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Article May 16, 2025

Congress’s Big, Bad Budget Bill is a Dream for Polluters and Billionaires

Together, we can fight back to protect our families.

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).

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)
Press Release May 14, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Republican Plans to Slash Environmental and Social Safety Net Programs

“While Republican billionaire supporters and polluting industries CEOs reap the benefits, everyday people are left with crumbs.”

A Bureau of Land Management-maintained forest in Oregon. (Bureau of Land Management)
From the Experts May 12, 2025

House Natural Resources Committee Package Delivers Big Windfalls to Polluting Industries and Billionaires

The bill represents one of the most anti-environmental bills ever debated in the U.S. Congress.

document May 13, 2025

Opposition Letter to Rescinding Inflation Reduction Act Funds for Environmental Justice Programs

A coalition of environmental civil rights, and justice organizations sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee opposing the rescission of funding for life-saving programs investing in air monitoring and cleaning up toxic pollution in communities facing disproportionate impacts of environmental injustices.

document May 13, 2025

CAC E&C Reconciliation Opposition Letter

Letter to House Committee on Energy and Commerce from Climate Action Campaign (CAC) groups opposing provisions in the reconciliation bill.

document May 13, 2025

EJNCP Letter Opposing Reconciliation Bill

Letter to House Committee on Energy and Commerce from Equitable and Just National Climate Platform members opposing reconciliation bill.

Map of smog air pollution by county in 2022. (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature May 9, 2025

What’s the state of smog pollution where you live?

Search by county to see the level of smog pollution in the air. Smog can trigger asthma attacks and increase the risk of heart and lung diseases.

Map of soot air pollution by county in 2023. (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature May 9, 2025

What’s the state of soot pollution where you live?

Search by county to see the level of soot pollution in the air. Soot causes death and serious health harms.

document May 5, 2025

Coal Leasing Opposition Letter HNRC Reconciliation Bill

Letter to House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing coal leasing provisions.

In the News: Politico May 7, 2025

Judges weigh Interior’s 5-year offshore leasing plan

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “Ultimately, what matters here is we have a decision to intensify and extend harms to vulnerable communities who’ve been suffering for decades, and punting these harms down the road. But this is the place where Interior has to address the inequalities, because this is a decision about how often…

document May 12, 2025

Joint Letter: USDA

The parties write respectfully to inform the Court that United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will restore the climate-change-related web content that was removed post-inauguration, including all USDA webpages and interactive tools enumerated in Plaintiffs’ Complaint.

document May 6, 2025

Coal Leasing Groups Quote Sheet

Groups oppose the coal leasing provision in the HNRC budget reconciliation bill.

Clockwise from top left: Laura Beth Resnick of Butterbee Farm. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice) Controlled burn during BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / U.S. Coast Guard) Subway train on the 7 line in Queens, New York City. (Marco Bottigelli / Getty Images) An oil-coated feather on a Florida beach in 2010, following the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. (Tech. Sgt. Emily F. Alley / U.S. Air Force)
feature May 12, 2025

Our Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

document May 6, 2025

Opposition Letter to proposed NOAA IRA Cuts in Reconciliation

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing cuts to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act funding in reconciliation bill.

document May 5, 2025

Letter Opposing Offshore Drilling Provisions in HNR Reconciliation Bill

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources by groups opposing mandated leasing for offshore oil and gas drilling in budget reconciliation.

document May 5, 2025

HNRC Reconciliation Letter for Forestry

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing forestry provisions.

document May 5, 2025

Opposition Letter to Boundary Waters Provisions

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing weakening protections for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.