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September 15, 2021 | Feature

Landmark Legal Cases to Secure Clean Water and Clean Air as a Right For All

For five decades, Earthjustice has fought thousands of legal cases, representing our client free of charge. See some of our proudest accomplishments to secure clean water and clean air as a right for all.

September 14, 2021 | Press Release

Coalition of Experts Sound Alarm on Line 5 Pipeline’s Threats to Tribal Interests and Climate Change

Experts stress the most immediate step in addressing the climate crisis is to stop building new fossil fuel infrastructure

September 10, 2021 | Press Release

EPA to Regulate Some Industrial PFAS Discharges

Agency to establish new limitations under wastewater pollution guidelines

September 9, 2021 | Article

10 Artists Moving Us to Take a Stand Against Coal Ash Pollution

Photographers, sculptors, muralists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets are using their art to expose the threat of coal ash and advocate for clean air and drinking water.

September 9, 2021 | Press Release: Victory

In Response to Lawsuit, EPA Pledges to Strengthen Standards for Slaughterhouse Water Pollution

EPA announced that it will initiate a rulemaking process to reduce pollution from three industries: Meat and poultry processing plants, which include slaughterhouses; metal finishing businesses; and manufacturers of organic chemicals that discharge polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

September 1, 2021 | Update

Clean Water Protections Restored For Millions of Streams and Wetlands

Now it’s up to the Biden administration to boost protections for waterways, rivers, and ephemeral streams that are critical for the environment.

August 30, 2021 | Press Release: Victory

Judge Ditches Trump’s Dirty Water Rule

Navigable Waters Protection Rule, repudiated for gutting water protections, is no longer the law of the land

August 30, 2021 | Legal Document

WOTUS - Order Remand and Vacate (August 2021)

On August 30, 2021, a U.S District Court for the District of Arizona said Trump’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule is illegal and should be vacated. The ruling restores protections for thousands of waterways across the Nation. It represents the culmination of a lawsuit brought by six federally recognized Indian tribes, who are represented by Earthjustice and sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers for passing a rule that eliminated Clean Water Act protections for thousands of waterbodies by redefining them as not “waters of the US.”

August 24, 2021 | In the News: E&E News

Line 3 is about to come online. What will Biden do?

Moneen Nasmith, Attorney, Northeast Office, Earthjustice: “Enbridge’s activities are causing serious harm to wetlands, waterways, and indigenous cultural resources every day they continue.”

August 21, 2021 | In the News: NBC News

Raw sewage polluted this Black community. Now residents are fighting back.

Debbie Chizewer, Attorney, Midwest Office: "They literally have to start from the beginning."

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Landmark Legal Cases to Secure Clean Water and Clean Air as a Right For All

Coalition of Experts Sound Alarm on Line 5 Pipeline’s Threats to Tribal Interests and Climate Change

EPA to Regulate Some Industrial PFAS Discharges

10 Artists Moving Us to Take a Stand Against Coal Ash Pollution

In Response to Lawsuit, EPA Pledges to Strengthen Standards for Slaughterhouse Water Pollution

Clean Water Protections Restored For Millions of Streams and Wetlands

Judge Ditches Trump’s Dirty Water Rule

WOTUS - Order Remand and Vacate (August 2021)

Line 3 is about to come online. What will Biden do?

Raw sewage polluted this Black community. Now residents are fighting back.

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