water quality standards are not exceeded due to wastewater from the mining project.

Applied Energy Services continues to contaminate the air, soil, and water in Puerto Rico with toxic coal ash.

Petrochemicals are an environmental and public health disaster. What you need to know.

A Carbon County, PA, cryptocurrency mine recently submitted a permit application for co-firing “Tire-derived Fuel;” which will increase dangerous amounts of air toxics for the surrounding community

By law, before government regulations are adopted or changed, agencies must ask the public — you — to weigh in.

Mine project in Alaska's Chilkat River watershed threatens traditional subsistence, clean water, wild salmon, and community health