Earthjustice slams Republican leaders for holding country’s economy hostage

Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “The federal government itself is this country’s single largest source of fossil fuels. The oil and gas rule is a prime opportunity for BLM to address our climate goals and bring the federal program into alignment with what we’re trying to do as a nation.”

Earthjustice’s attorneys and policy experts rated the administration’s progress.

Sasan Saadat, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Clean Energy Program: “What’s missing from that message is an honest assessment of how scant the supply of sustainable RNG is and how risky the potential is that RNG could actually increase climate impacts.”

Maryland has proposed history-making legislation that could make the state a leader in climate action

The pipeline is a few yards from exposure to the Bad River, risking a leak that could spread oil into the Great Lakes.

The DOE rehearing is the next legal step in fighting another carbon bomb and one of the largest U.S. infrastructure projects ever proposed

The Sierra Club and Earthjustice filed for rehearing of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) decision to grant approval for the exports from the proposed Alaska LNG project, a $38.7 billion fossil-fuel infrastructure plan to export liquified methane gas (LNG). Sierra Club and Earthjustice are also representing Cook Inletkeeper and the Center for Biological Diversity in the DOE rehearing request.

Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Biological Diversity, and Sierra Club submitted comments for how FERC can better incorporate environmental justice and equity considerations into its decisions on jurisdictional infrastructure permitting processes.

Debbie Chizewer, Managing Attorney of the Midwest Regional Office, Earthjustice: “This 70-year-old pipeline is operating a full 20 years past its design lifetime. Line 5 threatens Tribal Nations and violates the State of Michigan’s shutdown order. It’s time to retire Line 5. Every day that oil flows through the pipeline is another day we risk…

Protecting Communities From Air Pollution Act seen as a starting point for much-needed reform

We’re celebrating big clean energy victories in California, Maryland, Colorado, and New York.

Climate Power, Earthjustice, and Data for Progress conducted a national survey from April 1-2, 2023, of 1,243 likely voters to assess their preferences surrounding permitting reform.

Fossil fuel industry can drill offshore for decades to come, despite unresolved legal shortcomings

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit against the Interior Department that was brought by environmental groups challenging Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 257 – the largest offshore lease sale in U.S. history.

Announcement of historic anti-pollution action would save money and save lives, but key details are unknown, including whether the gas lobby’s “poison pill” is included

SoCalGas responses to questions 12-15, data request number: CEJA-SEU-008.

A gas utility in Oregon tried to charge customers for its lobbying in schools — part of the gas industry’s longstanding efforts to push for increasing fossil fuel use nationwide. Then we stepped in.