The Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club filed an appeal today challenging a federal plan authorizing the killing of up to 72 grizzly bears to accommodate livestock grazing in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest, near Yellowstone National Park.
Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, and supported by environmental justice advocates and community members from Northeast Texas, joined the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in New Orleans to present oral argument at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals defending EPA's final sulfur dioxide (SO2) nonattainment designation for the area around Martin Lake, a coal-burning power plant in Northeast Texas.
Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration proposed a rule that will require state Departments of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organizations to establish performance measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from their transportation plans and programs.
After Venture Global LLC failed to provide additional and necessary data regarding its proposed CP LNG export terminal to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency announced that it is suspending the environmental review process for project and its associated pipeline,
En una victoria para la protección y conservación de la vida silvestre, una corte federal de distrito restauró hoy una amplia variedad de protecciones de la Ley de Especies en Peligro a cientos de especies y su hábitats.
Today, in a win for wildlife protection and conservation, a federal district court restored comprehensive Endangered Species Act regulatory protections to hundreds of species and the places they call home. The Services filed a voluntary remand motion in December 2021 in response to a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), National Parks Conservation Association, Wild Earth Guardians, and the Humane Society of the United States challenging harmful rules put in place by the Trump administration in 2019. The Services asked to partially rewrite flawed Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations while keeping them in place during a rulemaking process that could take years to complete. The Court disagreed and vacated the 2019 ESA regulations instead.
Biden administration’s draft five year plan spares communities in 2022, but lays out plans for up to 11 lease sales in the coming years
Ketanji Brown Jackson ha sido oficialmente juramentada como nueva magistrada asociada de la Corte Suprema. La Magistrada Jackson fue confirmada en una votación bipartidista en el Senado Federal en abril y así se convierte en la primera mujer negra en ser nominada y confirmada a la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos.
KANSAS CITY, MO - Yesterday, just hours after the Supreme Court of the United States released its decision to eliminate EPA’s most effective tool for reducing harmful climate pollution from existing power plants, the City of Kansas City, Missouri moved closer to formalizing a plan to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions city- and region-wide.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially sworn in as the newest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Jackson was confirmed by a bipartisan Senate vote in April and is the first Black woman to be nominated and confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.