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Approximately one third of all the land in the U.S. is managed by the federal government, theoretically for the use and benefit of all the public. Too often, however, it is managed for the benefit of private interests, which have little if any concern for the public or for the future, causing pollution, erosion, and other problems.
In the mid-1980s, the Army gave the Postal Service permission to build a large new postoffice on land that was about to become a national park. Buck Parker, executive director of Earthjustice, explains what happened next.
Read about the struggle for San Francisco's Crissy Field
A judge refused to let timber harvesting occur on Kuiu Island, a Native subsistence area of the Tongass National Forest because the U.S. Forest Service used misleading market information when issuing a permit.
Ruling protects wilderness qualities and rare plants from harmful drilling
You don't own parts of our national parks just because you say so.
Alaskan lake and surrounding area gets protection from drilling.
Legislation seeks to protect America's largest intact temperate rainforest, sustainable economies dependent on it, and even save taxpayers money.
Another sneak-attack on the 2006 Budget Reconciliation Bill thwarted; this one to prevent public scrutiny of oil shale development.
Earthjustice successfully defends authority of the president to create national monuments in lawsuit brought by anti-environmental groups.
Attempt to hijack the Defense Appropriations Bill fails
A sneaky effort to allow private companies to mine on public lands without paying a royalty to the taxpayer fails to make it into the 2006 Budget Reconciliation Bill.
Grazing reductions on National Monument defended
Future oil and gas development strategies will go through environmental impact analysis
Judge Downes determines Army Corps' CBM wastewater storage permit is illegal.
A federal judge rules that conservation requires "recovery," not just "survival"
Following vociferous public outcry and a threatened lawsuit by Earthjustice, the Forest Service does the right thing
A March 2004 settlement requires the military to stop conducting prescribed burns at Makua Military Reservation and to complete their consultation with the USFWS in an effort to protect native Hawaiian cultural sites and endangered plants and animals.
Earthjustice helps protect valuable and fragile ecosystems from the noise and noxious emissions of snowmobiles.
Ninth Circuit denies challenge to Forest Service decision that protects endangered chinook salmon and steelhead trout.
Earthjustice teamed with Alaskan Native groups and a political party to succesfully challenge a new Alaska state law that inhibited public access to courts.
The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness is kept road-free with help from Earthjustice
Earthjustice forces EPA to end 13-year delay in raising clean air standards above nation's most prized national parks.
Snowmobile use restricted in Yellowstone as damaging to park life and visitors.
Judge Slams FAA for Failure to Conduct Thorough Study; A Second Case Proceeds in State Court
A federal court of appeals in San Francisco on December 12 overturned an injunction that had blocked a presidential order to stop building roads in national forest roadless areas.
In a major victory for the last remnant of America's wild bison herds, a federal judge in Washington, DC, has banned cattle grazing on national forest land next to Yellowstone National Park.
Court rules Forest Service cannot continue to approve timber sales in roadless areas while simultaneously considering the very same areas for wilderness protection.
Will protect against habitat degradation and excessive interference with other uses of public lands.
The national monument established by President Clinton to protect the last pockets of unprotected giant sequoias on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada has withstood a challenge.
Under court order, in 2003, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made final designations of more than 400,000 acres of critical habitat for scores of species of endangered and threatened plants native to Hawai`i.
The wild, remote, rugged, and beautiful Kaiparowits Plateau in southern Utah was slated to become an industrial zone with coal mine and power plant. Instead it is now a national monument.
It looked as if nothing could stop a Canadian mining company from reopening an abandoned gold mine adjacent to Yellowstone National Park, threatening three major watersheds with acid-laced pollution. But Earthjustice had a better idea. Staff attorney Doug Honnold explains.
In the mid-1980s, the Army gave the Postal Service permission to build a large new postoffice on land that was about to become a national park. Buck Parker, executive director of Earthjustice, explains what happened next.
Don Harris, one of Earthjustice's founders, tells the story of how it all started, in a lawsuit that opened up the legal system to environmental organizations and sparked the creation of the organization that would become Earthjustice.
