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Trump Official Working to Steer California’s Water to a Greedy Few

The Supreme Court upheld protections for a tiny fish, preserving an important tenet of the Endangered Species Act. Now the Trump administration wants to undo that victory.

Insects Are Disappearing at an Alarming Rate. Here’s What We’re Doing.

A honey bee alights on a cherry blossom in Stockton, California. Bees and other insects face a global extinction crisis.

Earthjustice is fighting to stop the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which are wiping out beneficial insects and threatening the health of our planet.

Arctic Refuge Oil Surveys Put Polar Bears In The Crosshairs

Polar bear mother with two cubs on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean.

Oil and gas industrialization would destroy one of the last truly intact wilderness areas on Earth

D.C. Is Shut Down for the People — and Open for President Trump’s Corporate Cronies

Union members and IRS workers rallied against the federal government shutdown in Covington, Kentucky, on Jan. 10, 2019.

The government is working just fine for the oil and gas industry.

Reading Between the Lines of Wheeler’s Pro-Polluter Agenda

Andrew Wheeler is a former coal lobbyist with extensive ties to dirty energy companies. He is now advocating for severe rollbacks for public health protections.

The EPA nominee may not give the media a climate denial sound bite, but he clearly has no intention to tackle the problem.

The Storm Moved on, But North Carolina’s Hog Waste Didn’t

During Hurricane Florence, concentrated animal feeding operations like this one in Warsaw, North Carolina, flooded the surrounding community with hog waste.

Earthjustice and our partners are working to prevent future hog waste floods in the area hit hardest by Hurricane Florence.

With a Stroke of Red Marker, Zinke Leaves Interior to His Deputy

The new acting Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt, has been described as a "walking conflict of interest."

Buses Are the Electric Vehicle Everyone Should Be Talking About. Here’s Why.

Proterra is one of several companies manufacturing electric buses in California.

California could spark a national trend with a visionary new electric bus rule that will transform public transit.

Tired of Losing in Court, Trump Administration Amplifies Attack on Science

Participants in the 2017 March for Science in Washington, DC., protested the Trump administration's anti-science attacks.

The Trump administration is acutely aware of science’s role in pushing for effective government regulation, so it’s instituted a sneak attack on science.