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Conservation groups, scientists, doctors and public-health experts filed a legal brief with Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation today supporting constitutional claims raised by Mayan children who oppose approval and operation of an industrial animal operation in the Yucatán Peninsula.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under Biden formally opposed a court-ordered shutdown of DAPL.

Letter to the Editor published in the St. James Parish News-Examiner Enterprise

After years of fighting for the health and safety of children and farmworkers, today the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos from food.

Southern California mega-warehouse will heavily electrify operations, per this landmark agreement worth up to $47 million

SUBMITTED ON BEHALF OF: Advance Carolina; Alaska Community Action on Toxics; BlueGreen Alliance; Buxmont Coalition for Safer Water; Clean Cape Fear; Defend Our Health; Delaware Riverkeeper Network; Democracy Green; Environmental Defense Fund; International Association of Fire Fighters; Merrimack Citizens for Clean Water; the National PFAS Contamination Coalition; Natural Resources Defense Council; Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families; and Union of Concerned Scientists

Food waste is a top contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. When food waste rots in landfills, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in its global warming strength. According to New York State’s inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, in 2014, landfill emissions made up about 58% of the State’s methane emissions and about 5% of its total greenhouse gas emissions.

Earthjustice, Healthy Gulf, Center for Biological Diversity, Cook Inletkeeper, Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Earth, Oceana, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed the motion in response to a lawsuit in Louisiana by 14 states that seeks to end the pause and force the government to immediately offer federal lands and waters for lease.

The Bay Mills Indian Community has challenged a permit issued to Enbridge Energy by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) that would allow Enbridge to build a massive tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac to house a new segment of its Line 5 pipeline.

Earthjustice, Sierra Club, Clean Air Council, Friends of the Earth, POWER Interfaith, and Southern Environmental Law Center file comments re: the Petition for Rulemaking requesting that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission amend the Uniform System of Accounts to move industry association dues from Account 930.2 to Account 426.

On behalf of Centreville Citizens for Change, we hereby notify Commonfields of Cahokia Public Water District (“Commonfields”) that Centreville Citizens for Change intends to commence a civil action under Section 505 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1365 for violations of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251, et seq.

A Circuit Court judge in Michigan ordered an Administrative Law Judge to re-consider a decision granting a mining permit for Aquila Resources’ Back 40 Mine, and to enlarge the record with additional evidence concerning groundwater impacts of the mine.

A letter from youths to heads of state and government at the Leaders Summit on Climate on the climate crisis

Motion backs the Biden administration’s legality in pausing federal onshore, offshore leasing

Rock Creek Mine 131 opinion and order.

An analytical view of the logistics industry’s impacts on environmental justice communities across Southern California

A coalition of conservation organizations represented by Earthjustice filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ rushed approval of a massive drainage project in Mississippi’s South Delta, commonly known as the Yazoo Pumps, in the closing days of the Trump administration.

Court agrees with motions to end appeal of Alaska District Court win upholding Obama-era protections