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.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Tuesday, May 07, 2019 Advocates Challenge EPA for Leaving Weak Clean Air Protections in Place in Eight States On Tuesday, the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s failure to increase protections in numerous communities that have dangerous levels of ozone smog. The communities at... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, May 02, 2019 Trump Administration Expected to Weaken Post-Deepwater Horizon Offshore Drilling Safety Regs The Trump administration is expected to issue a rule rolling back safety regulations designed to prevent another Deepwater Horizon tragedy. The Well Control and Blowout Preventer Rule, finalized under the Obama administration, requires real-time oversight of risky drilling operations and... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Indiana Regulators Reject Utility’s Proposal for Massive Gas Plant Today, regulators at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission rejected a proposal for a new gas-fired power plant by Vectren, a CenterPoint Energy Company which is a Houston-based utility company. Vectren first proposed the plant in early 2018 to replace the bulk of its aging, inefficient coal-... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Earthjustice Responds to Trump Executive Order, Urges EPA to Ensure Transparency and Public Input in Clean Water Protections Earthjustice, leading a group of 16 conservation and community groups, sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today objecting to the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken clean water protections without public input. The letter comes in response to an executive order signed by... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Trump’s EPA Sued for Leaving Workers Exposed to Deadly Chemical in Paint Strippers On Friday, Latino workers, environmental and public health advocates, and the mothers of two young men who died from methylene chloride exposure sued the Trump administration for excluding workers from a rule banning methylene chloride from use in paint strippers . While the Environmental... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 16, 2019 South Africa: Activists in Mining Areas Harassed Community activists in mining areas in South Africa face harassment, intimidation, and violence, the Centre for Environmental Rights, groundWork, Earthjustice, and Human Rights Watch said in a joint report and video released today. The attacks and harassment have created an atmosphere of fear for... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, April 02, 2019 Conservation Groups Announce Intent to Sue to Protect Atlantic Sharks, Giant Manta Rays from Lethal Longlines, Gillnets On behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice today filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to protect oceanic whitetip sharks and giant manta rays from being killed by longlines and huge nets used by U.S. fishermen in Atlantic... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, March 15, 2019 Trump’s Methylene Chloride Rule Leaves Workers Exposed to Deadly Chemical Today, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a rule that leaves workers across the United States exposed to methylene chloride, a lethal chemical used in paint strippers that has already caused dozens of worker deaths. Breaking EPA’s repeated promises to ban commercial and consumer uses of... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, March 06, 2019 Trump Administration Proposes Stripping Protections for Wolves Across the Nation Today acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced a proposal to strip federal Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across nearly the entire lower-48 states, reversing gray wolf recovery in the United States. The proposed rule would remove federal Endangered Species Act... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, February 28, 2019 Senate Republicans Confirm Coal Lobbyist Andrew “Wheeler-Dealer” to Head EPA The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist with extensive ties to dirty energy companies now advocating for severe rollbacks for public health protections, to head the Environmental Protection Agency this afternoon. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has... Read more |