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The progress we have secured is a testament to the fact that the law and science are on our side. It also reflects the desire of most people across the country for a safer and cleaner world. Our shared wins represent decades of painstaking work, culminating in concrete measures that will save lives across the country. We’re celebrating our victories and the many opportunities ahead.

Air Products is in pursuit of an Army Corps’ Clean Water Act 404 permit and a Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources’ Coastal Use Permit (CUP) that would allow for the construction of a carbon sequestration facility.

EPA and Army Corps illegally approved costly project without considering practicable alternatives

Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.

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.

The U.S. District Court in Alaska orders the mine’s permitting agencies to take a more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by revising the project’s environmental study

The U.S. District Court in Alaska issued a court order requiring Donlin Mine’s federal permitting agencies to take more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by supplementing the project’s environmental study,

As EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin prepares to appear before Congress, his public claims unravel under the weight of the facts.

Tribal plaintiffs are asking the court to vacate federal authorizations for the mine while federal agencies redo the flawed and illegal environmental study

Christina Reichert, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “When you look at the language in the technical assistance process, it doesn’t include the things they failed to do at the programmatic level. There’s no baseline analysis. There’s no requirement to use the best available science. There’s no requirement for them to do an effects analysis.”

Three Alaska Native tribes challenge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of a fill permit for a controversial suction dredge gold mining operation proposed about 30 miles east of Nome in Northwest Alaska.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers initially rejected the mining permit but last year reversed its decision, approving harmful gold dredging that could destroy a prized estuary

Environmental laws have made our lives safer and healthier. Earthjustice will fight for them in court.

If the Trump administration breaks the law to hold timber sales, we will see them in court.

Earthjustice blasts new Trump administration efforts to ignore dozens of laws to fast-track harmful border wall construction

The Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies will wreak havoc on laws that protect everyone’s health and the environment.

The settlement resolves a Clean Water Act lawsuit filed in 2023 by Earthjustice on behalf of community group Hui Mālama Honokōhau

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, Oceans: “We’re in a situation where efforts to weaken clean water protections are not only terrible public policy, because all Americans need and deserve clean water, it’s also a situation where we would be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by weakening protections for clean water.”