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Montana and Idaho waters endure harmful pollution from upstream Canadian coal mines

A Montana District Court upheld Montana’s selenium water quality standard for Lake Koocanusa (Koocanusa Reservoir), affirming the science-based limits necessary to protect fish and other aquatic life.

Mientras afirma promover la salud, la EPA está eliminando las protecciones contra sustancias químicas tóxicas presentes en el aire, los alimentos y el agua

While claiming to promote health, the EPA is removing protections from toxic chemicals in air, food, and water

The Whatcom County Hearing Examiner sided with six local environmental groups in ruling that Whatcom County mishandled its review of a series of expansions of a liquefied petroleum gas facility near Bellingham. The County must now conduct an independent capacity analysis of the terminal expansion and redo its environmental analysis.

Organizations fear harm to waters, wilderness area, and ESA-protected species

A coalition of local and national organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s fast-tracked approval of the Libby Exploration Project in northwestern Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.

Federal government, not state, will remain in charge of wetlands permitting under the Clean Water Act

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that permits to build in wetlands should stay in the hands of federal regulators rather than the state of Florida.

Border wall and water buoys pose an inevitable and irreversible threat to human life, property, and the environment

Groups claim Montana DEQ failed to analyze impacts to, water, agriculture, wildlife, climate and the community

Several Montana groups appealed a District Court decision that failed to address the harmful impacts of the Bull Mountains Coal Mine’s AM6 expansion.

The Organized Village of Kasaan is fighting alongside other Southeast Alaska tribes and forest advocates to defend the Tongass National Forest.

Earthjustice is representing Diane Wilson as she joins a legal challenge to a massive plastics facility owned by Dow and Union Carbide.

Microplastics can now be found just about everywhere in the environment, including – most alarming – in our own bodies.

Local group hopes to join the suit to ensure environmental enforcement that would prevent plastic pollution from entering San Antonio Bay

This is a petition for intervention into Texas’s state lawsuit against Dow, et al., for microplastics pollution from its Seadrift Plastics facility.

BP’s “Kaskida” project, which the Trump administration just approved, could become a sequel to Deepwater Horizon.