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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, Affiliated Tribes Of Northwest Indians, Association On American Indian Affairs, and 28 Indian Tribes Supporting a Vacatur Remedy

Amicus Curiae Brief of Bold Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity, Dakota Rural Action, Friends of The Earth, Honor The Earth, Save Our Illinois Land, Sierra Club, and 350.org in Support of Plaintiffs’ Brief on Vacatur

Consolidated Brief of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe, and Yankton Sioux Tribe Regarding Remedy. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe asks the Court to shut down the Dakota Access pipeline while an Environmental Impact Statement is performed.

Expert and agency staff declarations in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's brief asking the Court to shut down the Dakota Access pipeline while an Environmental Impact Statement is performed.

American Lung Association, Earthjustice, Environmental Advocates of New York, Jobs to Move America, New York Public Interest Research Group, New Yorkers for Clean Power, and Sierra Club submit comments on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) proposed amendments to its regulations implementing the Diesel Emission Reduction Act of 2006 (DERA). We applaud DEC’s proposed amendments that extend DERA’s requirements to use ultra-low sulfur diesel and best available retrofit technology to heavy-duty vehicles operated on behalf of State agencies, and not just those vehicles directly owned, operated, or leased by State agencies

Regarding May 13, 2020, hearing. Earthjustice defends against coal leasing on public lands.

Petition to Intervene by Bay Mills Indian Community (BMIC) and Affidavits of Bryan T. Newland and Jacques LeBlanc Jr against Enbridge

Plaintiffs challenge the BLM's failure to comply with NEPA when it issued two hardrock mining lease renewals, to Twin Metals Minnesota, in an area adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

While New York City has made great strides over the years in reducing childhood lead poisoning, this battle is far from won, and we, the signers, are concerned that the potential reduction of the City’s programs pertaining to lead poisoning prevention could lead to a drop of established safety measures and testing.

RISE St. James and Louisiana Bucket Brigade submit this response to South Louisiana Methanol’s request for an extension of the construction discontinuance period of its Prevention of Significant Deterioration preconstruction air permit PSD-LA-780 and urge LDEQ to deny SLM’s request.

Defeated oil lease sale was a reckless rush to sacrifice Montana’s public lands to the Trump Administration’s “energy dominance” agenda

The Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC), represented by Earthjustice and the Environmental Advocacy Clinic at Vermont Law School, and the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance (NJEJA) request that the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) take immediate action to stop the purchase and sale of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) from New Jersey waste incinerators in violation of their Clean Air Act permits or other Federal or State environmental permits.

Plaintiffs Healthy Gulf and Turtle Island Restoration Network bring this case to remedy violations of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Commerce.

On whether the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ February 8, 2017, decision granting an easement to allow a portion of the Dakota Access Pipeline under Corps-managed lands at Lake Oahe should be vacated while the Corps conducts additional environmental review consistent with this Court’s opinion

Asks the Court to allow the pipeline to continue to operate while a full Environmental Impact Statement is prepared, as required by the Court’s earlier decision. Dakota Access, LLC, breathtakingly calls DAPL the safest pipeline in the world, relying on secretive information that it has shielded from any public scrutiny.

Six amicus (friend of the court) briefs representing oil companies, industry groups, and the state of North Dakota, supporting requests by the Army Corps and Dakota Access to allow the pipeline to continue to operate while a full Environmental Impact Statement is prepared.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules to keep the Clean Water Act intact, dealing a major loss to the Trump administration and its pro-polluter agenda. The opinion was written by Justice Breyer with a vote of 6-3; with Chief Justice Roberts joining the opinion, along with Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Kavanaugh.

We are writing on behalf of Sierra Forest Legacy, a project of the Tides Center; Center for Biological Diversity; and Defenders of Wildlife to notify you of violations of Section 4 of the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), 16 U.S.C. § 1533, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) in determining that listing the California spotted owl under the ESA is not warranted. See 84 Fed. Reg. 60371 (Nov. 8, 2019). This letter is provided pursuant to the sixty-day notice requirement of the citizen suit provision of the ESA, 16 U.S.C. § 1540(g).