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Endangered Species Act/Citizen Suit Action: Earthjustice Alleges U.S. Department of Interior Violations Approving Pinto Valley...

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

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EPA's Proposed Air Quality Standards Will Cause Permitting Gridlock Across Our Economy: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Report Addressing...

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

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Class II Injection Well Permitting: Earthjustice Petitions U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Revoke Ohio's Delegated Program

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an October 11th document titled: Petition to Determine by Rule that Ohio’s Class II Injection Well Permitting Program No Longer Represents an Effective Program to Prevent Underground Injection...more

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Environmental Impacts of Cryptomining: Earthjustice, Sierra Club Release Guidebook

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

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Crude Condensate Terminal Expansion/Point Comfort, Texas: Earthjustice Judicial Petition Challenging TCEQ Air Permit

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

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Warehouses/Indirect Source Rule: Earthjustice Report Addressing E-Commerce

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

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Interstate Ozone/Environmental Groups Citizen Suit Notice to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Arkansas Is One of Twenty...

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

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Bureau of Land Management Waste Prevention Rule: Earthjustice Federal Appellate Court Petition

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

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Ozone NAAQS/Clean Air Act: Earthjustice Files Suit Against U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Alleging Violation of Ozone...

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

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator E. Scott Pruitt Addresses Consent Decrees/Settlement Agreements: October 16th...

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

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Court’s Tentative Decision Sides in Favor of DOGGR in CBD’s Wastewater Injection Lawsuit

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

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Environmental Activists Attack State Water Resources Control Board Order Approving Oil Industry Wastewater Disposal Methods

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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

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - September 2015 #3

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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

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Yet Another Lawsuit Seeking to Limit California Oil Development

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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

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Bakken Crude-by-Rail Update: Transloading Projects Dealt a Setback in California

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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

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Federal Court Orders DOT to Respond to Sierra Club’s Unsafe Tank Car Lawsuit

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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

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Environmental Groups Ramp-up the Crude-by-Rail Fight in the Courtroom

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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

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More Pipeline Development Projects: What America Needs

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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

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