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More than 100,000 Native American archaeological and cultural sites, some dating to 12,000 B.C., are protected in Bears Ears National Monument. (Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
feature April 24, 2025

What You Should Know About the Antiquities Act and National Monuments

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)
feature April 29, 2025

Where the Trump Administration is Going and Where We Stand

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

Agricultural fields surround an elementary school in Salinas, California. (Martin Do Nascimento / Earthjustice)
case April 21, 2025

Protecting Schoolchildren in Monterey County from Toxic Pesticide Exposure

Regulators are failing to protect children from repeat exposure to the most dangerous pesticides

In the News: The Times-Picayune May 2, 2025

Air Products delays $8 billion Ascension plant, looking to find buyer for carbon capture, ammonia portion

Corinne Van Dalen, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “This is great news for all the groups and community members who have been fighting this ill-conceived project from the start.”

In a migration that takes at least four generations to complete, monarch butterflies make their way 2,500 miles across North America from Mexico to Canada. (Lisa Brown / CC BY-NC 2.0)
From the Experts December 17, 2024

The Monarch Has Been Proposed for the Endangered Species List. It Still Needs Better Protections From Pesticides.

Pesticide overuse is driving declines in insect pollinator populations globally posing a threat to human food systems, terrestrial food webs, and global biodiversity.

Press Release December 17, 2024

Fifty Experts and Advocates Urge Maryland to Develop Comprehensive Pesticide Data Program for Public Health and Transparency

Pesticide transparency enables researchers, health professionals, and others to tackle harm to humans, wildlife, and the environment

In a migration that takes at least four generations to complete, monarch butterflies make their way 2,500 miles across North America from Mexico to Canada. (Lisa Brown / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release December 17, 2024

Pollinators Increasingly Disappearing from Pesticide Overuse and Lax Oversight

Following proposed monarch listing, Earthjustice and Xerces petition EPA to upgrade risk assessment data for pesticides

Earthjustice attorneys argued on behalf of community organizations in the archipelago that FERC had allowed New Fortress Energy, through its Puerto Rico subsidiary NFEnergía, to install and operate the pipeline without the legally required environmental and statutory review. (Matt Roth for Earthjustice)
Press Release April 1, 2025

Court of Appeals Must Undo Orders that Allowed the Unlawful Expansion of Methane Gas Infrastructure in Puerto Rico, Groups Argue

FERC unlawfully allowed methane gas company NFEnergía to expand its terminal infrastructure in the San Juan Bay without consulting local communities and without the required review

feature April 9, 2024

What You Need To Know About Chlorpyrifos

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment. There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos.

Press Release January 27, 2025

Governor Green Faces Lawsuit Challenging Water Commission Appointment

Process for nominating interim commissioner in the loea seat draws legal fire and community backlash

Coral reef colonies at Howland Island NWR in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. (J. Maragos / USFWS)
Press Release April 17, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Trump Administration Executive Order to Open Pacific Marine Monument to Commercial Fishing

This order threatens indigenous cultural heritage and critical species’ habitat within and around the monument

(James Olstein for Earthjustice)
feature March 28, 2025

Right To Zero: Building a Zero-emissions Future

We’re creating a zero-emissions reality from coast to coast.

Organophosphates are acutely toxic and associated with neurodevelopmental harms in children
(Austin Valley / CC BY 2.0)
Press Release September 20, 2023

Voices Across the U.S. Demand Ban on Brain-Harming Pesticide by Any Means Necessary

Advocates praise bill introduction in Congress and urge EPA for a full ban

In the News: The New York Times March 27, 2025

E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email

Jim Pew, Director of Federal Clean Air Practice, Earthjustice: “It’s hard to imagine how these exemptions could be lawful.”

feature August 4, 2021

Organophosphate Pesticides in the United States

Find out what foods have high residues of these pesticide, where they are used, and how we are exposed.

One of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa canoes at the "Pipe Out Paddle Up: Floatilla Against the Line 5 Pipeline" in Mackinaw City, Mich., on Sept. 3, 2022. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
video April 13, 2025

Last Chance to Stop Line 5 Oil Tunnel

The Line 5 oil pipeline is putting at risk the Great Lakes — the world’s largest surface freshwater system. The State of Michigan can still stop the construction.

In the News: The New York Times March 25, 2025

‘It Is Hard to Imagine a More Sweeping Agenda to Make Americans Less Healthy’

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “The most important thing to understand is that we are seeing a wholesale approach to eradicating environmental protections. This is the hatchet not the scalpel. So it’s everything from the water you drink and the air you breathe, to the food you eat and the basic products you buy. If…

Children often experience greater exposure to chlorpyrifos because they eat more fruit for their weight relative to adults. (Annette Dubois / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release December 2, 2024

EPA Proposes Limited Ban on Chlorpyrifos Pesticide

Proposed rule allows continued use of neurotoxic pesticide on 11 crops, despite links to irreversible harm in children