Farming For Our Future

Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette pilots a small boat on the Cape Fear River, with Earthjustice attorney Alexis Andiman seated in the boat. They are collecting water samples in the Cape Fear River near the Smithfield slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina, on October 2023.

Through litigation, legislative and administrative advocacy, and communications, Earthjustice’s Sustainable Food and Farming team advances the transition to a cleaner, safer, and more climate-friendly food system.

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Coal Ash Stories Come to Washington

The devastating TVA Kingston coal ash spill of 2008.

Federal coal ash protections are due in December, provided Congress doesn’t get in the way. Citizens arrived in Washington to tell their coal ash stories.

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EPA Ears Filled With Toxic Refinery Stories

Jesse Marquez of the Coalition for a Safe Environment (third from left) shows EPA staffers and others a Wilmington oil refinery, shortly before the public hearing.

One sunny Wednesday in Wilmington, California, instead of spending the day at work or taking their kids to the beach, community members gathered to tell the Environmental Protection Agency what it is like living near large oil refineries.

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