Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and partner organizations, including the Kentucky Resources Council (KRC) and Earthjustice, have filed briefs in support of an appeal challenging the EPA’s failure to protect communities from PFAS – toxic forever chemicals – in sewage sludge. The appeal – brought by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) – highlights the EPA’s refusal to act despite decades of contaminated sludge being spread on farmland as fertilizer across the country.
A federal court struck down President Trump’s attacks against the Endangered Species Act, restoring key values of the bedrock environmental law to the status it held for decades before attacks by the first Trump administration.
A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from coal-fired power plants.
The EPA finalized a repeal of the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, lifesaving regulations that drastically reduce toxic chemical emissions from the nation’s dirtiest power plants. We’re fighting back.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that permits to build in wetlands should stay in the hands of federal regulators rather than the state of Florida.
Drivers exposed to several types of life-threatening oil and gas waste are now asking the Department of Transportation to enforce regulations to protect them.
A coalition of environmental and community organizations, represented by Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity, filed an amicus brief in the State of Maryland’s case to stop a proposed mass detention facility in Hagerstown.
