Oil

June 11, 2019 | Legal Document

Complaint: Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Rollbacks of Offshore Drilling Safety Regs

Ten environmental groups — Earthjustice, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Healthy Gulf, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Earth, North Carolina Coastal Federation, and South Carolina Coastal Conservation League — sued the Trump administration to challenge rollbacks of the 2016 Well Control and Blowout Preventer Rule, a safety regulation meant to prevent another blowout like what happened during the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.

June 10, 2019 | Press Release

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Rollbacks of Offshore Drilling Safety Regs

Rollbacks target drilling safeguards designed to prevent another Deepwater Horizon disaster

May 16, 2019 | Press Release

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Approval of Massive Utah Oil Shale Development

Water-sucking project threatens endangered species, climate, air quality

May 16, 2019 | Press Release

Juez Permite a la Organización Healthy Gulf Intervenir en la Demanda Judicial Contra Taylor Energy Por Derrame de Petróleo de 14 Años

Guardia Costera Reporta Que Un Sistema de Contención Está Completamente Instalado Y En Funcionamiento

May 16, 2019 | Press Release

Judge Allows Healthy Gulf to Intervene in Taylor Energy Lawsuit over 14 Year Oil Spill

Coast Guard reports containment system is now fully installed and operating

May 16, 2019 | Legal Document

Taylor Energy Spill: Coast Guard's Status Update on Containing the Spill

Coast Guard reports most of the leak is contained

May 14, 2019 | From the Experts

EPA Must Protect Communities from Hydrogen Cyanide Exposure

All communities have a right to healthy air, and sharing a fenceline with a refinery does not lessen this right.

May 13, 2019 | In the News: Willamette Weekly

U.S. Supreme Court Dismisses Oil Industry Lawsuit Challenging Oregon’s Clean Fuels Standard

Amanda Goodin, Attorney, Northwest Regional Office, Earthjustice: "Big Oil's last ditch effort to undercut state authority to require cleaner fuels has failed again. This will help pave the way for more states to adopt programs to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with confidence that their efforts will be upheld in court."