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Colorado’s Water Quality Control Division recently sent a compliance advisory to Suncor Energy for three benzene and two total suspended solids exceedances at the company’s Commerce City refinery between January and April of this year.

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice and People’s Collective for Environmental Justice move to intervene in support of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Michel S. Regan re: EPA’s final actions published as Waiver of Preemption; Decision: California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty and Maintenance Provisions; Advanced Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport Shuttle; Zero-Emission Power Train Certification

The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Penobscot Nation, and the Natural Resources Council of Maine, represented by Earthjustice and Brann & Isaacson, joined the Conservation Law Foundation in petitioning to intervene in the review of Wolfden’s permit application to the Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) to rezone the area for industrial uses.

We urge the United States to call for a moratorium or pause on deep-seabed mining at the upcoming July 2023 ISA Council and Assembly.

114 business, community, environmental, faith, health, and labor organizations urge the EPA to include in its final commercial sterilizer rule: the regulation of offsite storage warehouses, fenceline monitoring, and a quicker compliance deadline

A federal judge has approved a stipulation by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) not to “take any action to apply, effectuate, or enforce the provisions of HB 576 or SB 392” for seven months.

For July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023

This case challenges the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) approval of drilling permits for new oil wells on public land in the San Joaquin Valley, California, without accounting for the air quality, groundwater, public health, and climate impacts of BLM’s continued expansion of oil and gas drilling, and without providing for meaningful input from the communities most impacted by its permitting decisions.

White paper to address the transmission bottleneck and rapidly scale up infrastructure to advance an equitable clean energy future by WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Center for American Progress, League of Conservation Voters, National Hispanic Medical Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and Union of Concerned Scientists.

A letter from environmental, health, and environmental justice groups in California urging Governor Gavin Newsom to make systemic, just,
and commonsense changes to California’s dated Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program. It’s time for Governor Newsom to step in and steer California on the right course towards a zero emissions future by shaping a Low Carbon Fuel Standard that will work for California in the 2020s and beyond.

Intervention defends Montana DEQ in its challenge to illegal mining at Zortman gold mine

A circuit court upheld a wrongful decision by Michigan regulators to allow a toxic asphalt plant to pollute an environmental justice community near Flint.

Comments on Oakland Harbor Turning Basins Widening Navigation Study; Revised Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment

A federal court ordered Canadian oil giant Enbridge to cease the flow of oil and to decommission within three years the segment of its Line 5 pipeline that is trespassing on the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

Court order granting Danskammer’s request that the Title V permit proceeding be stayed for one year. Danskammer will not challenge recent rulings against its plans to construct a methane gas plant in Newburgh, NY.

Plaintiffs Na Kia‘i Kai and Surfrider Foundation move for summary judgment against Defendants County of Kaua‘i and Director of the Department of Health Elizabeth Char on Plaintiffs’ claim that Defendants violated the Clean Water Act by discharging polluted water from the Kikiaola Harbor Drain into waters of the United States without a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit. The Court finds that Plaintiffs are entitled to summary judgment with respect to their claim.

This settlement between the State of Illinois and Dynegy Midwest Generation requires Dynegy to clean up coal ash and resolve violations of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act at the former Vermilion Power Station.

Powerpoint presentation from the Right to Zero Day of Action on Capitol Hill