Earthjustice sent a June 11th 60-day Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) citizen suit Notice of Intent to Sue (“NOI”) to the Tonto National Forest (“Forest”). The NOI alleges that Forest violated Section 7 of the ESA in its...more
The United States Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber”) issued a November 2023 report titled: EPA’s Proposed Air Quality Standards Will Cause Permitting Gridlock Across Our Economy (“Report”)...more
Earthjustice (“EJ”) filed an October 11th document titled: Petition to Determine by Rule that Ohio’s Class II Injection Well Permitting Program No Longer Represents an Effective Program to Prevent Underground Injection...more
The environmental organizations Earthjustice and Sierra Club (collectively, “Earthjustice”) announced they have published a guidebook titled: The Energy Bomb: How Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrency Mining Worsens the Climate...more
Earthjustice on behalf of certain organizations and an individual filed a May 9th Petition before the 201st District Court in Travis County, Texas, challenging the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (“TCEQ”) issuance...more
Earthjustice published what it describes as a “Fact Sheet” (“Report”) titled: Minimizing the Negative Impact of E-Commerce: Why We Need an Indirect Source Rule ...more
A coalition of environmental groups represented by Earthjustice put the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on notice they intend to file a Clean Air Act citizen suit action over the agency’s alleged failure...more
Earthjustice on behalf of various organizations filed an April 20th Motion for Stay Pending Appeal (“Motion”) addressing the Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) Waste Prevention Rule (“Rule”). The Motion challenges a...more
The environmental organization Earthjustice filed a Federal District Court lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”)...more
United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator E. Scott Pruitt issued two documents dated October 16th addressing procedures involved in the resolution of litigation through consent decrees and settlement...more
As reported in a previous blog post, Earthjustice, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”), filed a lawsuit against the California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (“DOGGR”) in May 2015. The...more
On August 28, Earthjustice filed a petition with the State Water Resources Control Board (“Water Board”) seeking to overturn a Central Valley Regional Water Board (“Regional Board”) order allowing an oil and gas wastewater...more
Environmental and Policy Focus - United States, China sign landmark climate change declaration at Los Angeles summit: Courthouse News - Sep 15: U.S. and Chinese leaders on Tuesday signed a landmark declaration on climate...more
The clamor over hydraulic fracturing continued Wednesday as environmental activists filed another lawsuit to limit oil and gas development in California. The lawsuit, filed by Earthjustice on behalf of the Center for...more
Recently, we covered environmental groups’ increasing array of state-law challenges to midstream and end users of Bakken crude that transport or receive oil by rail. Since then, a California regulator has admitted to...more
A Federal Court has ordered the Department of Transportation (DOT) to respond to a lawsuit filed by three environmental organizations—Earthjustice, Sierra Club and ForestEthics—in which the parties asked the court to order...more
Bakken crude producers and midstream transportation companies already experience transportation woes related to inadequate pipeline infrastructure, railroad capacity, tank car supply, rail accidents, and new regulations. But...more
National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) challenges to pipeline projects and other natural gas infrastructure have become a commonplace tool in recent years for environmental groups seeking to defeat or delay midstream...more