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Letter submitted to EPA by individuals and organizations including Environmental Defense Fund, WeACT, National Disability Rights Network, and NRDC.

These consolidated petitions challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2015 Final Rule governing the disposal of coal combustion residuals (“Coal Residuals”) produced by electric utilities and independent power plants. See Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System; Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities (“Final Rule”), 80 Fed. Reg. 21,302 (April 17, 2015). Coal Residuals make up “one of the largest industrial waste streams generated in the U.S.”

This letter represents the collective response of 341 public interest organizations, representing millions of members and supporters, to the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) recent Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM). Rather than contemplating a rewrite of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations, this letter urges CEQ to invest its modest resources, and most importantly, its leadership position, in a systematic initiative to enforce them.

Because EPA has not engaged in reasoned decisionmaking, its promulgation of the Delay Rule is arbitrary and capricious. Accordingly, the court grants the petitions for review and vacates the Delay Rule.

Rare fish threatened by climate change, depleted river flows

Letter to Acting Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urging him to withdraw EPA’s proposed rule, “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science”.

Comment letter to Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler & Office of the Science Advisor of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in opposition of the Proposed Rule, “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science,” 83 Fed. Reg. 18,768 because of its clear intent and impact to weaken, or prevent the necessary strengthening of, vital public health safeguards.

Letter noting Judge Kavanaugh's record of siding with wealthy corporate polluters over people.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must ban a widely used organophosphate pesticide linked to brain damage in children, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. The appellate court ordered EPA to finalize its proposed ban on chlorpyrifos based on undisputed findings that the pesticide is unsafe for public health, and particularly harmful to children and farmworkers.

Health, labor and environmental organizations represented by Earthjustice are asking the government via expedited records request to reveal where exactly it plans to detain migrant families slated to be housed in Texas military bases known to have toxic hazards.

On behalf of Environmental Defense Fund, Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to release documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act related to a proposed EPA rule that would prohibit EPA’s use of peer reviewed scientific studies that have long been relied on to protect the health and safety of millions of Americans.

Final comments for the Well Control Rule

Letter to acting EPA Administrator Wheeler rescinding former Administrator Pruitt’s 2017 policy directive regarding membership of EPA federal Advisory committees

On November 7, 2016, Plaintiff Malama Makua filed a complaint alleging that Defendants violated paragraph 8(a) and (b) and paragraph 13 of the Settlement Agreement and Stipulated Order in Malama Makua v. Rumsfeld, Civ. No. 00 -00813 SOM LEK (D. Haw. Oct. 4, 2001) (“2001 Settlement”).

EPA’s proposed Cross-State Air Pollution Authorization allows upwind polluters to continue emitting harmful pollution that will cause violations of the 2008 ozone standard in downwind states.

Request asks judge to respond to extreme genetic threat to wild population of Mexican gray wolves.

Declaration Philip W. Hedrick, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University

Declaration of Carlos Carroll, Ph.D., research ecologist with the Klamath Center for Conservation Research, and Conservation Science Advisor to the Wilburforce Foundation