Raw sewage flows into their homes and yards

Raw sewage flows into their homes and yards

Environmental group seeks court-ordered deadline for sewage treatment improvements

Imagine routinely shoveling away piles of sewage and toilet paper from your yard after it rains. Such is the plight of African-American residents in Rochelle, GA, courtesy their own city government. Earthjustice is working to end this atrocity.

Residents’ homes, streets, damaged by raw sewage for decades

Friends of the Earth, represented by Earthjustice, have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking more effective regulation of sewage discharges from cruise ships and other vessels in U.S. waters. Cruise ships alone dumped more than 1 billion gallons of sewage in the ocean in 2013, much of it poorly treated. In addition, tens of…

White residents of Rochelle, Georgia, live on the south side of the city’s railroad track. African-Americans live on the other side. The city has failed to maintain and repair sewage pipes on the African-American side of town. As a result, untreated sewage backs up and overflows into the streets and the yards of residents on…

Reacting to a new proposed plan from the DC Water and Sewer Authority to be discussed at a public meeting tonight, concerned parties called the proposal grossly inadequate to protect DC rivers from dangerous levels of bacteria and other pollutants.

Cleaner water finally on the way for DC region

Forcing the ruling system to fix the sewage system

This is a landmark success in applying federal civil rights laws to environmental racism.

Limits are key to cleaner Florida waters

The agencies endangered the public by failing to investigate an outbreak of hookworm

Decision upholds Puget Sound ‘No Discharge Zone,’ keeping ship & boat sewage out of water, key step toward restoring one of nation’s most important inland seas

Agency must review rule to ensure emission reductions

Long-awaited action to reduce a toxic threat doesn’t go far enough

The Vallejo Sanitation District and San Francisco BayKeeper announced that they have reached a settlement of a three-year old Clean Water Act lawsuit.

Response to Earthjustice lawsuit