Environment

Earthjustice Calls Out Trump Administration On Attempt To Delay Clean Air For National Parks

On August 18, Earthjustice said it would fight a Trump Administration attempt to stall adoption of standards to clean up air pollution in national parks and wilderness areas caused by power plants in Texas.

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Conservation Groups Oppose Trump's Push For New Offshore Oil Drilling

President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior is moving ahead with plans to scrap a five-year leasing plan adopted by the Obama administration in January that keeps sensitive Arctic and Atlantic ocean territories off-limits to oil drilling rigs...

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Peaceful protest against Arctic drilling unlawfully ended by Norwegian authorities

Norwegian authorities have arrested the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, following a peaceful protest in the Barents Sea. The authorities unlawfully ended the activists’ peaceful protest against drilling in the Arctic with seizure of the ship and...

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California Independent System Operator Determines Puente Gas Plant On California Coast Is Not Needed

Puente is a proposed 262 megawatt (MW) natural gas power plant on the coast in Oxnard that has long been opposed by environmental justice and environmental groups as well as the City of Oxnard due to its exacerbation of environmental injustice,...

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