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Many environmental problems are best addressed through nationwide laws, regulations, and programs, so that most pollution-limiting efforts are more or less consistent. The same goes for the protection of wildlife and the management of public lands and resources. The Environmental Protection Agency issues scores of rules and regulations to guide activities nationwide. It often falls to outside organizations such as Earthjustice to enforce them.
Don Harris, a cofounder of Earthjustice and member of the board of trustees, tells the story of how it all started, in a lawsuit that opened up the legal system to environmental organizations and sparked the creation of the organization that would become Earthjustice.
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Feds stop funding rural dirty coal plants for two years
Legislation seeks to protect America's largest intact temperate rainforest, sustainable economies dependent on it, and even save taxpayers money.
An industry attempt to overturn tough ozone regulations is rejected by the DC Court of Appeals.
A federal judge rules that an attempt to classify some incinerators as boilers is illegal.
The high court says that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and that EPA has authority to regulate tailpipe emissions.
An attempt by the Bush administration to remove wildlife protection and exclude the public from forest-management decisions is rejected.
Brick and clay manufacturers produce some of the worst air pollution in our nation. Now the EPA must follow the law and make this industry clean up its act.
Pesticide lobby sought to ignore effects of pesticides on endangered species
Environmental justice advocates won an important victory when the Hastings amendment was adopted into the House Interior and EPA appropriations bill.
Vote will block funds for policy of disowning certain waters.
Agreement with EPA ends years of agency delay in guarding against deadly parasites and bacteria
Decision ensures dirty power plants and other facilities must update old equipment with cleaner technologies
Federal court decision could also lead to stronger protections against air pollution from power plants nationwide
Another sneak-attack on the 2006 Budget Reconciliation Bill thwarted; this one to prevent public scrutiny of oil shale development.
Attempt to hijack the Defense Appropriations Bill fails
A sneaky effort to allow private companies to mine on public lands without paying a royalty to the taxpayer fails to make it into the 2006 Budget Reconciliation Bill.
DC District Court rejects industry's challenge to a rule requiring permits for discharge into wetlands and streams.
EPA forced to rewrite air pollution standards for small municipal waste combustors.
Earthjustice forces EPA to end 13-year delay in raising clean air standards above nation's most prized national parks.
Army Corps of Engineers nationwide permits protected by federal court.
The Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, has suspended a controversial EPA plan to weaken rules that apply to old power plants, refineries, and other facilities.
Settles lawsuit with environmental and public health groups. Standards five years overdue.
A federal court of appeals in San Francisco on December 12 overturned an injunction that had blocked a presidential order to stop building roads in national forest roadless areas.
Rules they're entitled to protection from neurotoxic pesticides under the law
In a major victory for clean air and public health, the Supreme Court rejected industry attacks on strengthened air quality standards for soot and smog.
Don Harris, one of Earthjustice's founders, tells the story of how it all started, in a lawsuit that opened up the legal system to environmental organizations and sparked the creation of the organization that would become Earthjustice.
