Congress Votes In Favor Of Bad Air
Congress' anti-environment vote would kill two clean air standards—and thousands of people they were designed to protect.  Read More

EPA Sued Over Ozone Standard Retreat
The EPA's shocking retreat from strong ozone standards has resulted in legal action by Earthjustice.  Read More

The Woes Of Waterways
Earthjustice attorneys face strikingly different issues as they attempt to restore America's polluted waterways, and that means using different approaches:

Urban runoff and sewage discharge plague the once pristine Anacostia River in the District of Columbia. Read Feature | Photo Slideshow

But the major problem in Florida, as attorney David Guest explains in this video, is unregulated runoff from agricultural operations.  Watch Video

Rare Kaua`i Birds Under Court Wing
Every once in a while the good guys win. Earthjustice has been pushing for years to protect rare seabirds that call the Hawaiian island of Kaua`i their home. Powerful night lights around resorts and playing fields coupled with dangerously strung overhead electrical wires have hurt the birds badly. Earthjustice went to court to get these problems fixed and succeeded.  Read

Court Befriends Old Growth Forests
Earthjustice is still cleaning up messes left by the Bush/Cheney administration. One of these was their unscientific plan to open mature and old-growth forests in Oregon to the type of clearcut logging we haven't seen in 20+ years. A court recently recommended the plan be tossed due to legal violations that could harm native species.  Read

Europe Unites Against Air Pollutants
Europe is getting serious about greenhouse gas pollution. They are requiring that all aircraft flying into and out of the European Union to reduce their carbon emissions. The airline industry doesn't like the EU law, but Earthjustice is supporting the Europeans on this one and we recently got a favorable ruling.  Read More

High Court Rejects Bid By Housing Developers
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with clean air advocates, represented by Earthjustice, regarding development in California's San Joaquin Valley—which suffers some of the worst air pollution in the nation. The issue is over stiff rules enacted by local authorities that, among other things, requires big developers to account for the added air pollution all those new houses far from mass transit and city centers. The National Homebuilders Association fought against it all the way to the high court—where it lost.  Read

Army Caught Short In Hawai`i
The Army was caught taking a shortcut after being ordered by a court to study an area offshore of one of its Hawaiian bases to make sure its activities haven't poisoned the fish and seaweed eaten by local people. Earthjustice is representing a local Hawaiian group in this issue.  Read More

A Clean Win For Everglades
There is some good news in the long-running struggle to de-pollute Florida waterways. Earthjustice has won a federal court ruling to have the state set more protective limits on the amount of phosphorus entering Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.  Read More

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Photo Credits - Rare Kaua`i Birds Under Court Wing: The Newell's Shearwater population on Kaua'i, where the bulk of the species is found, declined by 75% from 1993 to 2008. (FWS) Anacostia Water Woes: The Anacostia River was the pride of the District of Columbia. But today, it's been described as one of the dirtiest rivers in America. (Raviya Ismail / Earthjustice) Florida Water Woes: Toxic algae outbreak on southwest Florida's Caloosahatchee River in June and July 2011. Photo taken at Franklin Lock. (Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation)

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