Letter comes on eve of the 14th anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill

Earthjustice is in court challenging a Trump-era allowance that says drillers can kill thousands of turtles a year and harm many more.

Unprecedented oil exports are clearly not in the public interest

We’re fighting to protect the Gulf’s imperiled species as oil and gas corporations run freighters through precious habitat, drill deeper, and blast along the Gulf floor.

Ocean ecosystems are essential to our world, and thankfully, we can still chart a new path forward to protect them.

Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “This is the most right-wing court we’ve seen in almost a century, and that’s emboldening conservative legal activists to swing for the fences with legal claims that would have been laughable just a few years ago. The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.”

Andrea Treece, Attorney, Oceans Program: “We leave too much gear on the water too late in the season; we wait until the risk is elevated. Too often, it’s too late to protect those whales. And so we need to really learn our lesson from the past.”

Groups aim to defend against industry efforts to maximize offshore drilling in public waters

Conservation groups demand action to stop harm to seabirds from power lines and streetlights

Earthjustice’s work is supported and guided by our Board of Trustees.

Officials must assess fishing effects on dwindling Pacific species

Government must require turtle excluder devices on all shrimp boats

But the administration must act now.

Settlement agreement pauses oil and gas leasing in whale habitat and slows vessel traffic for Gulf of Mexico whales on brink of extinction while officials re-evaluate protections

Earthjustice is standing alongside a diverse group of nations, conservation organizations, scientists, and Indigenous groups, and urging the ISA to stand strong against corporate mining interests and declare a moratorium on deep seabed mining.

As the oil industry pursues a max-out strategy for fossil fuel development in the Gulf with a new legal challenge, advocates flag serious climate, public health, and environmental concerns

Conservation groups filed a lawsuit to prevent sea turtles from drowning when they get caught in shrimp trawl nets in the Gulf of Mexico and southeast Atlantic. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The suit challenges a Trump administration rule on key protective gear called turtle excluder…

Here’s how Earthjustice is working to protect marine creatures and biodiversity.