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Location of Red Chris Mine in British Columbia, including mine facilities footprint, mine project area, and affected river segments.

Location of Tulsequah Chief Mine in British Columbia, including mine facilities footprint, mine project area, and affected river segments.

Locations of six hard-rock mines in British Columbia (Tulsequah Chief, Red Chris, Schaft Creek, Galore Creek, Brucejack and Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell Mines), and affected river segments and watersheds.

This petition, submitted under the 1971 Pelly Amendment to the Fishermen’s Protective Act by Earthjustice’s Alaska regional office, analyzes the six hard-rock mines in British Columbia and their expected impacts on watersheds, and invokes the Interior Department’s duty to investigate when foreign nationals may be “diminishing the effectiveness” of U.S. conservation treaties

A letter to the Members of the World Heritage Committee

The Sierra Club, Alliance for a Better Utah, HEAL Utah, Grand Canyon Trust, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Living Rivers, Earthjustice (on behalf of the Sierra Club and Grand Canyon Trust), and The Sloan Law Firm, PLLC (on behalf of Living Rivers) urge you to investigate the State of Utah’s misuse of $53 million in federal communitydevelopment funds to finance a bulk shipping terminal in Oakland, California and thereby encourage mining and export of Utah coal. We believe that these actions require review by your offices for possible legal and ethical violations.

Earthjustice, along with the State of Oregon and the Nez Perce Tribe opposed a request by federal agencies to delay at least five more years adopting a plan for major changes to a hydro-power system in the Columbia River Basin that has been functioning illegally since 2000, jeopardizing endangered salmon and steelhead.

This DEIS represents the first real opportunity for BLM to analyze the impacts of a commercial oil shale project in the United States. Thus, it is vital that BLM take an exhaustive and expansive look at Enefit’s oil shale project and take all steps necessary to protect public resources. Indeed,
the already-known potential harms of the oil shale strip mine and processing plant – to land, water, air and climate – are so destructive that BLM, as part of its obligation to protect the public interest, can and should deny the rights-of-way that facilitate this project.

EPA and DOT Acceptance of Title VI Complaint

Responding to Sen. Dan Sullian's letter sent May 12, 2016, on mining activity in Canada

Notice of Intent to Sue Regarding Withdrawal of Proposed Rule to List West Coast Distinct Population Segment of the Fisher (Pekania pennanti) as ‘Threatened’ Under the Endangered Species Act

Earthjustice submits this petition on behalf of Redeemer Community Partnership, a nonprofit grassroots organization whose members strive to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment for families in South Los Angeles.

Fairbanks has the worst episodic fine-particulate matter (“PM-2.5”) pollution in the nation—“worse than Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Detroit combined,” a local newspaper put it. See Exhibit 1 (Amanda Bohman, Air pollution in North Pole worse than Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Detroit combined, Fairbanks News Miner (May 27, 2016)). Defendants have known about Fairbanks’s PM-2.5 problem for half a decade at least, but they have repeatedly failed to take action mandated by the Clean Air Act.

This amicus brief addresses the following issues:

1. Whether a discharge of pollutants from a point source to jurisdictional surface waters through groundwater with a direct hydrological connection to jurisdictional surface waters is regulated under the CWA.

2. Whether the site-specific facts here give rise to a “discharge of a pollutant” under the CWA. 2

Plaintiffs Florida Wildlife Federation, Inc., Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Inc., St. Johns Riverkeeper, Inc., Environmental Confederation of Southwest Florida, Inc., Sierra Club, Inc., and Manley Fuller respectfully move this Court for summary judgment pursuant to Florida Rules of Civil Procedure 1.510 (a) against all defendants.

RE: Request to withdraw biological opinion associated with the Port Everglades expansion project and reinitiate consultation

On behalf of Miami Waterkeeper, the Center for Biological Diversity, Florida Wildlife Federation, and Sea Experience, this letter serves as a sixty-day notice of our intent to sue the United States Army Corps of Engineers for violations of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq., relating to the proposed expansion of Port Everglades Harbor and planned dredging.

Amicus Brief supporting appeal an appeal to reinstate a suit against ExxonMobil Corporation concerning thousands of air pollution violations at the company’s Baytown, Texas, oil refinery and chemical plant complex