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Comments submitted during the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) public participation period to oppose the air quality permit for Ajax, based on the cumulative impacts of adding another asphalt plant in an already environmentally over-burdened community.

Tribal Chairmen sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Sept. 22 responding to the flawed and irredeemable Environmental Impact Statement process and calling on the agency to terminate its contract with the firm preparing the document.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe submitted technical comments, which highlighted how the Army Corps continues to ignore the Tribe’s input and refuse to share technical documents.

Congress faces a once-in-a-generation opportunity and obligation to invest in agricultural solutions to the climate crisis and empower farmers and ranchers to play key roles in addressing the warming climate. We urge Congress to consider policy solutions and programs that incentivize adoption of climate-stewardship practices that are evidenced to sequester carbon and reduce GHG emissions.

Six Ojibwe tribes challenge the planned November hunt

Dakota Access files a petition for certiorari, seeking Supreme Court review of the decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The CA Superior Court ruled that San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (Valley Air)’s loopholes exempting petroleum refineries from monitoring their toxic emissions are unlawful and ordered the air district to remove these exemptions.

This letter serves as a sixty-day notice, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and Conservation Council for Hawai‘i, of their intent to sue BRE Iconic GWR Owner LLC and Waldorf=Astoria Management LLC over violations of Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), 16 U.S.C. § 1538, for unpermitted “take” of the endangered Hawaiian petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) associated with the Grand Wailea’s operations on the island of Maui.

Partners in the PEAK Coalition and Earthjustice file comments calling on the DEC to reject the Title V air permit for Astoria Gas Turbine Power, LLC due to the project’s interference with the CLCPA’s greenhouse gas emission limits.

The following joint comments focus on the issues presented by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) regarding determinations it must make under New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), as stated in its Notice of Complete Application dated June 30, 2021.

A report from Earthjustice’s Right to Zero campaign scrutinizes claims about hydrogen and delves into how to deploy it as a meaningful climate solution.

Feds announce lease sale as Louisiana reels from impacts of Hurricane Ida

On August 30, 2021, a U.S District Court for the District of Arizona said Trump’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule is illegal and should be vacated. The ruling restores protections for thousands of waterways across the Nation. It represents the culmination of a lawsuit brought by six federally recognized Indian tribes, who are represented by Earthjustice and sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers for passing a rule that eliminated Clean Water Act protections for thousands of waterbodies by redefining them as not “waters of the US.”

The Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) is one of the single most important actions our State can take today to simultaneously address the climate crisis – which is impacting New Yorkers today more than ever – and the legacy of environmental injustice that disproportionately exposes New Yorkers of color to the health harms from vehicular and other forms of pollution.

On behalf of our millions of members and supporters nationwide, we urge Congress to invest an additional $22.5 billion over ten years to accelerate electric school bus deployment and install the necessary charging infrastructure

Top 100 Lead-polluting Airports

On August 24, 2021, community groups from across the country represented by Earthjustice, together with the county of Santa Clara in California, filed a petition calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take the necessary steps to regulate lead pollution from aircraft, the largest source of lead emissions in the country. The petition comes as 39 organizations and individuals signed a letter calling on EPA to look into the issue.

The undersigned organizations and individuals submit this letter in support of the petition submitted on August 24, 2021, by Earthjustice, on behalf of Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Center for Environmental Health, Friends of the Earth, Montgomery-Gibbs Environmental Coalition, and Oregon Aviation Watch, and by the County of Santa Clara petitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to make an endangerment finding under section 231 of the Clean Air Act that leaded aviation gasoline (“avgas”) contributes to air pollution that harms public health and welfare.