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Climate Action Campaign Call to Act Letter

New policies could eradicate gray wolf populations in Northern Rockies states

Tonawanda Seneca Nation petitioned the New York State Supreme Court to stop the development of a manufacturing megasite adjacent to the Nation’s land in Genesee County. The Nation warns that the development will infringe on the Big Woods, a pristine parcel of land that citizens of the Nation forage and hunt on, as they have for centuries.

A commissioner from the Department of Environment and Conservation in Alaska rejected a ruling from an administrative law judge finding that a water quality certificate should not have been issued for the Donlin Gold mine.

Certification of New Interstate Natural Gas Facilities Comments – Docket No. PL18-1-000

In Court, Justice Department Defends Trump’s Approval of Large Oil-Drilling Project in Western Arctic

Voters’ Support for the American Jobs Plan: Findings Memo for MI08

Zoning Board of Adjustment Appeal

A federal district court issued an order denying the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for an injunction that would have shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline while a federal environmental impact analysis is conducted.

ESA consultation letter about whitetip sharks

Southern California Gas Company (“SoCalGas”) used ratepayer money to finance a long-running campaign to undermine efficiency standards at all levels of government, particularly when the Company determined that stronger efficiency standards could threaten its business interests by making gas appliances less competitive against electric options. Yet despite the Presiding Officer’s Decision finding that SoCalGas’ actions were “improper” and “result[ed] in appreciable harm to the regulatory process,” the Decision fails to impose meaningful consequences. By not assessing penalties for SoCalGas’ blatant, well-documented violations and only requiring a return of shareholder incentives and a portion of misspent funds, the Presiding Officer’s Decision commits legal error. The Presiding Officer’s Decision is an abdication of the Commission’s responsibility to deter future misconduct and duty to impose penalties for violations of Commission requirements.

Voters’ Support for the American Jobs Plan: Findings Memo for AZ01

Voters’ Support for the American Jobs Plan: Findings Memo for MI11

Voters’ Support for the American Jobs Plan: Findings Memo for NV04

Voters’ Support for the American Jobs Plan: Findings Memo for NV03

Opening brief in defending coal leasing moratorium

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environtmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its 2019 hazard standard for lead in dust from deteriorating lead paint, which would tolerate exposure to dangerous levels of lead and to update its long-outdated hazard standards for lead in soil. It also ordered EPA to update its definition of what constitutes lead-based paint. EPA’s current definition, which was set in 1992, is more than 55 times less protective than the definition used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The Biden administration is also facing lease renewal deadlines for 200 coal leases on federal lands