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Carolleisacarolleisa
2025-04-28

“Now, there’s a woman on my block
She just sits there facing the hill
She say who going to take away his license to kill?”


youtube.com/watch?v=HRrlFYg2Qk

Karen E. Lund 💙💛Karen5Lund
2025-03-28

TAKE ACTION: Polluting industries are trying to silence communities
The Trump Administration is gutting one of our nation’s most important environmental laws for the benefit of polluting industries. Our communities will pay the price.

earthjustice.org/action/pollut

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2025-02-25

Farmers and environmental groups have sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture after the agency removed from its website numerous online tools, data sets and services related to climate change.

Wes Gillingham is a New York farmer and board president of the "Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York",
which is one of the groups suing the USDA for what the lawsuit calls an "unlawful purge" of climate information.

Gillingham told Newsweek that many farmers rely on the USDA site for information on climate-smart farming practices and technical assistance for grants and loans designed to help farmers adapt to climate impacts such as drought, floods and changes in growing seasons.

The nonprofit environmental group Earthjustice filed a suit Monday on behalf of the organic farming association and two environmental organizations, the Environmental Working Group and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
#Earthjustice associate attorney Jeffrey Stein said that following an executive order by President Donald Trump reversing climate policies, the USDA began removing climate-related interactive tools, data sets, guides and policy statements.
"[The] USDA took them down without any public notice or explanation, in violation of multiple federal laws,"
Stein told Newsweek. Stein said applicable laws include the federal
Freedom of Information Act,
the Administrative Procedure Act
and the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Those laws require public disclosure of many records and policy statements
and include provisions for public notice before making major revisions to agency websites, Stein said
newsweek.com/farmers-sue-agric

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2025-02-25

Earthjustice just filed the first environmental lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Friend,
#Earthjustice is suing to restore protections to millions of acres of irreplaceable public waters that President Trump is illegally attempting to open for offshore drilling.

The ocean protections cover areas along each United States coastline that are currently undeveloped and where 40% of Americans reside.

Trump tried this during his first administration, too.
-- We sued and stopped him then.

Now, standing with our partners, we’ll see Trump in court once again.

Earthjustice is the nation’s premier environmental legal nonprofit, and we rely on your donations to fund our work.

Please donate today to support this lawsuit and the many that will follow it:

ejus.tc/4bcdO3B

About Earthjustice:

- Earthjustice is the nation’s largest nonprofit environmental law organization

- We sued the first Trump administration over 200 times, winning 85% of decisions.

- We represent our clients free of charge

Make a gift today, and help give our planet a fighting chance for tomorrow.

DONATE: ejus.tc/4bcdO3B

Thank you,

Earthjustice

petersuberpetersuber@fediscience.org
2025-02-24

Update. "Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites"
nytimes.com/2025/02/24/climate

"Organic farmers and environmental groups sued the Agriculture Department on Monday over its scrubbing of references to #climate change from its website…That included websites containing data sets, interactive tools and funding information that farmers and researchers relied on for planning and adaptation projects, according to the lawsuit…Peter Lehner, a lawyer for #Earthjustice, said the pages being purged were crucial for farmers facing risks linked to climate change, including heat waves, droughts, floods, extreme weather and wildfires."

#Agriculture #Censorship #DefendResearch #Litigation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2025-02-08

Help stop the buildout of harmful carbon capture and storage projects -
earthjustice.org/action/help-s

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2025-02-08

Stop this unnecessary land swap and road from being built through an Alaska Wildlife Refuge -
earthjustice.org/action/stop-t

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2025-02-08

We refuse to let polluters and their allies define our futures -
earthjustice.org/action/we-ref

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2025-02-04

Keep this toxic pesticide out of our food -
earthjustice.org/action/keep-t

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2024-12-30

Make sure taxpayer-funded hydrogen hubs actually benefit communities and the climate -
earthjustice.org/action/make-s

Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!old_hippie@veganism.social
2024-11-10

@joe8Zeta7 #Earthjustice needs funding. Please give what you can.

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2024-11-02

Protect Indigenous territory from Canada’s gold mines -
earthjustice.org/action/protec

DoomsdaysCWDoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
2024-10-19

Ha'Kamwe' Background information from #SacredLand. #NoLithiumMining! #ProtectHaKamwe!

"Ha’Kamwe’ is a naturally occurring hot spring in the #BigSandyRiver basin where the #Mojave and #Sonoran deserts meet in what is now known as #Arizona. Ha’Kamwe’ is a sacred healing place for the Hualapai Tribe. This important cultural and ecological site is threatened by a proposed #LithiumMine, as a subsidiary of the Australian company Hawkstone Mining Ltd. seeks permission to explore and drill on three sides of the spring, which would destroy cultural sites and block access to the oasis for desert #wildlife. Visiting the site with a reporter from the Phoenix New Times, Hualapai Tribe Director of Natural Resources, Richard Powskey, said, 'This spring is a place for healing and medicine and other things that they have here. Our people are buried all through here. There’s a grave just on the other side of this hill right here.'"

[...]

"At a Wikieup community information session in 2021 many of the 100 attendees were concerned that the proposed mine would drain too much water from this already drought-prone area. Caretaker Ivan Bender feels that the waterflow of the well that feeds Ha’Kamwe’ has already decreased due to the company’s drilling. There is a dispute between the company, the Tribe, and local ranchers regarding how shallow the water table is, with those who live in the area concerned that drilling could easily puncture the #aquifer.

"In the early 2000s a power plant was proposed in the area and though it was never built the Environmental Impact Statement for that project found 'the discharge from Cofer Hot Spring would be reduced, and possibly cease, as a result of groundwater withdrawal from the volcanic aquifer.'

"The #HulapaiTribe is concerned the proposed lithium exploration activity would deplete the spring as well.

"In April of 2021 the #Hualapai Tribe passed a resolution against the mine. 'The Hualapai Tribal Council strongly objects to any further permitting of surface or subsurface disturbances within the #SandyValley Lithium mining claim area, which will result in devastating impacts to significant cultural and spiritual resources; will threaten long-term tribal water rights and quality; will cause irreparable harm to the Tribe’s ability to continue cultural activities and to pursue economic development of Cholla Canyon Ranch, and will result in long term ecological destruction of a fragile desert environment, including plant and animal species with cultural significance. Further, should an open pit mine ever be permitted, it would create enormous public health issues caused by pollution, dust, noise, and overall safety concerns caused by having such a mine immediately adjacent to Hualapai land, as well as severe visual impacts.'

"The Inter-Tribal Association of Arizona, an association of 21 tribal governments in Arizona, which provides a forum for tribal governments to advocate for national and regional tribal concerns and to join in united action to address issues, passed a similar resolution.

"The Hualapai Tribe is demanding that the BLM develop a full Environmental Impact Statement as required by the National Environmental Policy Act. This would require a thorough examination of issues protected by the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. The Tribe asserts that these concerns were not adequately addressed in the published Environmental Assessment: “The BLM’s position as indicated in the EA implies that academically-based western science approaches to research take precedence over traditional #Indigenous knowledge. This position is unacceptable and is not in keeping with the requirement to make a good faith effort to identify cultural resources.'

"In January 2023, #Earthjustice collected and submitted 31,671 letters demanding the BLM conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement.

What You Can Do

"Sign up to support The Campaign to Protect Ha’Kamwe’ and follow the issue."

Learn more:
sacredland.org/hakamwe/

#HulapaiNation #WaterIsLife #DefendTheSacred #NoLithiumMining #HawkstoneMining #ArizonaLithium #WikieupArizona #ProtectTheSacred #NavajoTransitionalEnergyCompany

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2024-10-08

Urge the Environmental Protection Agency to authorize this crucial clean air rule today -
earthjustice.org/action/urge-t

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2024-10-08

Pipelines transporting carbon dioxide are dangerously under-regulated -
earthjustice.org/action/pipeli

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2024-10-08

Protect Indigenous territory from Canada’s gold mines -
earthjustice.org/action/protec

Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!old_hippie@veganism.social
2024-09-25

Why We're in Court to Protect the #GreatSaltLake - #Earthjustice
#legal #environment

earthjustice.org/article/savin

Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏bikemonterey@sfba.social
2024-09-25

We celebrate the 9/25/24 signing of California #AB3233, as well as #AB1866 and #AB2716, by CA Governor Newsom. “It was #Chevron that sued #Monterey County and a voter initiative,” as the Governor stated at 22:07 in the signing ceremony. youtube.com/live/J2sAAls_Ljc?s

Full ceremony, including intro by #Physicians for #SocialResponsibility: youtube.com/live/J2sAAls_Ljc?s Thanks to the Governor, and to the Center for #Biological #Diversity, Protect Monterey County, and others in the broad coalition, e.g., bikemonterey.org/californias-l, who stood up to the #oil and #gas industry to accomplish this win for people and planet.

#BigOil #PublicHealth #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateAction #FossilFuels #PowerToThePeople #MontereyCounty #ProtectMontereyCounty #CarbonEmissions #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #EarthJustice #EarthStewardship #CreationCare

Shingo Mouse 🌳ShingoMouse
2024-09-01

Urge the EPA to designate vinyl chloride as a high-priority chemical -
earthjustice.org/action/urge-t

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2024-08-23

Federal judge rolls back key #civil #rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘#sacrifice #zones’

The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit

James Cain, a federal judge in Louisiana who was appointed by president Trump,
decided to
block the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice from pursuing enforcement actions based on
“#disparate #impacts”
— or the idea that a 🔸regulation might disproportionately harm one group of people over another. 🔸

A provision of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as #TitleVI allows federal agencies to take action against state policies and programs that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

Since the EPA’s founding in 1970, however, the agency allowed most of the Title VI complaints that it received to languish without resolution.

In 2015, a coalition of community groups in Louisiana,
with the assistance of the public-interest environmental law organization #Earthjustice,
sued the agency for this practice and won.

Five years later, after president Biden took office,
✅federal regulators finally began addressing the civil rights complaints they received and
✅the EPA announced a civil-rights #probe into #Cancer #Alley
— a stretch of land on the lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans where
💥over 150 chemical plants pump cancer-causing chemicals into the air of predominantly Black communities💥
— marking 💪🏽a new phase of the agency’s use of Title VI.

The federal government was making significant progress with Louisiana officials in their Title VI negotiations:

Cancer Alley residents’ principle demand
— that state regulators assess whether a community is already exposed to disproportionately high levels of pollution before permitting a new project there
— had made it into a draft resolution document.

❗️But at a certain point in the process, sources told Grist, the talks broke down.

⚠️Then in May 2023, #Jeff #Landry, then the attorney general (and now the #governor) of Louisiana,
filed a lawsuit against the EPA.

On the basis that the agency was overstepping its authority, 💥Landry’s suit challenged not only the EPA’s use of Title VI to regulate pollution in Louisiana,
but 💥also the very legal justification of "#disparate-#impacts" regulation, 👉which reaches thousands of programs across the country
👉and can be used to adjudicate decisions as varied as where a new highway can go or whether a housing practice is discriminatory.

🆘Advocates worried that the lawsuit had the potential to unravel decades of civil rights law.

Judge Cain’s final judgment concurs with Landry’s argument.

🔥In effect, the ruling will make it impossible for the EPA to pursue enforcement actions based on disparate impacts
— but only in Louisiana.

Cain’s judgment comes in the same week as ❗️the EPA’s new Title VI guidance,
which urges state and local regulators to establish safeguards that protect their constituents against discrimination.
grist.org/equity/title-vi-epa-

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