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Three separate legal documents:
1. Initial Opening Brief of Petitioners Newburgh Clean Water Project, NAACP, Sierra Club, United Parents Against Lead, and Natural Resources Defense Council, represented by Earthjustice.
2. Standing Addendum of Petitioners Newburgh Clean Water Project, NAACP, Sierra Club, United Parents Against Lead, and Natural Resources Defense Council, represented by Earthjustice.
3. Initial Opening Brief of State Petitioners

Parties ask the Court to extend the litigation stay through August 31, 2023.

A press release from U.S. federal agencies committing to take action on Columbia River Basin fisheries.

Commitments outlined by the U.S. government supporting development of a durable long-term strategy to restore salmon and other native fish populations to healthy and abundant levels, honoring Federal commitments to Tribal Nations, delivering affordable and reliable clean power, and meeting the many resilience needs of stakeholders across the Columbia River Basin region.

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Ironbound Community Corporation, and Sierra Club petition this Court for a writ of mandamus requiring the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Michael S. Regan, in his official capacity as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to promulgate a rule updating its emission standards for large municipal solid waste incinerators.

200 organizations voice strong opposition to S.J. Res. 55, a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

The University of Florida conducted a municipal solid waste garbage waste composition study of two Miami-Dade County waste streams, garbage, and trash.

Defendant County of Kauaʻi has been violating, and continues to violate, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act by discharging drainage waters contaminated with sediment and other pollutants from the Kīkīaola Harbor Drain — an unlined, earthen ditch located on West Kauaʻi’s Mānā Plain that the County owns, operates, and maintains — into the Pacific Ocean — without the required National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit. Filed July 14, 2022.

Earthjustice is representing Nā Kia‘i Kai and the Surfrider Foundation in a lawsuit against the County of Kauaʻi and State Health Department for violating the Clean Water Act by by discharging drainage waters contaminated with sediment and other pollutants from the Kīkīaola Harbor Drain into the Pacific Ocean without the required permit.

Earthjustice and partner organizations sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Public Works in support of the Public Health Air Quality Act of 2022. The bill would make significant investments in our nation’s air quality monitoring infrastructure and give fenceline communities improved access to information on their local air quality and what pollutants are being emitted by industrial sources into their neighborhoods.

The Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife, represented by Earthjustice in the suit, argue that Fish and Wildlife Service’s new rule fails to respond to ongoing genetic threats to Mexican gray wolves, sets an inadequate population target, and cuts wolves off from essential recovery habitat.

Scientific research indicates that logging on federal forests is a substantial source of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere that is at least comparable to and likely greater than levels associated with wildfires.

In July 2022, 127 groups signed on to a letter calling for stronger protections for old-growth and mature forests.

Motion to remand without vacatur filed by Defendants Deb Haaland, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Gina Raimondo, and National Marine Fisheries Service The Court will grant the motion for remand but will vacate the challenged regulations.

For July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022

Earthjustice comments on SEC’s proposed climate risk disclosure rule

Michigan City – CCR Management Area – Review of Sheet Pile Wall Assessments June 21, 2022

The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors Comments on the Proposed Rule Related to Publicly-Traded Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrency Mining Companies, File Number S7-10-22