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What Our Trump Lawsuits Are All About
The environmental movement has made huge gains since the 1970s, and we won’t let the lawless actions of the current administration reverse our hard-won progress.
Earthjustice Reacts to Senate Parliamentarian Reaffirming States’ Rights to Clean their Air Under the Clean Air Act
State waivers for stronger tailpipe standards are not subject to the Congressional Review Act
Earthjustice Responds to ‘Emergency’ Forests Directive That Lays Groundwork for Widespread Industrial Logging
Secretarial memo following Trump Executive Order seeks widespread increase of logging across federal forests
New House Republican proposal seeks to exempt many toxic PFAS from review
Michael Youhana, Attorney, Northeast Office: “Even small releases or small bits of exposure to PFAS can cause devastating effects to the environment and human beings, and that’s why this doesn’t make sense.”
Mining the Past, Threatening the Future
Laura Berglan, Attorney, Tribal Partnerships Program: “We’re pleased that they withdrew their plan. That means that for now, the sacred sites are protected from drilling and that the community members can continue to use Ha’Kamwe’ in line with their spiritual and cultural practices.”
Medicaid, Pollution, and Policy Failures — An Overlooked Cycle
Lawmakers are gutting both Medicaid and environmental protections, endangering vulnerable communities.
Pennsylvania to host largest-ever U.S. gas plant to fuel data centers
Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “This is part of a larger trend of states and utilities green-lighting new fossil fuel infrastructure to enable trillion-dollar tech companies to expand their energy-intensive data centers — derailing progress toward a clean energy future.”
Tribes, Greens Take Line 5 Tunnel to Michigan’s Supreme Court
Tribes and environmental orgs are asking the Court to overturn a state agency’s permit
An Oil Tunnel is Threatening the Great Lakes
The Line 5 pipeline has already leaked over 1 million gallons of oil to date and threatens the Great Lakes. Time is running out to stop one company’s dangerous plans to keep the oil flowing.
Line 5 Tunnel Application for Leave to Appeal Before MI Supreme Court
Four Michigan Tribes and environmental groups ask the state Supreme Court to consider overturning a lower court decision that upheld the Michigan Public Service Commission’s permit for the Line 5 tunnel project.
One of America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants Seeks Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card from Trump
Montana’s Colstrip plant asks Trump administration for clean air standard exemption
Legal Experts Explain the Harms of EPA’s Deregulatory Agenda
A huge array of environmental protections are on the chopping block.
From Our Clients: The Lawsuit Over Trump Administration’s IRA Funding Freeze
“This funding freeze is more than an administrative delay. It is actively harming the people.”
Army Corps of Engineers branch overseeing Line 5 tunnel project gains emergency processing authority
Debbie Chizewer, Managing Attorney, Midwest Office, Earthjustice: “If the Corps advances the Line 5 tunnel project through this process, we expect them to comply with the law. The truth is there is no national energy emergency, and even if there was, Line 5 is a pipeline that transports Canadian oil primarily to Canada. It will…
Two-Pager: New York Should Keep on Trucking with its Advanced Clean Trucks Rule
New York should not delay its Advanced Clean Trucks rule to protect New Yorkers’ health and clean the air.
Nicholas Morales
Nicholas Morales is a Senior Attorney with the Washington, D.C. Regional Office.
Environmental groups sue DEC over failure to launch cap-and-invest
Rachel Spector, attorney at Earthjustice, discusses the lawsuit with Capital Tonight.
As EPA pulls back, schoolchildren could face the steepest risks
Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation for Healthy Communities, Earthjustice: “The law demands that EPA control these pollutants, and demands that EPA protect families and communities. And these impacts on these communities most heavily land on the shoulders of children. Children are more susceptible to the harms from pollutants, and these pollutants are often happening right…