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Earthjustice has held the line against bad actors and cleared the way for clean power so that now we can build. We work with frontline leaders and climate partners to generate solutions through litigation and advocacy.

Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over EPA’s failure to take legally required action to protect the public from harmful carcinogenic air emissions from ethylene oxide sterilization facilities. The Clean Air Act directs the EPA to review its ethylene oxide standards every eight years, but the agency has repeatedly missed this deadline; first in 2014 and again in April 2022. Now we are suing on behalf of environmental and health groups to compel EPA to finally act and protect vulnerable communities across the country.

Environmental group letter to President Biden with principles to address challenges related to transmission siting, cost allocation and planning.

The objective of the hearing would be to present detailed information on the harms to human rights caused by industrial meat-, egg-, and dairy-production facilities—commonly known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)—in the Americas, with an emphasis on human rights abuses from CAFOs in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and the United States. Because CAFOs hold up to hundreds of thousands of poultry, swine, dairy cows, or other animals in close confinement, they pose serious threats to human health and the environment.

El objetivo de la audiencia sería presentar información detallada sobre los daños a los derechos humanos causados por las operaciones agroindustriales de producción de carne, huevos y productos lácteos—conocidas comúnmente como “fábricas de carne” o CAFO por sus siglas en inglés (Operaciones Concentradas de Alimentación de Animales)—en las Américas, con énfasis en los abusos a los derechos humanos de las fábricas de carne en Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, México y Estados Unidos. Dado que las fábricas de carne albergan hasta cientos de miles de pollos, cerdos, ganado vacuno y otros animales en estrecho confinamiento, suponen una grave amenaza para la salud humana y el medio ambiente.

The Army Corps will withdraw its decision to let the Matagorda Bay dredging project continue.

By this Decision and Order (“D&O”), the Public Utilities Commission (“Commission”) establishes an Advanced Rate Design (“ARD”) Implementation framework (“ARD Framework”) to inform Hawaiian Electric’s development and implementation of advanced rates.

By this Order,1 the Public Utilities Commission (“Commission”) finalizes Phase 2 of the Distributed Energy Resources (“DER”) Program Structure (“DPS”), by addressing the outstanding issues related to implementation of the DER Programs established in DPS Phase 1, which includes, among other things, guidance on rollout of the Smart DER and Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) Tariffs, transition plans, and cost recovery, as discussed further herein.

Earthjustice comments urging Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to deny Venture Global’s coastal use permits for the proposed CP2 LNG export facility, submitted in December 2022.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a court motion for remand to revisit and reassess the revisions it made to the Lead and Copper Rule during the Trump Administration. The Lead and Copper rule, or LCR, regulates the control and monitoring of lead in drinking water. The EPA is asking for the remand in response to a challenge brought by Earthjustice a on behalf of civil rights and environmental groups, for not protecting children’s health and the safety of the drinking water that millions of people living in the United States rely on. There were additional challenges filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and 9 state Attorneys General and the District of Columbia.

Challenge to the Lead and Copper Rule submitted by Attorneys General from 9 states and the District of Columbia

Court motion filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) saying it will reassess revisions it made to the Lead and Copper Rule during the Trump administration, promising key improvements to the rule.

Report of independent auditors and financial statements

Letter to Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, and Members of Congress opposing the dirty permitting side deal: the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022, or similar legislation, that limits the public’s voice in mining decisions on federal public lands.

It is imperative to minimize further oil and gas leasing and development in the Gulf of Mexico to protect the wellbeing of Gulf Coast communities and
abide by our nation’s climate commitments. This Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) process provides the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) an opportunity to take a hard look at the environmental, health, and social harms from Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) development and give them appropriate consideration when exercising its discretion in holding Lease Sales 259 and 261. The National Environmental Policy Act process provides guidance for BOEM’s decision-making process for those sales.

Following reinstatement of massive offshore lease after passage of Inflation Reduction Act

A district court ruled to allow an environmental group and community members to intervene in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) federal lawsuit against EES Coke.

Conservation groups filed a motion to intervene in two lawsuits challenging President Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.