Plaintiffs Our Common Wealth 670, PåganWatch, Conservation Council for Hawai‘i, and Center for Biological Diversity hereby complain of the actions of Defendants National Marine Fisheries Service and Secretary of Commerce…
Mahesh Cleveland, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office “About half of them die within the first year of captivity, and in the wild they can live up to 40 years. So it’s really about keeping Hawaii’s fish on Hawaii’s reef for Hawaii’s people.”
Mahesh Cleveland, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office: “This decision recognizes the will of Hawaiʻi’s people. Again and again, communities have turned out at public meetings to oppose this trade.”
Plaintiffs Fa‘asao Amerika Samoa and Conservation Council for Hawai‘i hereby complain of the actions of Defendants National Marine Fisheries Service and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. The United States has…
Elena Bryant, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office: "This isn’t just putting the cart before the horse — it’s sending the cart off a cliff and hoping the horse somehow catches up."
Pelika Andrade has spent nearly 20 years protecting Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Trump’s plan to allow commercial fishing there could undo it all.
David Henkin, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office: “We’re planning to take the administration to court and sue them. The proclamation itself is unconstitutional, illegal, and any efforts to implement the proclamation and give the green light to commercial fishing would be likewise illegal.”
Challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's promulgation of the “Critical Habitat Exclusion Rule” — a new rule that unlawfully provides industry special interests with an effective veto over important…
Isaac Moriwake, Managing Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office: “At HECO’s request, EPA jumped all over this chance to trash the law, pollute the environment, and keep Hawaii consumers stuck paying the skyrocketing bills for imported fossil fuels.”
Earthjustice filed its merits brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court in Department of the Air Force v. Prutehi Guåhan, a case about whether the U.S. military can destroy its…
