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Health advocates represented by Earthjustice sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in federal court to compel long overdue action on petitions the advocates filed in 2016 asking FDA to ban phthalates in food packaging and processing materials.

Idaho’s expanded wolf trapping likely to kill 90% of state’s gray wolf population

A California Superior Court ruled that the bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor can no longer be used in the state because its approval violated state environmental law

Rastreando pesticidas peligrosos en los alimentos que consumimos

Letter to the Biden administration urging ocean protections from mining interests.

The enclosed comments are neutral as to the cryptocurrency industry and to blockchain technology innovation. The comments are focused solely on the harmful impacts from large, fossil-fueled energy generation systems that mine proof-of-work cryptocurrency 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to the detriment of the local community and the climate. The new, huge amounts of GHG emissions from the proof-of-work mining operations at the Greenidge Facility is a significant threat to the state’s and nation’s transition to clean energy that is urgently needed to prevent the worst impacts of climate change on our communities and local economies.

Earthjustice is releasing a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind report and data set collating 17 organophosphate human health risk assessments, as well as agricultural pesticide usage data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). This report documents the location and amount of organophosphate usage in the United States and the dangerous health effects associated with exposure. This powerful tool also shows what crops are sprayed, the foods that contain elevated levels of pesticide residues, and links to health risks evaluations and brief regulatory history.

Rastreando pesticidas peligrosos en los alimentos que consumimos

Comments in support of NY ACT law

Attachments to NY ACT comments

EPA’s Reconsideration of its November 30, 2020 Letter Regarding the Applicability of its 2008 Clean Water Act Section 404(c) Final Determination for the Yazoo Pumps Project to the 2020 Yazoo Pumps Project

Environmental groups, health professionals, labor organizations, transportation and environmental justice advocates urge the NY Department of Environmental Conservation to adopt the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) Rule. The ACT rule is technically feasible and cost-effective today, and critical for protecting public health, addressing climate change, and developing New York’s clean energy economy. Further, adoption of the ACT rule is a crucial policy to achieve the state’s climate goals, codified in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (“CLCPA”), and was a recommendation from the Transportation Advisory Panel to the Climate Action Council as a way to reduce emissions from the transportation sector.

These technical appendices provide additional detail to support the “The Role of Clean Fuels and Gas Infrastructure in Achieving California’s Net Zero Climate Goal” white paper. The following chapters outline the methodology and key assumptions in regard to (A) the economy-wide decarbonization scenario modeling and (B) clean fuels infrastructure implications and costs.

Earthjustice filed a petition along with a coalition of 10 health, community, and farmworker groups, filed a petition asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban neurotoxic organophosphate pesticides, which are prevalent in our food and water, and endanger farmworkers and their families. The EPA recently banned all food uses of chlorpyrifos, the most well-known organophosphate pesticide, but only one among a dangerous pesticide group. Chlorpyrifos is just one of over a dozen organophosphates the agency reauthorized for use in agricultural fields, even though they are acutely neurotoxic — meaning that people who are exposed at high doses over a brief period can experience severe neurological symptoms — and are linked to neurodevelopmental harm to fetuses and infants.

Call to action telling the Biden administration to overhaul the federal fossil fuel program and end new fossil fuel leasing.

Rapidly accelerating the development of renewable energy in New York, including offshore wind, and ensuring that New York’s clean energy is deliverable into New York City are critical near-term priorities to meet the CLCPA’s 2030 deadline.

This action challenges the failure of the Director of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and DEQ to enforce the “bad actor” provisions of Montana’s Metal Mine Reclamation Act (MMRA) and uphold the inalienable protections of Montana’s Constitution to prevent unlawful mining by a former top corporate leader of the notorious Pegasus Gold companies.

Letter to the Department of Energy (DOE) urging the reconsideration of the decision to appoint Mario Hurtado, chief regulatory officer for LUMA Energy, as a member of the DOE’s Electricity Advisory Committee.