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document January 24, 2023

Response Brief to Ajax

Brief in Genesee County Circuit Court responds to Ajax’s arguments, which ask the court to undo the modest pollution controls included in their permit.

document January 23, 2023

Charting a Pathway to Maryland’s Equitable Clean Energy Future

Maryland should take four steps to equitably decarbonize its building sector and fund safer, healthier, more resilient homes for Maryland’s low-income residents and families.

The Coal Ash Primer: An introduction to the serious threats to human health and the environment, particularly to water resources and clean air, posed by coal ash.
document January 17, 2023

Coal Ash Primer

An introduction to the serious threats to human health and the environment, particularly to water resources and clean air, posed by coal ash.

document January 13, 2023

Clean Air Coalition and Sierra Club v. NYS PSC, Fortistar North Tonawanda, Digihost International

The lawsuit contests the Public Service Commission’s) declaratory ruling allowing a proposed transaction between Fortistar North Tonawanda, LLC and Digihost, Inc. to proceed in contravention of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act).

document January 9, 2023

BPA Administrator surplus revenue decision

The Bonneville Power Administration finalized a decision on Jan. 6, 2023 to dedicate only 10% of surplus revenue toward fish restoration measures.

document January 4, 2023

Apalachicola River case brief

This case will decide whether the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may evade its duty to analyze the devastating environmental impact of its actions on Florida’s Apalachicola River, floodplain, and bay, and to mitigate its actions’ adverse effects in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin.

document December 23, 2022

Condensed Analysis of Metrobus Fleet Plan

April 22, 2022 memo from The Metro Electric Bus Coalition re: Condensed Analysis of Metrobus Fleet Plan.

document December 22, 2022

Motion to Intervene in Twin Metals Lease Cancellation Lawsuit

In 2020, Earthjustice sued the Trump administration on behalf of the Wilderness Society, Izaak Walton League of America, and the Center for Biological Diversity for improperly renewing two federal mining leases for Twin Metals. When the Biden administration cancelled those leases, Twin Metals sued. Earthjustice is now seeking to intervene on behalf of the conservation groups to defend the administration’s actions.

document December 21, 2022

2022 Annual Report

Read Earthjustice’s 2022 Annual Report. We work with frontline leaders and climate partners to generate solutions through litigation and advocacy.

document December 21, 2022

Cook Inlet Lease Sale 258

National and community-based environmental groups filed a legal challenge to stop the Department of Interior’s lease sale in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Lease Sale 258, scheduled for Dec. 30, 2022, would auction off nearly a million acres of federal waters in Southcentral Alaska, opening the door to decades of future oil-and-gas drilling.

document December 21, 2022

HUD Housing Discrimination Title VI Complaint – Corpus Christi, TX

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Title VI Discrimination Complaint Against Corpus Christi, Texas, Accepted

document December 20, 2022

2022 Audited Financials

Report of independent auditors and financial statements

document December 20, 2022

Comments: NYS Climate Action Council Draft Scoping Plan

Comments filed on the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) Draft Scoping Plan. The attached comments were written by a coalition of environmental, environmental justice, labor, and economic justice groups across New York State.

document December 19, 2022

Sustainable Food and Farming Program: NYS CAC Comments 2022

Agriculture & Forestry Chapter of the Comments on the Climate Action Council Draft Scoping Plan

document December 15, 2022

2022 Annual Report

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.

document December 14, 2022

Ethylene oxide: Complaint

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.

document December 14, 2022

Principles for Accelerating Clean Energy Deployment Through Transmission Buildout in an Equitable Clean Energy Future

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

document December 13, 2022

CAFO Hearing Request: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

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.