Air Products is in pursuit of an Army Corps Clean Water Act 404 permit and Louisiana Coastal Use Permit that would allow for the construction of a carbon sequestration facility. If Air Products gets the permits, it will be authorized to build a 24-inch pipeline that would carry pressurized carbon dioxide from its proposed plant to wells beneath Lake Maurepas. Construction would impact water quality and harm aquatic life and could negatively affect home values and businesses that thrive off the current uses of the lake.
Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.
Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.
Plaintiffs Friends of the Everglade and Center for Biological Diversity respectfully file this motion for expedited relief seeking entry of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo during the pendency of this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to enforce the National Environmental Policy Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and state and local laws prohibiting the ongoing construction of an immigration detention center within the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.
El plan amenaza con socavar miles de millones de dólares que los contribuyentes estadounidenses invirtieron en la restauración del emblemático humedal ubicado en el sur de la Florida
