Earthjustice

Supreme Court 2024
Gov/Politics

SCOTUS Decisions Cancel, Imperil Environmental Protections

July 1, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on SCOTUS Decisions Cancel, Imperil Environmental Protections

WASHINGTON, DC, July 1, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today in favor of Corner Post, Inc., a truckstop in rural North Dakota, and other rulings issued last week, alter the statute of limitations and other rules for challenging agency actions, threatening the stability of the laws that provide the United States with protections from the unchecked power of corporations such as polluting industries. […]

U.S.-Mexico border wall
Gov/Politics

Biden Waives Vital Environmental Laws to Build Border Wall

October 6, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Biden Waives Vital Environmental Laws to Build Border Wall

WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2023 (ENS) – On his Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021, one of the first things Joe Biden did as President was to deliver a Proclamation lifting his predecessor’s 2019 declaration of an emergency at the U.S. southern border with Mexico, used to justify building a border wall. […]

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Air/Climate

U.S. Agencies to Assess Climate Impact of Federal Projects

January 9, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. Agencies to Assess Climate Impact of Federal Projects

WASHINGTON, DC, January 9, 2023 (ENS) – In a new climate change guidance, the Biden Administration asks federal agencies to account for greenhouse gas emissions as they review proposals for clean energy and other infrastructure projects under the National Environmental Policy Act, commonly called NEPA. […]

Energy

U.S. to Defuel and Close Leaking Pearl Harbor Fuel Facility

March 8, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on U.S. to Defuel and Close Leaking Pearl Harbor Fuel Facility

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 8, 2022 (ENS) – The underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in the hills above the Pearl Harbor Naval Station on Oahu will be de-fueled and permanently closed, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced Monday. The facility holds more than 100 million gallons of fuel in support of U.S. military operations in the Pacific, […]

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Burning Toxic Firefighting Foam Hazardous to Human Health

November 22, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Burning Toxic Firefighting Foam Hazardous to Human Health

WASHINGTON, DC, November 22, 2021 (ENS) – Just a month after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a new plan to cope with the wide spread of PFAS, a group of toxic chemicals used to make products like nonstick cookware and stain-resistant carpeting, warnings are emerging that industrial facilities across the country are unwittingly burning a firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals. […]

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Latest News

Trump Kills Obama’s Atlantic Ocean Monument Designation

June 5, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Trump Kills Obama’s Atlantic Ocean Monument Designation

BANGOR, Maine, June 5, 2020 (ENS) – Today, President Donald Trump traveled to Bangor, Maine to issue a proclamation that opens up the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing, threatening the destruction of this sensitive, biologically important marine reserve. It’s the latest in a long list of Trump’s environmental attacks launched under cover of national and international crises. […]

Montana
Land Use/Forests

Montana Court Vacates 278 BLM Oil and Gas Leases

May 5, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Montana Court Vacates 278 BLM Oil and Gas Leases

GREAT FALLS, Montana, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – Montana landowners, farmers, and conservation groups have won a victory in their effort to protect local groundwater and the climate. A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Land Management, BLM, failed to consider risks to Montana’s environment and water supply before issuing 287 oil and gas leases in the December 2017 and March 2018 lease sales. […]