The Vermont Secretary of Natural Resources’ deficient implementation of the state’s climate law is thwarting our collective opportunity to act urgently.
Conservation Law Foundation on Monday refiled its Clean Water Act lawsuit against the Town of Barnstable, where the town’s sewage treatment plant is polluting waters with nitrogen, leading to toxic algae outbreaks that destroy habitats and sicken people and pets.
Conservation Law Foundation, Sierra Club, and Maine Youth Action are keeping up their fight to ensure Maine cuts carbon pollution as required by the law. The groups on Thursday filed their response to Maine’s motion to dismiss their April lawsuit.
The Healthy Enterprise Fund is envisioned to be a $20 million revolving loan fund that supports green economy businesses and health-promoting enterprises providing services and creating quality jobs in under-resourced communities across New England.
Expanding Juniper Ridge Landfill would be a band-aid approach to waste and materials management and does not address the failures of the current system.
During public hearings, CLF argued the legal reasons why the proposed asphalt plant should be denied and when Newport appealed its rejection in court, CLF moved to continue fighting against the plant.
Conservation groups are pushing for long-delayed federal action to finalize expanded vessel strike protections for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned 40 years of precedent and practice comprising the “Chevron doctrine,” under which federal courts defer to an agency’s interpretation of ambiguous legal terms when Congress has given that agency authority to implement the law.
Maine has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Conservation Law Foundation, Maine Youth Action, and Sierra Club that would force the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to cut carbon emissions as required by the law.
This situation underscores the urgent need for an Environmental Justice Act in Rhode Island to ensure that marginalized communities have equitable access to green spaces and are protected from environmentally harmful decisions.
