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document November 1, 2019

Testimony of Donald Holmstrom, on behalf of intervenor Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Before the State Of North Dakota Public Service Commission. In the matter of Dakota Access, LLC consolidated application for an amended certificate of corridor compatibility and amended route permit.

document November 1, 2019

Testimony of Richard Kuprewicz, on behalf of intervenor Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Before the State Of North Dakota Public Service Commission. In the matter of Dakota Access, LLC consolidated application for an amended certificate of corridor compatibility and amended route permit.

document October 28, 2019

EPA Fairbanks AQ consent decree

A consent decree obligating the EPA to review a plan submitted by Alaska to improve air quality in Fairbanks.

document October 23, 2019

Letter to NJ AG: Ongoing Air Emissions Violations by Covanta Essex Company

In an open letter delivered to New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, a local Newark environmental justice community organization, Ironbound Community Corporation chronicles air and potential solid waste violations such as the reported pink smoke by Covanta Essex’s Incinerator operations that continue to threaten public health and the environment while violating state and federal laws.

document October 23, 2019

New Jersey's Ironbound Community Urges AG to Investigate Pollution Violations

In an open letter delivered to New Jersey Attorney General, Ironbound Community Corporation chronicles air and potential solid waste violations such as the infamous pink smoke emissions by Incinerator operations that continue to threaten public health and the environment while violating state and federal laws.

document October 23, 2019

Alaska Fairbanks AQ consent decree

A consent decree obligating the state of Alaska to submit a plan for improving air quality in Fairbanks.

document October 23, 2019

October 2019 Consent Decree Order on Fairbanks Air

EPA and the State of Alaska must come up with a clean air action plan for the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

document October 21, 2019

Comments on EPA Proposed Rule Updating Regulations on Water Quality Certification

Letter to EPA administrator on behalf of Sierra Club and undersigned to submit comments on EPA Proposed Rule Updating Regulations on Water Quality Certification. The proposed changes largely violate the Clean Water Act, will have adverse and wide-ranging consequences beyond the purported impetus for these changes, and will not fix the alleged problems EPA aims to solve. EPA should abandon this proposal; if it does not, the Proposed Rule must be significantly changed.

document October 15, 2019

Phase 2 Comments: EPA-HQ-OLEM-2018-0524

Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; Enhancing Public Access to Information; Reconsideration of Beneficial Use Criteria and Piles. Comments of Earthjustice, Comité Diálogo Ambiental, Inc., Environmental Integrity Project, Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc., Sierra Club, Southern Environmental Law Center, Natural Resources Defense Council, Clean Water Action, Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, Citizens Coal Council, Clean Water For North Carolina, Clean Wisconsin, Hoosier Environmental Council, Montana Environmental Information Center, Potomac Riverkeeper Network, Waterkeepers Chesapeake, Winyah Rivers Alliance, Prairie Rivers Network, Yadkin Riverkeeper, and Vive Borikén

document October 15, 2019

2019 Audited Financials

Report of independent auditors and financial statements

document October 9, 2019

Legal Document: Groups Sue EPA For Gutting Protections And Clearing Path For Pebble Mine

Earthjustice, representing Earthworks, files a lawsuit charging the U.S. EPA with breaking the law when it withdrew a 2014 Proposed Determination setting out protections for Bristol Bay.

document October 9, 2019

Army Corps Brief on Remand Summary Judgment

Opposition to Plaintiff Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Motion for Summary Judgment and Memorandum in Support of the Army Corps’ Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment

document October 8, 2019

Joint comments filed urging EPA to prohibit commercialization of 3 new PFAS chemicals

Our organizations include community groups in areas affected by PFAS contamination, a national coalition of impacted communities, and local and national organizations advocating for strengthened protections against the risks posed by existing and new PFAS chemicals. The three premanufacture notices (“PMNs”) are merely the latest examples of new PFAS submitted for EPA approval without the studies and data required to evaluate their effects on human health and the environment and therefore without the information needed to support a determination that they are unlikely to pose an unreasonable risk.

document October 1, 2019

Close-Out Rule Judgement

These consolidated cases involve a challenge to an Environmental Protection Agency regulation known as the Close-Out Rule. The rule addresses the obligation of upwind states to reduce their contribution of ozone precursors to downwind states, which must attain an ozone pollution standard by certain statutory deadlines.

document September 30, 2019

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: Order Denying Motion to Dismiss

Issued by the U.S. District Court for D.C. It is hereby ORDERED that Federal Defendants’ motion to dismiss is DENIED, with leave to renew following Plaintiffs’ filing of an amended complaint.

document September 30, 2019

Bears Ears National Monument: Order Denying Motion to Dismiss

Issued by the U.S. District Court for D.C. It is hereby ORDERED that Federal Defendants’ motion to dismiss is DENIED, with leave to renew following Plaintiffs’ filing of an amended complaint.

document September 27, 2019

Financial Responsibility Comments: EPA-HQ-SFUND-2019-0085

Comments Letter on Financial Responsibility Requirements Under CERCLA Section 108(b) for Facilities in the Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Industry. Submitted by Earthjustice on behalf of Sierra Club, Earthworks, Environmental Integrity Project, and Western Organization of Resource Councils.

document September 27, 2019

Complaint on Rollback of California Clean Car Standards

Earthjustice and the Sierra Club, along with a coalition of other environmental groups, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its attack on California, stripping the state’s authority to set more stringent greenhouse gas vehicle standards than federal standards, and rescinding California’s Zero Emission Vehicle mandate.