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Lawsuit Challenges Inadequate Federal Review of Endangered Species in Gulf of Mexico

Voltus, Inc. Complaint v. MISO Filed 10/20/20

Notice of Complaint – Voltus v MISO

Press release from Standing Rock Sioux Tribe demanding a true consultation on DAPL.

Declarations from Tribal staff, an economist, and a pipeline safety expert in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other plaintiff Tribes' renewed request for an injunction shutting down the pipeline.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, along with other plaintiff Tribes, renews its request for an injunction shutting down the pipeline.

EPA Proposed Federal Coal Ash Permit Program Leaves Communities Unprotected

Trump administration wages multifront assault on coal ash protections

Eleven community, scientist, environmental, and environmental justice groups represented by Earthjustice sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a weak national emission rule for hundreds of chemical facilities whose pollution is linked to cancer. The Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing, or MON rule, regulates toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants across the country. These plants emit over 7,400 tons a year of dangerous air pollutants, including at least 2,000 pounds of ethylene oxide, an aggressive carcinogen.

Eleven community, scientist, environmental, and environmental justice groups represented by Earthjustice sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a weak national emission rule for hundreds of chemical facilities whose pollution is linked to cancer. There groups also filed a petition for reconsideration with the EPA.

CCR Part A Rollback Fact Sheet – Final Rule – Last updated October 13, 2020

List of 124 plants in 28 states and Puerto Rico whose owners have posted notifications that the groundwater exceeds state and/or federal limits of contamination, without an alternate source demonstration, for one or more of the following toxic substances: Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Beryllium, Cadmium, Chromium, Cobalt, Lead, Lithium, Molybdenum, Selenium, Thallium, and Radium 226 and 228 combined.

EPA proposed Part B rollback allows dumping into dangerous coal ash pits.

Declaration of John Johnson, Sr. in support of motion for preliminary injunction to stop Wisconsin from holding a wolf hunt in November 2021.

DAPL's final brief in the D.C. Circuit appeal of the decision to require an EIS and shut down the pipeline.

Army Corps' final brief in the D.C. Circuit appeal of the decision to require an EIS and shut down the pipeline.

Amicus Curiae Brief of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association, National Congress of American Indians Fund, Inter-Tribal Association of Arizona, Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes, United South and Eastern Tribes Sovereignty Protection Fund

The undersigned members of Congress offer this brief in support of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al., who request that this Court affirm the district court’s decision to vacate the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Lake Oahe easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline and shut down the pipeline on remand.