Earthjustice, on behalf of Ironbound Community Corporation, sued the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission for approving a fourth gas power plant in Newark, despite strong community opposition. The plant would be built next to the Ironbound neighborhood, which is already crowded with smokestacks, diesel trucks, and power plants.
Whatโs happening: BP, the company behind the worst oil spill in U.S. history, is asking the Trump administration to allow it to drill a new, ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. Why it matters: BPโs Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 killed 11 people and released 4.9 million barrels of oil that blanketed the Gulfโฆ
Air Products is in pursuit of an Army Corpsโ Clean Water Act 404 permit and a Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resourcesโ Coastal Use Permit (CUP) that would allow for the construction of a carbon sequestration facility.