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April 26, 2018 | Press Release

Pipeline Construction Races Forward in the Atchafalaya Basin Ahead of Hearing

Bayou Bridge pipeline causes further irreparable harm during peak crawfish season

April 25, 2018 | Blog Post

Court Rules Mega-Dairies Can’t Keep Spreading Mega Waste in Secret

The New York Supreme Court sided with environmental groups, telling the state to revise a permit that has allowed huge industrial dairies to spread tons of manure onto nearby land without adequate safeguards.

April 20, 2018 | Blog Post

Hawaiʻi Scores Another Big Win in Stopping Harmful Aquarium Fishing, Protecting Reefs and Native Hawaiians

Citizens and conservation groups recently achieved another big legal victory after a circuit court ruled that all recreational aquarium collection permits are void.

April 6, 2018 | Blog Post

The Next Battle in the Fight to Stop Dirty Pipelines

Earthjustice and its clients won a huge victory when a federal judge shut down the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana; a federal appeals court will decide what comes next.

April 4, 2018 | Press Release

Conservation Coalition Seeks to Defend DEQ Enforcement Action Against Hecla Mining

Groups seek to intervene in lawsuit aiming to overturn DEQ’s determinations that Hecla and Baker are in violation of the bad actor provisions

March 30, 2018 | Press Release: Victory

Federal Appeals Court Reaffirms Maui Clean Water Act Decision

9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejects Maui County’s petition for the full court to reconsider whether Maui County violated the Clean Water Act by injecting millions of gallons of treated sewage each day into wells that discharge into the Pacific Ocean

March 20, 2018 | Press Release: Victory

Montana DEQ Announces that Hecla Mining Company, National Mining Association Chairman Phillips Baker in Violation of Montana’s “Bad Actor” Laws

DEQ issues violation letters to Rock Creek and Montanore Mine developers in response to conservation coalition’s enforcement request

March 15, 2018 | Legal Document

Bayou Bridge Pipeline: Court Order on Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

In The United States Court Of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit

March 15, 2018 | In the News: Pacific Standard Magazine

Can The Menominee Tribe In Wisconsin Block The Back Forty Mine?

Janette Brimmer, Attorney, Earthjustice: "The federal government has consultation obligations to tribes, and there's a very specific process that's laid out in law on how that's supposed to progress. That process is not what's happening with the state."

March 8, 2018 | Blog Post

Clean Water Rule Rider Sells Democracy Downriver

Congress is using a harmful, sneaky provision in a large must-pass spending bill to try and make it easier for EPA to repeal the Clean Water Rule without public or legal oversight.

Water

Pipeline Construction Races Forward in the Atchafalaya Basin Ahead of Hearing

Court Rules Mega-Dairies Can’t Keep Spreading Mega Waste in Secret

Hawaiʻi Scores Another Big Win in Stopping Harmful Aquarium Fishing, Protecting Reefs and Native Hawaiians

The Next Battle in the Fight to Stop Dirty Pipelines

Conservation Coalition Seeks to Defend DEQ Enforcement Action Against Hecla Mining

Federal Appeals Court Reaffirms Maui Clean Water Act Decision

Montana DEQ Announces that Hecla Mining Company, National Mining Association Chairman Phillips Baker in Violation of Montana’s “Bad Actor” Laws

Bayou Bridge Pipeline: Court Order on Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Can The Menominee Tribe In Wisconsin Block The Back Forty Mine?

Clean Water Rule Rider Sells Democracy Downriver

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