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Power plants are the biggest sources of water pollution in the country. Power plant water discharges are filled with toxic pollution such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and selenium.
(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Photo)
Press Release December 24, 2025

Trump Administration’s EPA Dumps Wastewater Treatment Standards for Coal-fired Power Plants

EPA issues rule to allow ongoing release of toxic chemicals into sources of drinking water for more than 30 million Americans

Plastic pellet (nurdle) pollution near Dow-UCC Braskem plastic production facility in Seadrift, Texas. (San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper)
Press Release December 17, 2025

Texas Waterkeeper Issues Notice of Intent to Sue for Illegal Water Pollution at Texas Plastics Plant

Notice of intent to sue details Clean Water Act violations at Seadrift, Texas, facility, including unpermitted plastic nurdle discharges

document December 17, 2025

60-day Notice of Intent to Sue for Violations of the Clean Water Act at the Seadrift Operations Facility

This is a 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue (NOI) for Clean Water Act violations at a plastics manufacturing facility in Seadrift, Texas, operated by Dow Hydrocarbons and Resources LLC, Union Carbide Corporation and Braskem America, Inc. on the behalf of our clients San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper with co-counsel at Environmental Integrity Project (EIP).

In the News: NPR December 16, 2025

Colorado approves ‘first-in-the-nation’ water safeguards. Could they be a model for other states?

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “This is hopefully a powerful message to other states that they can and should do this, and we can all be in this together and protect our collective waters.”

In the News: KHON December 16, 2025

State Water Commission fines West Maui landowner for violating water standards

Dru Hara, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office: “These are the folks who are the stakeholders that are most immediately affected by these violations. And I think if we’re gonna come up with any meaningful solutions of water in West Maui, the community needs to be consulted in a meaningful way.”

August 12th, 2025: The White River as seen on the Bad River Reservation on August 12th, 2025. (Steven Garcia for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 16, 2025

Bad River Band Challenges Federal Approval for Line 5 Reroute

Wisconsin Tribe asks D.C. federal court to overturn the U.S. Army Corps’ oil pipeline permit

document December 16, 2025

Bad River Band Challenge to USACE Permit for Line 5 Reroute

Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa against the US Army Corps of Engineers for unlawfully granting Canadian company Enbridge a permit for the construction of a new 41-mile section of its Line 5 oil pipeline.

Protestors stand on shore after the Pipe Out Paddle Up Flotilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City, Michigan, in 2022. Protestors paddled out in the water in canoes and kayaks holding signs to protest the pipeline. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
Article December 10, 2025

An Oil Pipeline is Threatening the Great Lakes

The Line 5 pipeline has already leaked over 1 million gallons of oil to date and threatens the Great Lakes. Time is running out to stop one company’s dangerous plans to keep the oil flowing.

Press Release November 25, 2025

EPA Proposes to Delay Closure of Some of the Largest Toxic Coal Ash Ponds, in Violation of the Law

Trump’s EPA proposal would allow EPA to grant 11 coal power plants extensions to continue dumping toxic coal ash in unlined ponds until October 17, 2031

Louie Wagner Jr. casts for ooligan on the Unuk River, as his family has for generations. (Sonia Luokkala / SEITC)
Article November 21, 2025

Rampant Gold Mining in British Columbia Threatens Salmon and Indigenous Rights

Toxic gold mining along rivers crossing the British Columbia-Alaska border threatens critical ecosystems and the sovereign rights of Alaska Native communities.

West Olive, Michigan, The J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Michigan. Consumers Energy had planned to retire the plant on May 31, 2025, but President Trump ordered it to keep operating. (Jim West / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Press Release November 19, 2025

Trump Administration Issues a Third Sham Emergency Order to Force the J.H. Campbell Power Plant to Keep Burning Coal

The costs of running the unnecessary coal power plant surpassed $80 million in September

Wetlands on South Carolina's Kiawah Island.
(Daniela Duncan / Getty Images)
Update November 18, 2025

Trump’s EPA Just Tried to Gut the Protections That Keep Our Drinking Water Clean

We’re prepared to go to court to defend clean water as a right for all.

Press Release November 18, 2025

Groups Challenge New York State’s Approval of the NESE Pipeline Over Significant Risks to Water Quality

The pipeline project was rejected by the state two prior times over water quality threats

document November 18, 2025

Petition for Review NYS-DEC Section 401 Fed Clean Water Act NESE

Petition filed at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for review of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s decision dated November 7, 2025 to grant the application of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC for a water quality certification under Section 401 of the federal Clean Water Act.

JJ Waters stands in the surf along the shore near her home in Pensacola Beach, Florida. (Gregg Pachkowski for Earthjustice)
Article November 18, 2025

Trump’s Ocean Drilling Sale Risks Another Disaster for Gulf Communities — We’re Suing

15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, the Trump administration is illegally selling off nearly 80 million acres of public waters in the Gulf for oil and gas drilling.

In the News: Sacramento Bee November 17, 2025

Newsom promotes climate leadership abroad, blocks data center transparency at home

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “There aren’t existing mechanisms to know individual energy use, individual water use. And any one large data center can destabilize surrounding infrastructure. To regulate in an informed manner, we need information. We need data.”

Press Release November 17, 2025

Water Commission Allows Golf Course to Unlawfully Irrigate with Drinking Water Amid Ongoing West Maui Drought

Since August, the commission chair has knowingly let TY Management Corp. use potable groundwater for golf turf irrigation in violation of the law

document November 17, 2025

Letter to Rescind Groundwater Irrigation of Maui Golf Courses

Request to rescind and correct Chair Chang’s correspondence allowing the use of groundwater for irrigation on the Kapalua Bay and Plantation Golf Courses.