We take on many of the biggest environmental and health challenges of our time and stick with them. The law makes change.
Because the earth needs a good lawyer.
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By Alison Cagle / Rocky Mountain Office
A mining company won’t stop trying to bend the rules to construct a massive mine on sacred lands – even after Tribes beat it in court.
By Alison Cagle / Fossil Fuels Program
A sprawling oil complex could have desecrated the remains of Ironton’s founders and poisoned their living descendants with toxic emissions.
By Alison Cagle / Oceans Program
After trying various scorched-earth tactics to avoid accountability, Taylor Energy is now liquidating to pay over $400 million in cleanup costs.
By Alison Cagle / Fossil Fuels Program & Oceans Program
Our oceans are an asset for saving the planet, not lining Big Oil’s pockets.
By Alison Cagle / California Office
A people’s movement banned coal from a major shipping terminal in Richmond, California, with legal support from Earthjustice.
By Alison Cagle
“We are all scared about our future, but together, we can support each other and talk about it, not keep it hidden,” says 18-year-old Rima Rahmani.
By Sambhav Sankar & Alison Cagle / Washington, D.C. Office
Sambhav Sankar, Earthjustice’s senior VP of programs, shares his perspective on what environmental litigation can achieve.
By Alison Cagle / Oceans Program & Policy and Legislation Team
Selling public land to companies that carve it up for fossil fuels is a bad deal for people and the environment.
Across the nation, people are reclaiming Black spaces as equally deserving of a healthy environment and protection under the law.
Two recent wins in Southern California show that e-commerce doesn’t have to come at the expense of people’s health if the industry shifts to an electric future.
