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Gavin Kearney, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Companies were free to store coal ash anywhere they wanted to, and oftentimes that just meant digging a hole in the ground and dumping it in.”

Debbie Chizewer, Managing Attorney, Midwest Office: “This case is really about Michigan’s ability to protect the Great Lakes from an outdated Canadian oil pipeline that’s threatening to rupture.”

Patti Goldman, Attorney, Northwest Office: “When people use pesticides in their fields or on their lawns, they don’t expect to get cancer. Yet this happens, and when it does, state court lawsuits provide the only real path to accountability.”

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “We will see this administration in court, to ensure that our government does its job to protect us.”

An opinion piece by Abigail Dillen (President of Earthjustice), Amanda Leland (Executive Director of Environmental Defense Fund), Manish Bapna (President and CEO of NRDC), and Loren Blackford (Executive Director of the Sierra Club).

Christie Hicks, Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Taxpayers will be paying for this twice — in increased costs for electricity for the Department of Defense and the bailouts to keep those crumbling coal power plants running.”

Daniel Savery, Legislative Representative, Policy & Legislation: “Industry has said it has a ‘historic opportunity’ to revise TSCA, or gut it, as we believe it to be. It’ll be interesting to see what shade of lipstick they’re going to put on this pig to sell it to their constituents, who are rightly concerned about the…

Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office: “The fact is that just as the district court found, this facility required federal environmental review from the beginning because it’s an ICE detention center. No delay in disbursing federal funds affects that reality.”

Thom Cmar, Deputing Managing Attorney, Midwest Regional Office: “The health benefits of fewer incidences of cancer, cardiovascular disease, less exposure to children of harmful levels of lead — those benefits far exceed the costs to the industry.”

Michael Hiatt, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “Propping up uneconomic coal plants, propping up the coal industry — while simultaneously taking efforts to stymie wind development, solar development — that’s going to impair grid reliability.”

Megan Kemp, Colorado Policy Advocate, Rocky Mountain Office: “I am shocked to see such generous tax exemptions being offered to corporations that very well should be made to be pay their way.”

Michelle Ghafar, Attorney, California Regional Office: “They didn’t look at any of that new information or change of circumstances and analyze how any of that could change the impact that they identified.”

Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, Staff Scientist, Fossil Fuels Program: “What this report shows is that the pipeline would put these kids and teachers in harm’s way. There would be a very large cloud of CO2 that would cover the area, the houses, the school very quickly — within like 10 minutes.”

Susan Stevens Miller, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “If Meta ends the lease after four years almost none of the costs of the generating station or the associated transmission will have been paid up by Meta at that point.”

Sam Sankar, SVP of Programs: “The first Trump administration saw oil companies as its ‘partners.’ The second Trump administration treats them as its ‘customers.’”

James Yskamp, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “The law is very clear in our view that [the department] should be applying the rules in place at the time of permitting.”

Thom Cmar, Deputing Managing Attorney, Midwest Regional Office: “It’ll cost all of us in the long run because it will encourage more expensive, dirty coal plants to continue operating for longer and it will mean more arsenic, mercury and lead in our waterways.”

Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation for Healthy Communities: “EPA uses the idea of ‘uncertainty’ here to justify its decision not to provide any monetized benefits of reducing pollution. But the result of this decision is effectively to assign a benefit of zero dollars to reducing these pollutants.”