Patti Goldman, Attorney, Northwest Office: “When people use pesticides in their fields or on their lawns, they don’t expect to get cancer. Yet this happens, and when it does, state court lawsuits provide the only real path to accountability.”
Groups and individuals from across Alaska to express alarm and strong opposition to the proposal by the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) to open nearly all federal waters off Alaska’s coasts — nearly 1 billion acres — to fossil fuel extraction under the 11th national offshore drilling plan.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth U.S., represented by Earthjustice, are challenging the lease sale and the underlying management plan, or Integrated Activity Plan, that opens 18.5 million acres within the 23-million-acre Reserve to potential oil and gas drilling and infrastructure. The groups filed an amended and supplemented complaint in Alaska’s federal court that restarts a paused 2020 lawsuit from the first Trump administration.
A federal court ruled against DTE and EES Coke for violating the Clean Air Act by allowing a Zug Island facility to emit thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide that led to asthma and early death among residents.
An administrative law judge upheld a key permit granted in 2025 by Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for Canadian company Enbridge to build 41 miles of new oil pipeline through the watershed of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in northern Wisconsin.
Notice of intent to sue for violations of the Clean Air Act at the gas turbines power plant located at 2875 Stanton Road S., Southaven, MS, that powers xAI’s Colossus II data center.
An opinion piece by Abigail Dillen (President of Earthjustice), Amanda Leland (Executive Director of Environmental Defense Fund), Manish Bapna (President and CEO of NRDC), and Loren Blackford (Executive Director of the Sierra Club).
Christie Hicks, Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Taxpayers will be paying for this twice — in increased costs for electricity for the Department of Defense and the bailouts to keep those crumbling coal power plants running.”
