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A controversial airport expansion project in the eastern Sierra Nevada will get a much-needed dose of scrutiny from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Earthjustice called the Environmental Protection Agency's decision not to release its final New Source Review report to the public the latest attempt by the Bush administration to shroud the energy policy process in secrecy.

Federal District Judge B. Lynn Winmill has ruled that the U.S. Forest Service cannot go forward with a controversial land exchange on the west slope of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming.

Earthjustice called today's announcement by the Bush administration that it will weaken a key program under the Clean Water Act another extreme example of pandering to the special interests that helped get the President elected.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted today to confirm Donald R. Schregardus of Ohio for the position of assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

Conservation groups filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal district court for failing to protect the California spotted owl and Pacific fisher (a relative of the mink and otter) under the Endangered Species Act.

Reacting to the latest expected attempt by industry to circumvent clean air standards, Earthjustice called the effort an attack on public health.

Earthjustice filed suit in state court to compel Duke Energy's proposed expansion of its Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County to obey the Clean Water Act.

Challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's fundamentally dysfunctional air toxics program, Earthjustice has filed seven lawsuits each day for a week.

Reacting to a new proposed plan from the DC Water and Sewer Authority to be discussed at a public meeting tonight, concerned parties called the proposal grossly inadequate to protect DC rivers from dangerous levels of bacteria and other pollutants.