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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issues a mixed decision on #DAPL shutdown. The permit remains vacated, but the district court must make additional findings before pipeline is shut down.

The undersigned mining-impacted communities, academic experts, and organizations representing millions of members and supporters urge Congressional leadership to oppose any language or legislation that curtails the mining review and permitting processes, or increases domestic mining without appropriate safeguards and reform of the 1872 Mining Act.

Earthjustice files motion to intervene

Lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s attack on the National Environmental Policy Act.

Statement from clients about the importance of defending NEPA

Coalición Nacional Entabla Demanda Para Defender Ley Ambiental Nacional

Letter to the City of San Francisco's Commission on the Environment to support Supervisor Mandelman’s proposed ordinance requiring all-electric buildings for new construction.

On February 7, 2020, pursuant to FOIL, Riverkeeper and Earthjustice requested all public comments DOH received in response to its July 2019 proposal to adopt PFAS MCLs. Shortly after sending the FOIL request for public information, DOH asked, and Riverkeeper and Earthjustice agreed, to narrow the scope of the request so that DOH could gather and send the comments more quickly. Almost 6 months later, no records have been received, and DOH has stated it will not respond until late August.

Plaintiffs file this supplemental complaint as a continuation of their challenge to Federal Defendants’failure to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act for Federal Defendants’2017 decision to revoke a federal coal-leasing moratorium that had provided protections against leasing and mining coal from federal public land.

State plaintiffs lawsuit against Interior for ending coal moratorium

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, along with the other three plaintiff Tribes, file their opposition to the emergency motions for stay pending appeal.

This Informal Complaint was filed by the Metropolitan Equal Housing and Opportunity Council, Equity Legal Services, and Earthjustice on behalf of Centreville Citizens for Change.

Ruling reinstates Obama administration's methane rule

A coalition of community, labor, and environmental groups filed a petition challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final methylene chloride risk evaluation, which unlawfully determined that manufacturing, disposal, and several other uses of methylene chloride present no unreasonable risk.

In New York State lawmakers are considering bills (S2000B/A4739B) aimed at safeguarding our health from per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). These toxic chemicals found in food packaging may damage the immune system & reduce the effectiveness of vaccines, bringing additional public health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. We urge New York State leaders to pass S2000B/A4739B to combat PFAS toxic exposure.

Petition (updated in July 2020) to the Inter-American Commission On Human Rights seeking relief from violations of the rights of the members of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission resulting from hard-rock mining in British Columbia, Canada

A new report by Earthjustice and Sierra Club highlights the gas industry’s deceptive efforts to keep our homes and buildings tethered to gas combustion.

Filed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Dakota Access, LLC