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September 4, 2014 | Press Release

Community Groups Petition EPA for Precedent Setting Case on Civil Rights Violations

Decade-long struggle with North Carolina over public health shifts to the EPA as community groups state lax oversight of hog operations violates civil rights.

August 6, 2013 | Press Release

Groups Go To Court to Protect Buffalo National River from Factory Hog Farm Waste

Lawsuit challenges federal loan guarantees for industrial swine facility in the Buffalo National River watershed

August 2, 2013 | Case

Defending the Clean Water Act Against Agricultural Pollution

Earthjustice is defending the U.S. EPA’s authority to regulate pollution from large agricultural operations.

August 1, 2013 | Press Release

Local and National Groups Defend Clean Water Act against Agricultural Pollution

Chicken manure threatens Potomac River in West Virginia case; Groups file legal brief to protect public health and environment

July 29, 2013 | Case

Cleaning Up Industrial Dairy Farms in New York

A coalition of environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for its deregulation of industrial dairy farms with 200–299 cows.

July 29, 2013 | Press Release

Environmental Coalition Fights Deregulation of Industrial Dairy Farms in New York

Lawsuit challenges DEC for overstepping its authority and for violating Federal Clean Water Act and State Environmental Quality Review Act requirements

May 10, 2013 | Case

Defending America's First National River

Earthjustice is challenging the federal government’s financial assistance to a large hog facility operating in the watershed of the Buffalo River, the nation’s first national river.

April 3, 2013 | Article

EPA Shares Water Priorities, Action Timelines on Twitter

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency that 55 percent of U.S. streams and rivers are in “poor” condition, according to its most recent national rivers and streams assessment.

January 9, 2013 | Case

Challenging Ammonia Emissions from an Industrial Egg Farm

Earthjustice is representing groups in efforts to clean up ammonia pollution from a massive industrial chicken operation. Rose Acre’s Hyde County facility, the largest industrial egg farm in North Carolina.

December 11, 2012 | Article

W. Virginia Factory Farm Seeks Right To Pollute

Recently the EPA ordered an industrial animal factory in West Virginia to clean up massive amounts of chicken manure and other pollution lying around the ground, lest they end up in local streams after it rains.

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