A Utah federal judge has granted a motion to intervene filed by conservation groups in defense of the Biden administration’s restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.

WOTUS injunction decision in Texas/Idaho

Conservation groups sue to stop the Willow Oil Project in Alaska’s Western Arctic

For over a decade, the South Coast Air Quality Management District has enabled the oil industry to pollute communities of color by giving major stationary sources a free pass on compliance with section 185 of the Clean Air Act.

Lawsuit Challenges Biden Decision to Open 73.3 Million Acres of Gulf of Mexico for Oil Leasing

Allies of the oil and gas industry filed a petition for declaratory judgment, seeking to reverse progress made by Washington’s new statewide building energy codes.

Three Eugene residents, David De La Torre, Aya Cockram, and Timothy Morris, have filed to appeal the language that will appear on an upcoming ballot if NW Natural succeeds in gathering the required signatures to send a recently passed electrification ordinance to voters.

Three Eugene residents, David De La Torre, Aya Cockram, and Timothy Morris, have filed to appeal the language that will appear on an upcoming ballot if NW Natural succeeds in gathering the required signatures to send a recently passed electrification ordinance to voters.

North Port St. Joe Project Area Committee, Inc., and Pioneer Bay Community Development Corporation submit this Brief in Support of Reversal of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Order Declining Jurisdiction over the Nopetro LNG, LLC, liquefied natural gas export terminal in Port St. Joe, Florida.

Earthjustice filed suit on behalf of the Conservation Council for Hawai‘i and native Hawaiian cultural practitioner Mike Nakachi to protect a host of threatened and endangered Pacific ocean species from continuing harm.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it will protect the California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. The owls have seen their numbers dwindle because of logging and climate change, among other threats.

As a public health and environmental disaster unfolds following the derailment and explosion of a toxic-chemical cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, advocacy groups renewed their challenge to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) 2018 repeal of a regulation requiring electronic brake systems for trains carrying hazardous and flammable material.

Five community groups respond to Ajax in a final briefing before the Genesee County Circuit Court. The groups are appealing a decision by Michigan’s environmental agency to allow the Ajax corporation to install a toxic asphalt plant in a predominantly Black, low-income, and environmentally overburdened neighborhood.

Environmental groups urge the California Air Resources Board not to waste the opportunity to advance zero emission refuse trucks.

Commenters again call on EPA to end the preventable cycle of chemical fires, explosions, and hazardous chemical releases at U.S. industrial facilities. No massive chemical catastrophe should ever occur. EPA must strengthen and finalize the proposal to issue a strong new chemical disaster prevention rule that communities and workers can finally count on to protect their lives and their families. Fenceline communities, environmental and environmental justice groups, and scientists submit these comments to urge EPA to follow the science and the most current safety data, and to apply lessons learned in recent years on ways to prevent chemical disasters and save lives.

Joint nonprofit group comments on the EPA’s Supplemental New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) proposal

Environmental justice group comments on the EPA’s Supplemental New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) proposal.

In New York City, last-mile warehouses can currently be built directly adjacent to certain residential neighborhoods, predominantly communities of color and lower-income communities, without any review or mitigation of traffic, public safety, or air quality impacts.