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.
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.
The D.C. District Court issues its ruling on whether the Dakota Access Pipeline should be shut down while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts a court-ordered full environmental analysis of the pipeline.
In response to a lawsuit brought by Earthjustice on behalf of a local conservation group and a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner, the federal government has taken initial steps to protect a dwindling shark species that has roamed the oceans for millions of years. The parties have reached an agreement to halt further legal action in the case, as long as the government follows through on promised actions to formally recognize the species as “overfished.”
The legal action seeks to compel the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to protect communities and the environment from dangerous pollution resulting from under-regulated and poorly monitored animal disposal during the pandemic.
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