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document May 2, 2023

Toxic Coal Ash in Florida

Coal ash is leaching unsafe levels of toxic pollutants into groundwater at 91% of coal plants. Florida has 28 coal ash dumpsites.

document May 2, 2023

Toxic Coal Ash in Delaware

Coal ash is leaching unsafe levels of toxic pollutants into groundwater at 91% of coal plants.

document May 2, 2023

Toxic Coal Ash in Colorado

Coal ash is leaching unsafe levels of toxic pollutants into groundwater at 91% of coal plants. Colorado has 38 coal ash dumpsites.

document May 2, 2023

Toxic Coal Ash in Arizona

Coal ash is leaching unsafe levels of toxic pollutants into groundwater at 91% of coal plants. There are a dozen coal ash dumpsites in Arizona.

document May 2, 2023

Toxic Coal Ash in Alabama

Coal ash is leaching unsafe levels of toxic pollutants into groundwater at 91% of coal plants. Alabama has 32 coal ash dumpsites.

document April 28, 2023

Lease Sale 257 Post-IRA Ruling

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.

document April 26, 2023

Oyster Bay Complaint

Plaintiffs North Oyster Bay Baymen’s Association (“Baymen’s Association” or “Association”) and Center for Food Safety (“CFS”) (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) bring this action to challenge the improper administration of the Congressman Lester Wolff Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge (“Refuge”) by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”).

document April 24, 2023

Court Ruling – Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion Upheld

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument made by President Obama in January 2017.

document April 20, 2023

CEJA-SEU-008 Audit Q12-15

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

document April 19, 2023

Tribal Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Eby on Mining

Twelve First Nations and Tribes sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Eby calling on the governments of Canada and British Columbia to act to protect their recognized traditional territories from legacy, operational, and proposed mining in British Columbia.

document April 18, 2023

CEJA-SEU-009 Supplemental Q5B

SoCalGas response and supplemental SEU responses 5b. The response to Data Request CEJA-SEU-08, Q.12 states that the $1,143,592 listed under account number 923 for the law firm Reichman Jorgensen LLP is considered a ratepayer cost. Do any of these costs include legal services related to potential federal preemption of local ordinances banning gas connections in new construction and/or legal challenges to local gas bans for new construction such as in Cal. Restaurant Ass’n v. City of Berkeley?

document April 18, 2023

NESHAP Oil and Gas Consent Decree with EPA

On April 18, 2023, a federal court signed a consent decree between Earthjustice clients and the Environmental Protection Agency, which agreed to review oil and gas source air pollution emission standards.

document April 14, 2023

Air Products Site Formerly Orange Grove Plantation Fact Sheet

Air Products Blue Energy LLC, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania-headquartered Air Products and Chemicals, Inc, plans to build a large gas manufacturing and chemical facility on a site formerly occupied by one of the largest sugar plantations in Louisiana and where many people were enslaved. Below are detailed facts with support.

document April 13, 2023

DOE Approval – Alaska LNG Project

U.S. Department of Energy granted approval for the exports from the proposed Alaska LNG project. The Alaska LNG project is a $38.7 billion fossil-fuel infrastructure plan to export liquified natural gas (LNG) that would be capable of exporting 20 million metric tons of gas per year — a quantity that could result in over 50 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution emissions annually.

document April 13, 2023

April 4, 2023 Decision in Danskammer Methane Gas Plant

Key decision issued April 4, 2023 in a legal process to determine the fate of a new methane gas plant, Danskammer Energy Center, proposed for Newburgh, NY, as New York State implements its landmark climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA).

document April 12, 2023

WOTUS Preliminary Injunction

A federal district court in North Dakota stayed the Environmental Protection Agency’s science-based rule revising the definition of “Waters of the United States.” The ruling halts current clean water safeguards and potentially strips protections from many types of wetlands, streams, and interstate waters in 24 states.

document April 10, 2023

Groundfish Complaint

Two Alaska tribal organizations sue the federal government to protect subsistence fishing by reexamining groundfish catch limits for the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands as the salmon crisis in Western Alaska intensifies.

document April 7, 2023

EPA Chevron Challenge

Earthjustice’s challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to allow Chevron USA to manufacture highly carcinogenic chemicals to make fuels.