Earthjustice
Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. We bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations, coalitions and communities.
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Newswire article Wednesday, August 07, 2019 Groups Sue Trump’s EPA for Refusing to Ban Brain-damaging Pesticide Today, health and labor organizations sued Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to ban a widely used agricultural pesticide linked to damaging children’s brains and farmworker poisonings. “EPA has repeatedly found chlorpyrifos unsafe, especially to children, yet time and time again... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, July 26, 2019 The Trump Administration Releases New Plan for What’s Left of Bears Ears The Trump Administration released its final management plan today for the 15% of Bears Ears National Monument it didn’t strip of monument status. It allows the “chaining” of thousands of acres of forest, and rights of way for new roads and utility lines through the iconic Indian Creek landscape... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, July 18, 2019 Trump’s EPA Keeps Brain-damaging Pesticide in Fruits and Vegetables Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos can still be used on food, although mainstream science says this pesticide is unsafe for children and farmworkers. This decision meets the deadline ordered by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, July 15, 2019 1.8 Million Americans Speak Out Against Stripping Federal Protections from Wolves Almost two million Americans stated their opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to strip endangered species protections from gray wolves in a comment period that closed today. This is one of the largest numbers of comments ever submitted on a federal decision involving endangered... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, July 01, 2019 Environmental Groups Release Thousands of Interior Department Emails Documenting Unlawful Changes to Basic Transparency Measures Hundreds of Interior Department emails, gained through a year of litigation against the Trump administration, reveal harmful new practices at play at Trump’s Interior Department. Earthjustice represented the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth in a lawsuit aimed at shining a light on a new culture... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, June 21, 2019 Earthjustice Welcomes New Director of Tribal Partnerships Last month, Earthjustice welcomed Gussie Lord as Director of Tribal Partnerships, a new position dedicated to deepening the organization’s partnerships with tribal and Indigenous communities. Earthjustice has been privileged to represent many Tribes and tribal groups, including: Standing with the... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, June 18, 2019 U.S. Tribes Decry Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Approval Today, the Canadian government formally approved the construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion. This is the latest move since February, when a Canadian federal agency recommended approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, a move strongly condemned by Coast Salish Tribes and... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, June 18, 2019 U.S. Tribes Decry Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Approval Today, the Canadian government formally approved the construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion. This is the latest move since February, when a Canadian federal agency recommended approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, a move strongly condemned by Coast Salish Tribes and... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Rollbacks of Offshore Drilling Safety Regs Ten environmental groups sued the Trump administration today 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. The coalition of both local and national... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, May 28, 2019 Illinois House and Senate Pass Landmark Legislation to Clean up Coal Ash Yesterday, the Illinois Legislature passed SB9, The Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act , which now heads to the Governor’s desk. The groundbreaking bill addresses the many waste pits filled with coal ash, the toxic byproduct of burning coal, located all over the state. Illinois is now the third... Read more |