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.”
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.
Karankawa Tribe of Texas, Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, and Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association urge the U.S. Corps of Engineers to revoke the Clean Water Act permit; undertake supplemental reviews; and/or deny any further extension of the permit and require the Port of Corpus Christi Authority to submit a new permit application for any future proposed terminal at the site. They also request that they be added to the list of “interested parties.”
New York rejected the water quality certification because the application failed demonstrate that the project would comply with the states’ water quality standards
Conservation groups and ranchers appealed a District Court ruling that upheld a flawed water pollution permit for the Rosebud coal mine’s AM5 expansion.
Modeling shows that in the event of a pipeline rupture, dangerous levels of CO2 gas could blanket Sorrento Primary School and Orange Grove subdivision in Ascension Parish, La.
Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.
