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Earthjustice, on behalf of Healthy Gulf (formerly Gulf Restoration Network), moved to intervene in a lawsuit to defend the U.S. Coast Guard’s actions to contain the ongoing Taylor Energy oil spill against Taylor’s lawsuit trying to block U.S. Coast Guard-led spill control efforts. The spill from the Taylor Energy platform has been dumping thousands of gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico for more than 14 years. This is the longest oil spill in U.S. history.

Youth attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.

Environmental groups sued the Trump administration to challenge an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico that will open up more than 78 million acres to offshore drilling without fully analyzing the risks to people, wildlife or the environment.

Seven Sámi reindeer herding cooperatives have given official statements to oppose the planned industrial railway line that would cut through their herding areas in the Great Northern Forest in Finland. They demand that the project should be abandoned and taken out from the regional land use plan.

Air pollution will take an estimated seven million lives globally in the next year, while costing the world’s economy nearly 225 billion USD. The latest data compiled in the IQAir AirVisual 2018 World Air Quality Report and interactive World’s most polluted cities ranking, prepared in collaboration with Greenpeace Southeast Asia, reveals the state of particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution in 2018. It highlights a widespread but unequal distribution of PM2.5 pollution and limited access to public information.

A healthy environment is essential for the long-term viability of the sporting industry, as well as for the athletes and communities who invest in it,” says IUCN Director General Inger Andersen, the incoming Executive Director of UN Environment. “It is in everyone’s interest to ensure new sports facilities minimise their impacts on biodiversity and safeguard healthy outdoor areas for future generations.”

The Trump administration released its FY 2020 budget proposal, a document littered with giveaways to the super-wealthy and big polluter interests.

Forty Greenpeace Argentina activists are currently blocking the entrance to a toxic waste facility in Patagonia, with banners bearing the messages “Stop Fracking Patagonia” in Spanish and English, calling for an end to the oil age.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on March 7, announced a settlement with ExxonMobil Oil Corporation (ExxonMobil) to resolve federal Clean Air Act claims arising from a 2013 fire at the company’s oil refinery in Beaumont, Texas that killed two employees and injured ten others.

Nestlé and Unilever are responsible for a quarter of the branded throwaway plastic driving the plastic pollution crisis in the Philippines, according to a report published by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), on March 7.