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.”

Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “Polluting industries always challenge pollution regulations because it costs them money to protect our health. We’re hoping that a few members of the court’s right-wing supermajority will remember that they shouldn’t be second-guessing sound judgments about what’s best for our kids’ lungs.”

George Torgun, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “There’s nothing in the IRA that required it to be so large. If it goes forward as planned, it’s double the size of Willow. It’s going to lock in fossil fuel development in the Gulf for the next 50 years.”

The administration identified 21 federal programs that will pilot the initial Justice40 implementation

Platform co-authors highlight environmental justice gains made this year by the Biden-Harris administration and by Congress, while also listing urgent needs still to be addressed in federal action on recovery, jobs, climate and infrastructure legislation

A new report documents how people have been left in harm’s way, as the Trump administration attempts to block the Chemical Disaster Rule.

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “The oil industry is trying to put pressure and make it sound like it’s a dire situation with the gas prices, and leasing would fix this situation when it just wouldn’t.”

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Coal Program, Earthjustice: “Enforcement of the rule’s provisions is desperately needed, as coal plants have demonstrated they don’t care about polluting water or putting people’s health at risk, and they have taken full advantage of the Trump EPA’s hands-off policy. The result is nationwide pollution of water at coal plants.”

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “The sale is going to lock in [oil and gas] production for years to come. By that time, we need to be moving away from fossil fuels in order to survive. This lease sale is a really critical juncture and is sending us in the exact opposite direction.”

Environmental justice advocate and former 50 States Ambassador, Vernice Miller-Travis, discusses why the fractured nature of green groups and the environmental justice movement undermines our overall political effectiveness.

EPA responds to 100+ groups’ petition

Climate change destroying pika habitat

New report exposes risk posed by mismanagement of large-scale fleet, proposes solutions

Industrial waste would be dumped in unlined pit near river

Charging that Pacific Lumber Company is illegally dumping pollution and violating the Clean Water Act, Earthjustice filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court to challenge logging operations in one of the most imperiled watersheds on California’s North Coast.