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In the News: Finger Lakes Daily News January 10, 2025

Earthjustice Files Brief Opposing Greenidge’s Emergency Request

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “Greenidge’s request for a stay is meritless on its face. It’s ridiculous that Greenidge claims it can’t afford basic legal expenses in a proceeding that the publicly-traded company itself commenced.”

document January 29, 2025

Lee Zeldin Opposition Letter

Earthjustice sends letter to U.S. Senate opposing Lee Zeldin’s nomination to the Environmental Protection Agency.

document January 27, 2025

Community letter opposing Burgum as Interior Secretary

Environmental groups send letter to U.S. Senate urging Senators to oppose Doug Burgum’s nomination to serve as Interior Secretary

Press Release December 20, 2024

Groups Sue Fisheries Service for Withholding Public Information

Agency withheld public records, photographs, and videos related to bycatch in trawl fisheries off California and Alaska.

document January 21, 2025

Fix Our Forests Act: Opposition Letter

Over 130 groups send a letter to members of Congress opposing the Fix Our Forests Act

feature January 28, 2025

The Federal Hydrogen Hub Program

Overview of the federal Hydrogen Hub Program, including descriptions of the seven Hubs selected by the Dept. of Energy to negotiate for funding

A gray wolf runs through snow in Montana. (Ibrahim Suha Derbent / Getty Images)
Update January 29, 2025

An ‘Extinction Committee’ Is Just the Beginning of Trump’s Attacks on Endangered Species

President Trump is already trying to undermine the ESA by invoking a rarely used provision that empowers a committee to decide the fate of endangered species.

feature January 29, 2025

Tools for Communities: Federal Hydrogen Hub Community Guide

How communities can gain information about and influence over Hydrogen Hub projects, including DOE’s Community Benefits Plan requirements

Māui dolphins photographed in New Zealand during a 2010 survey. (New Zealand Department of Conservation)
Press Release December 4, 2024

Group files lawsuit to protect rarest marine dolphin on Earth

Fewer than 50 Māui dolphins thought to exist, harmed and killed by fishers in New Zealand waters

Flaring natural gas burns by jack pumps at an oil well near Buford, North Dakota in the Bakken oil fields. (William Campbell / Corbis via Getty Images)
Article January 23, 2025

Trump Unveiled His Fossil Fuel Agenda. We’ll Fight for a Clean Energy Future Instead.

A raft of executive orders envisions sweeping fossil fuel extraction on federal lands, waters

The now-closed Waukegan Generating Station, on the shore of Lake Michigan in Waukegan, Ill. The coal-fired power plant still has sizable coal ash ponds threatening the environment. (Jamie Kelter Davis for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 11, 2024

Statement on the Supreme Court Denial of a Stay of EPA’s Legacy Coal Ash Rule

The EPA’s Legacy CCR Surface Impoundment Rule extends safeguards to hundreds of coal ash dump sites that had been left unregulated

The Florida Scrub-Jay is the only bird species found exclusively in the state of Florida. (Zach Stern / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release January 28, 2025

Conservation groups take legal action to ensure survival of declining Florida Scrub-Jay

Groups move to block effort to rescind Endangered Species Act protections

page July 11, 2024

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The Greenidge Generation Bitcoin mining facility, along Seneca Lake in Dresden, NY, on Jul. 30, 2022. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 15, 2024

After 3rd Air Permit Denial, Cryptominer Greenidge Files Suit to Continue Exploiting the Finger Lakes Environment and Economy

Major polluter Greenidge Generation files lawsuit in order to continue mining cryptocurrency and polluting the environment while challenging DEC’s permit denial in court

document December 13, 2024

EPA “May Affect” Letter on Line 5 Reroute

A letter from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stating that Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 reroute project may affect the water quality of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Contractors and welders work on a Transco methane pipeline in Lebanon, Penn., in 2017. (Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images)
Article December 11, 2024

Communities’ Fight Against Gas Pipeline Projects Heats Up

The courts are striking down more FERC gas approvals. But the fight isn’t over to keep gas pipelines out of our communities.

From the Experts October 9, 2024

Toxic Coal Ash Used in Neighborhoods Poses Health Risks Even Decades Later

The use of toxic coal ash as a substitute for clean soil in construction and landscaping remains largely unregulated despite the risks.

A drill ship anchored in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast in 2021.
(Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
Update January 6, 2025

President Biden Permanently Protects Vulnerable Areas of the Ocean from Oil and Gas Drilling

The president used a federal law to ban future oil and gas drilling in parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico.