Regional Office

Gulf Office

Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice

1-800-584-6460
info@earthjustice.org

Media Inquiries

Dustin Renaud
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
drenaud@earthjustice.org

Legal Assistance Inquiries

Contacto de Prensa

Robert Valencia
Estratega de Comunicaciones y Asuntos Públicos Hispanos/Latinos
rvalencia@earthjustice.org

The Gulf Regional Office works with communities and other partners fighting for a healthy and just future in the Gulf. We work to cut pollution, end fossil fuel expansion, protect our region’s precious places and wildlife, transition to clean energy, and drive climate solutions that work for everyone.

Our Impact

Earthjustice represents Gulf and environmental groups in lawsuits against a proposed massive petrochemical complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana, and against the expansion of an oil and gas export terminal through a toxic Superfund site in Point Comfort, Texas. We stand alongside our hundreds of public-interest clients across the country, at the frontlines of the fight for justice and a healthy environment for all.

In recent years, Earthjustice and our partners have succeeded in:

Recent News
Polly Glover walks onto the dock at the St. James Boat Club launch, along Blind River, part of the Lake Maurepas watershed, in Gramercy, La., Monday, April 11, 2022. The environmental advocate, who has been working for 30 years to preserve the place she’s loved since childhood, is wary of anything that might make air quality worse or threaten wildlife, fearing a plant designed to capture climate-changing carbon and make clean-burning hydrogen fuel will actually do more harm to the Lake Maurepas basin.
July 1, 2025 document

Fact Sheet: Air Products’ Proposed Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Facility on Lake Maurepas

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...

June 11, 2025 document

Project Divestment of Air Products Blue Energy’s Proposed Louisiana Clean Energy Complex

Letter asking the Army Corp and the Office of Coastal Management at the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to suspend their respective processing of the pending applications of Air Products Blue Energy, LLC.

A haze of smog covers the Port of Houston.
April 28, 2025 Press Release: Victory

Army Corps revokes permit and agrees to full environmental review if project is to move forward near toxic San Jacinto Waste Pits

After lawsuit, agency revokes “Letter of Permission” shortcut, commits to proper environmental assessment of dredging and barge mooring risks

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