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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.

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Report of independent auditors and financial statements

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.

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

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.