updated Mon. June 17, 2024
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The Western News
March 22, 2018
“DEQ got it right on the law and did the right thing for Montana by acting to enforce the state's bad actor law against Hecla and its CEO,” Earthjustice attorney Katherine O'Brien said Wednesday via email. “Holding individuals like Baker accountable when the companies they lead run out on their cleanup billÃâà...
Common Dreams
March 22, 2018
"We commend the court for recognizing that this important pesticide safeguard is needed to prevent injury to farmworkers and the public,” said Stacey Geis, Earthjustice managing attorney. “This ruling puts EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on notice that the courts are going to be scrutinizing any rule thatÃâà...
sandpointreader.com
March 22, 2018
Conservation groups like Earthjustice, which requested that the state enforce its bad actor laws against Baker, see the decision as a major victory. For years, activists have challenged the proposed mining operations, saying its environmental impacts will seriously damage the health and welfare of MontanaÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
March 21, 2018
Other environmental advocacy organizations, including EarthJustice, a nonprofit environmental law firm, also have weighed in with either opposition or concerns. At least one of the parcels is less than a mile from the Dunes Park and Preserve eastern boundary and others are less than 5 miles from theÃâà...
Grand Canyon News
March 20, 2018
The tribe and conservation groups are represented by the public-interest law firms Earthjustice and Western Mining Action Project. “This is an attack on the Grand Canyon region, which is bad enough,” said Ted Zukoski, an Earthjustice attorney representing the Havasupai Tribe and conservation groups.
Common Dreams
March 20, 2018
But the court's order keeps the door open and affirms that we are a country of laws; the President gets no exception,” said Erik Grafe, an attorney with Earthjustice representing the plaintiffs. “We now look forward to demonstrating to the court that President Trump violated the law and the constitution inÃâà...
High Country News
March 14, 2018
Some tree species also struggle to survive when smog levels get too high, says Seth Johnson, a staff attorney with the environmental advocacy nonprofit Earthjustice. “They don't grow as well as they did. Some of them will have their leaves blacken, which is a blight.” Other Western cities such as LosÃâà...
EcoWatch
March 10, 2018
President Trump has released his 2019 budget proposal, and when it comes to environmental policy, it's full of bad ideas. The proposal he sent to Congress on Feb. 12 threatens our health, safety and economic future through major cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), essentialÃâà...
InsideSources
March 9, 2018
“The court's ruling recognizes the serious threat this pipeline poses to the Atchafalaya Basin, one of our country's ecological and cultural crown jewels,” said Jan Hasselman, attorney from Earthjustice, which represented the environmental groups in court. “For now, at least, the Atchafalaya is safe from thisÃâà...
Chem.Info
March 9, 2018
Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman said the 5th Circuit's ruling will be a "very important decision." "If they get the stay, construction could be completed before the appeal is resolved," he said. The company said the work stoppage will cost it up to $500,000 per day in construction-related expenses and $6Ãâà...
InsideClimate News
March 8, 2018
The Arrowhead landfill near Uniontown, a predominantly black community in Alabama, became a dump for coal ash waste. Credit: Chris Jordan Bloch/Earthjustice. Black residents of rural Alabama have lost a civil rights claim involving a toxic coal-ash landfill that they blame for asthma, nerve damage andÃâà...
WLOS
March 8, 2018
Alarmingly high levels of radioactivity have been found in the groundwater at Duke Energy Facilities, and Asheville's Lake Julian plant is listed as the worst. That information was compiled by the environmental group Earthjustice based on Duke's monitoring for the EPA. It said recently released data shows levels of radium inÃâà...
Utility Dive
March 6, 2018
According to Earthjustice, which analyzed Duke Energy's results, there were "startlingly high levels of radioactivity at 11 out of 18 plants." And the environmental advocacy group also says Duke appears to have taken steps to obscure the findings by not summarizing its groundwater monitoring results in aÃâà...
InsideClimate News
February 7, 2018
Toxic substances including arsenic may be leaking from unlined pits and contaminating groundwater at hundreds of coal ash storage facilities nationwide, according to an analysis by the environmental law organization Earthjustice. The analysis, an initial review of recently released data from 14 powerÃâà...
Natural Resources Defense Council
December 20, 2017
Earthjustice represents several of the Conservation and Tribal Citizen Groups that filed the lawsuit challenging BLM's illegal suspension of the Rule: Sierra Club, Fort Berthold Protectors of Water & Earth Rights, The Wilderness Society, Western Organization of Resource Councils and Natural ResourcesÃâà...
Utility Dive
December 31, 1999
The Obama administration rule would have required utilities to begin testing water near coal ash facilities for contamination this year, Earthjustice ... Earthjustice estimates there are more than 1,400 coal ash sites in the United States and at least 200 of them are "known to have contaminated water sources."Ãâà...
One Green Planet
December 31, 1999
This exciting victory follows in a string of fossil fuel projects to be canned across the Pacific Northwest, Earthjustice, a non-profit environmental law organization notes. With the help of Earthjustice, activists were able to successfully reject multiple attempts for big oil to set up in the lush, green region.
