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2 months ago | 
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The Superior Court for the District of Columbia denied Tyson Food, Inc.’s efforts to avoid liability and allowed the case to move forward.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
earthjustice.org | Shirley Hao
With thousands evacuated or facing losses due to wildfires in the Los Angeles area, here are community and environmental groups you can support.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Elizabeth Kieszkowski
This article was originally published at Honolulu Star-Advertiser and is republished by permission. The court overturned a 2021 state Water Commission decision for failing to take the initiative to return more flows to the streams after the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co. plantation closed in 2016. As the ruling makes clear, Hawai‘i’s Constitution establishes a powerful public trust duty to protect water resources and Native Hawaiian water rights. This duty is affirmative — it compels action.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
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The Oregon Public Utility Commission requires NW Natural to stop using customer funds to subsidize gas pipeline expansion, and removes costs for the company’s lobbying activities from rates
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
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Each Hydrogen Hub will include a wide range of projects. Potential harms and benefits from specific projects will vary significantly.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
In February 2020, residents of a small town in Mississippi began experiencing unexplained sickness. Dozens of people were rushed to the local hospital, some of whom had passed out while driving their cars. The culprit wasn’t a virus, but an asphyxiant. A pipeline carrying carbon dioxide, or CO2, had ruptured, leaking the odorless gas into the town of Satartia.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Molly Hanson
Two years ago, President Joe Biden signed a landmark $391 billion climate solutions investment bill — the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This once-in-a-generation legislation has supercharged the process of replacing our deadly fossil fuel economy with clean energy while investing in critical air monitoring technologies, pollution reduction programs, environmental justice priorities, and efficient permitting processes.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
The grizzly bear stands as an embodiment of wild, untamed nature. Yet they were almost hunted to oblivion. Their comeback story illustrates the power of habitat conservation and federal protections to pull a species back from the brink of extinction — but their story isn’t finished yet. Grizzly bears once occupied much of the American West, with a population estimated at 50,000. Yet a century of hunting and habitat destruction nearly wiped out grizzlies in the lower 48 states.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
Endangered beluga whales and sea otters in Alaska just got a reprieve from fossil fuel development that could have further imperiled them. A federal judge suspended an offshore lease in Cook Inlet, finding that the federal government broke the law when it auctioned off critical marine mammal habitat for oil and gas drilling. On behalf of local environmental groups, Earthjustice had challenged the lease sale in court.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
earthjustice.org | Alison Cagle
When hikers come from near and far to climb Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest peak, it isn’t always for the view. Rising 4,000 feet above a sea of forest, reaching Katahdin’s summit is considered a backpacking milestone. For the Wabanaki Nations of Maine, Mount Katahdin is much more than a hiker’s bragging rights. Chuck Loring Jr., a member of the Penobscot Nation (which is a part of the Wabanaki Confederacy), knew the moment he’d entered a sacred place.