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Ruling in favor of conservationists clarifies 2023 changes to National Environmental Policy Act

Five Northwest and national environmental groups ask the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board to stay an air permit for an industrial-scale wood pellet plant in Hoquiam, Washington, suspending construction and operation of the facility until the legal challenge is resolved.

Environmental and Gulf-based groups filed an amicus brief today in defense of a federal rule that strengthens financial bonding requirements for offshore oil-and-gas projects thereby reducing the risk of leaving abandoned infrastructure in our oceans and their cleanup costs with taxpayers.

Order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland striking down a flawed federal agency assessment that governs how endangered and threatened marine species should be protected from Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas drilling.

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland strikes down a flawed federal agency assessment that governs how endangered and threatened marine species should be protected from Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas drilling.

Ninth Circuit decision upholds earlier court ruling ordering partial removal of Washington’s electron dam.

Oceana argues that the National Marine Fisheries failed to meet obligations under the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act to protect corals, sponges and other seafloor habitats from bottom trawling.

A coalition of public interest organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit defending the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against challenges to its final rule requiring public companies to disclose climate-related risks to their businesses and plans to manage or mitigate them.

Settlement agreement between plaintiffs Conservation Council for Hawaiʻi and Center for Biological Diversity and defendant BRE Iconic GWR LLC, regarding Hawaiian petrels.

Fish and Wildlife Service is directed to make a new finding as to the status of the upper Missouri River basin distinct population segment of Arctic grayling within twelve months of this order.

U.S. EPA and Guam EPA do not believe that the Andersen Air Force Base (AAFB) permit application submittal provided information that demonstrates that the open burning and open detonation units at AAFB will be addressed in a manner that will ensure protection of human health and the environment. U.S. EPA and Guam EPA are requiring AAFB to submit a revised permit renewal application that addresses the noted deficiencies.

The Hualapai Tribe represented by Earthjustice and Western Mining Action Project has sued the Interior Department and the Bureau of Land Management to stop the drilling of dozens of test holes by a company searching for lithium.

Revised rules still undermine the fundamental purpose of the landmark conservation law

The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC), consisting of Alaska Tribes rooted along Canada’s transboundary rivers, requests that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights call on Canada and B.C. to adopt and implement precautionary measures to prevent irreparable harms to SEITC resulting from the impending approval and construction of the Eskay Creek Revitalization Project, a large gold and silver mine in the transboundary Unuk River in British Columbia.

Court decision in favor of a coalition of environmental organizations backed by eight state Attorneys General and the New Jersey Ratepayer Advocate on their appeal of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) approval of a Williams Co. subsidiary’s Regional Energy Access Expansion (REAE) project, which would expand and allow new methane gas compressor stations and more than 36 miles of new gas pipeline.

Over 360 groups oppose the Manchin-Barrasso Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024.

Riders Alliance and the Sierra Club Mid-Atlantic Chapter, represented by Earthjustice, file a lawsuit against New York Governor Hochul and the State of New York, urging the court to declare the Governor’s actions unlawful, thus lifting the block on the congestion pricing program.

All customers of Oregon’s largest natural gas utility – and low-income customers in particular – will experience lower increases on future utility bills thanks to a victorious partial settlement in a contested rate case between NW Natural and climate and community-based environmental justice organizations.