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From Earthjustice and Western Environmental Law Center. "It is disturbing that the Secretary has planned several meetings with parties opposed to the Monument’s expansion and who have engaged in litigation challenging the expansion, without public notice to organizations and entities that support the Monument, including Senator Wyden, Senator Merkley, and Governor Brown."

2017 Action Plan: Getting to a more diverse, equitable and inclusive environment both inside and outside the doors of Earthjustice.

En camino a un ambiente más diverso, equitativo e incluyente tanto hacia el interior de Earthjustice como afuera de sus puertas.

This case challenges the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s decision to stay compliance deadlines for certain provisions of its Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation Rule, 81 Fed. Reg. 83,008 (Nov. 18, 2016), which has been in effect since January 17, 2017. See 82 Fed. Reg. 27,430 (June 15, 2017). BLM’s June 15, 2017 stay violates the Administrative Procedure Act. 5 U.S.C. §§ 553, 705, 706(2)(A). The stay harms Plaintiffs and other members of the public by reducing royalty payments and allowing waste of public natural gas resources and excessive air pollution that would otherwise be controlled under the Rule.

From Peter J. Auster, PhD., Senior Research Scientist, Mystic Aquarium, and Scott D. Kraus, PhD., Vice President, Senior Science Advisor, Cabot Anderson Center for Ocean Life, New England Aquarium. Regarding information focused on the designation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument under the Antiquities Act of 1906.

From academic scientists specializing in marine and environmental sciences, in support of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.

Sixty-Day Notice of Intent to Sue to Remedy Violations of the Endangered Species Act in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Final Rule Removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

For July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017

Plaintiffs challenge San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District's (AirDistrict) 2014 approval of permits authorizing the construction of an oily water sewer system (sewer system) for a rail-to-pipeline transfer terminal in Kem County. Plaintiffs contend Air District violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA; Pub. Resources Code,§ 21000 et seq.1) by concluding the proposed sewer system involved only ministerial actions, and was therefore exempt from environmental review. Plaintiffs argue approval of the permits was discretionary, not ministerial and, therefore, the CEQA exemption determination was wrong.
 

Short and Plain Statement Showing Grounds for Appeal
The Permit is contrary to contrary to state and federal Clean Air Act requirements and regulations requiring BACT for nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxides and greenhouse gases, and is arbitrary and capricious because it is not supported by the record before the Department of Ecology. The Permit is also contrary to law in that it failed to adequately respond to the finding of adverse effects by the National Park Service and failed provide required public notice and comment on the issue of adverse impacts to area National Parks as determined and found by the National Park Service.

Motion to Stay EPA Delay of RMP Chemical Disaster Rule

Untied Steelworkers filed a motion to intervene in support of our request for a stay of EPA's delay on the Chemical Disaster Rule.

This letter serves as a sixty-day notice on behalf of Hui Hoʻomalu i Ka ʻĀina, Conservation Council for Hawaiʻi, and the Center for Biological Diversity, of intent to sue the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation over violations of Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1538, for unpermitted “take” of threatened Newell’s shearwaters (Puffinus auricularis newelli), endangered Hawaiian petrels (Pterodroma sandwichensis), and Band-rumped Storm petrels (Oceanodrama castro) from the endangered Hawaiʻi distinct population segment associated with HDOT’s airport and harbor facilities on the islands of Kauaʻi, Maui, and Lānaʻi.

Complaint against the EPA for delaying for a year implementation of the updated Certified Pesticide Applicator Rule

Memorandum opinion from Judge James E. Boasberg, U.S. District Court

Complaint filed suing Trump administration over five stalled energy efficiency standards

This report by senior researchers from the University of Queensland raises issues that are crucial to the important and timely debate about native title and the rights of Indigenous peoples in Australia and around the world.

Earthjustice lettter to the National Marine Fisheries Service objecting to proposed regulations that would allow the U.S. Air Force to injure marine mammals while testing long-range missiles and bombs off the island of Kaua‘i.