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Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment.
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The following is a statement from Ted Zukoski, an attorney at Earthjustice, on the publication today of the Bureau of Land Management's draft proposal and environmental impact statement (EIS) concerning oil shale development on federal lands in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Earthjustice represents a dozen conservation groups who challenged the Bush administration's premature give-away of 2 million acres of public land for oil shale commercial leasing.
Judge Emmett Sullivan, in the federal district court today, effectively blocked an 895-MW coal-fired power project in western Kansas—the notorious Sunflower expansion—until a thorough environmental review of the project is finalized. The decision emphasized the significant impacts to human health that would arise if the project was constructed.
The long-term health of national parks, wilderness areas and wildlife refuges across the eastern U.S. states, and of the communities that depend on them, could be in jeopardy if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempts some of the oldest and highest polluting coal-fired power plants from installing the Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART).
The Obama administration revealed its proposed final rules for managing our country’s expansive National Forest system, which is the single largest source of drinking water in the United States, supplying drinking water to 124 million Americans.
Today’s announcement by the U.S. Department of the Interior to sell leases and allow offshore oil drilling in 38 million acres in the Central Gulf of Mexico is troubling, because the regulatory oversight and safety problems that led to BP’s 2010 catastrophic Gulf oil spill haven’t yet been remedied.
A coalition of conservation and American Indian groups today sued the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for failing to protect thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions from U.S. Navy warfare training exercises along the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington.
In a victory for clean air advocates and residents of California’s Central Valley, a federal appeals court on Friday January 20, rejected an inadequate ozone air pollution plan for the San Joaquin Valley. The court found the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the plan was arbitrary and capricious.
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