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A U.S. District Court in Hawai`i issued an order barring the U.S. Army from conducting live-fire training exercises at Makua Military Reservation (MMR) on O`ahu pending a final decision on whether the Army must prepare a comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

While the Environmental Protection Agency flounders with a dysfunctional regulation program for air toxics, unchecked pollution threatens Americans' health. To address EPA's regulatory lapse, Earthjustice filed today the fifth of seven lawsuits against EPA on behalf of Sierra Club.

Pushing for more effective control of air toxics, Earthjustice today filed the fourth of seven lawsuits challenging the government's chronic failure to protect Americans from the health hazards of toxic air pollution.

In an effort to protect rare salmon habitat, Pilchuck Audubon Society and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility today filed a challenge in federal district court to a development project along the banks of the Snohomish River in Everett, Washington.

News Conference on Judicial Nominations

Continuing to stress the need for stronger and timelier implementation of clean air safeguards, Earthjustice today filed the third of seven lawsuits challenging the federal government's chronic failure to protect Americans from the health hazards of toxic air pollution.

Medical, community, and environmental groups announce intention to sue U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District in 60 days for failure to stop the unhealthy air pollution in San Joaquin Valley.

Responding to a rash of missed clean air deadlines, Earthjustice today filed the second of seven lawsuits challenging the federal government's chronic failure to protect Americans from the health hazards of toxic air pollution. Earthjustice represents Sierra Club in its second suit this week against the Environmental Protection Agency.

Earthjustice today filed the first of seven lawsuits challenging the federal government's chronic failure to protect Americans from the health hazards of toxic air pollution. The defendant is the very agency tasked with providing such protection: the Environmental Protection Agency.

Reacting to a decision by the Bush administration to reconsider provisions of an important Clean Water Act program, Earthjustice called today's action another example of the Bush team trying to use backdoor tactics to derail important environmental protections in the United States.