Falls short on climate; restores critical funding for water infrastructure

Biden administration falls short of fully restoring ESA

Applied Energy Services continúa contaminando el aire, el suelo y el agua en Puerto Rico con cenizas de carbón tóxicas.

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, and Wildlife, Oceans: “There’s a climate crisis and there’s also a biodiversity crisis. I think a lot of people think the climate crisis is the main driver of the biodiversity crisis — that’s not true. It’s habitat destruction.”

Assembly kills NY HEAT Act in final budget deal, the leading policy to address energy affordability and climate change

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

Judge finds EPA and USFWS failed to comply with Endangered Species Act

Debbie Chizewer, Managing Attorney, Midwest Office: “The courts passed the mic to the U.S., and the U.S. handed the mic right back to the courts.”

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “In law, you always act in partnership with the clients you’re working with. With William, it was really a question of following his lead. Following the tribe’s lead. He taught us the value of respecting the leadership of people who have been the fiercest advocates and a moral…

New legislation would weaken the ESA while gutting species conservation programs

Ruling will mean a free-flowing Puyallup River for fish for the first time in more than 100 years

Electron Dam has been harming Chinook salmon, steelhead, and trout for nearly 100 years. With part of the dam gone, the river will flow naturally for the first time in almost a century.

A decades-long fight for four imperiled species — and an entire landscape — is nearly complete.

James Yskamp, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “Ohio has injection laws because we take our neighboring states’ waste, we take on most of Pennsylvania’s waste and a lot of West Virginia’s.”

Here’s how we’re using the Endangered Species Act as a powerful legal tool to protect imperiled animals.

Mandy DeRoche, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This is nonpartisan data that’s collected from the miners themselves that no one else has. Understanding this data is the first step to understanding what we can do next.”

Alexandra Schluntz, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “The Bureau of Land Management can’t just say, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll fix it at a later stage.’ Not when there’s evidence in the record that shows they haven’t been fixing it.”

The ruling halts two massive development projects that would have disturbed the last remaining habitat of the critically endangered Florida panther.