Plaintiff National Parks Conservation Association challenges Defendants’ reversal of position permitting renewed industrial mining operations at the decommissioned Colosseum Mine in Mojave National Preserve without the environmental review and approvals required by federal law.
Public interest groups filed a second request for rehearing in response to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) renewal in March 2026 of the initial emergency order issued in December 2025 forcing the TransAlta coal plant in Centralia to remain open past its planned shutdown date.
SELC and Earthjustice are representing the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP and the national NAACP in a lawsuit against xAI and its subsidiary, MZX Tech, for the tech companies’ unlawful operation of dozens of unpermitted methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 2 data center in South Memphis.
Seventeen health, community and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to implement the strengthened 2024 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for soot. The coalition also filed a motion for summary judgment asking the court to put the agency on a court-ordered deadline to carry out its overdue responsibility.
Seventeen health, community and environmental groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to implement the strengthened 2024 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for particulate matter air pollution, commonly known as soot.
A Montana District Court upheld Montana’s selenium water quality standard for Lake Koocanusa (Koocanusa Reservoir), affirming the science-based limits necessary to protect fish and other aquatic life.
Environmental groups and Alaskan tribes sue the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency for unlawfully repealing the endangerment finding and motor vehicle emissions standards.
The unprecedented blanket-exemption would leave numerous Gulf species and ecosystems unprotected and vulnerable to extinction, including the critically endangered Rice’s whale, sea turtles, fish, rays, corals, and birds.
The Whatcom County Hearing Examiner sided with six local environmental groups in ruling that Whatcom County mishandled its review of a series of expansions of a liquefied petroleum gas facility near Bellingham. The County must now conduct an independent capacity analysis of the terminal expansion and redo its environmental analysis.
This matter came before the court on March 20, 2026 for a hearing on Plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction and for the reasons explained below, the court will deny Plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
A coalition of local and national organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s fast-tracked approval of the Libby Exploration Project in northwestern Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.
A coalition of local and national organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s fast-tracked approval of the Libby Exploration Project in northwestern Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and partner organizations, including the Kentucky Resources Council (KRC) and Earthjustice, have filed briefs in support of an appeal challenging the EPA’s failure to protect communities from PFAS – toxic forever chemicals – in sewage sludge. The appeal – brought by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) – highlights the EPA’s refusal to act despite decades of contaminated sludge being spread on farmland as fertilizer across the country.
A federal court struck down President Trump’s attacks against the Endangered Species Act, restoring key values of the bedrock environmental law to the status it held for decades before attacks by the first Trump administration.
A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from coal-fired power plants.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that permits to build in wetlands should stay in the hands of federal regulators rather than the state of Florida.
A coalition of environmental and community organizations, represented by Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity, filed an amicus brief in the State of Maryland’s case to stop a proposed mass detention facility in Hagerstown.
