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The Tribe filed a petition for judicial review to halt Enbridge’s planned pipeline

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has filed a petition for judicial review with Wisconsin’s Iron County Circuit Court to challenge Administrative Law Judge Angela Chaput Foy’s decision upholding a key permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute project.

Thirteen Tribal Nations submitted comments to the government opposing the EPA’s proposed rule interpreting Section 401 of the Clean Water Act to undercut tribes’ and states’ authority to protect their own water quality.

Bad River Band and environmental groups weigh next steps

A vote before Congress could open the door to mining in the watershed of the treasured Boundary Waters wilderness.

The U.S. Forest Service releases a final environmental impact statement moving forward with the largest old-growth logging project on the Tongass in years

Separate bill to establish guidelines for data center development to be introduced this legislative session

Thom Cmar, Deputing Managing Attorney, Midwest Regional Office: “It’ll cost all of us in the long run because it will encourage more expensive, dirty coal plants to continue operating for longer and it will mean more arsenic, mercury and lead in our waterways.”

EPA’s proposal creates confusion for state and tribal nations to protect water quality

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “EPA never reviewed these demonstrations. If they did, I am confident that they would likely find that each of the plants are ineligible for an extension.”

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

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

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).

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.”

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.”

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

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.

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.