The Latest by Jessica A. Knoblauch

Senior Staff Writer

Jessica is a former award-winning journalist. She enjoys wild places and dispensing justice, so she considers her job here to be a pretty amazing fit.

Quinault tribal member Larry Ralston stands on the beach at the Quinault Indian Nation reservation. The tribe must relocate the village of Taholah uphill due to sea level rise.

March 12, 2018

Climate Change Forces Quinault Tribe to Seek Higher Ground

By Jessica A. Knoblauch / Northwest Office

The tribe has taken the lead against local projects like oil terminals that would further climate change and threaten its existence.

A judge has ordered the FDA to release withheld information related to its approval of GE salmon.

February 2, 2018

Judges to FDA: Government Must Pull Aside Curtain on Genetically Engineered Salmon

By Jessica A. Knoblauch / Oceans Program

Appeals court rejects Trump administration’s attempt to withhold information from the public related to the approval of GE salmon.

Earthjustice attorney Eve Gartner (left) and scientist Arlene Blum (right) joined forces in 2011 to get flame retardant chemicals out of furniture. The coalition they built compelled federal regulators to call for banning an entire class of flame retardan

January 24, 2018

How Two Women Teamed Up to Take on the Chemical Industry—and Won

By Jessica A. Knoblauch / Toxic Exposure & Health Program

Earthjustice attorney Eve Gartner and scientist Arlene Blum worked together to convince the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban an entire class of toxic flame retardants.

El abogado de EarthJustice, Paul Cort, interviene en una audiencia pública en Sacramento. Cort ha puesto en práctica su dominio jurídico para obligar a la comisión de Servicios Públicos de California a repensar cómo se genera electricidad en el estado.

January 23, 2018

Cómo fue que por fin llegó la energía renovable a California

By Jessica A. Knoblauch / California Office

La ex presidenta de la Comisión de Servicios Públicos de California, Loretta Lynch, se acercó a Earthjustice con una nueva estrategia para embestir a la agencia que una vez dirigió.

Earthjustice staff attorney Paul Cort speaks at a public hearing in Sacramento. Cort has been using his legal know how to force the California Public Utilities commission to rethink how electricity is generated in the state.

January 19, 2018

Tired of Dirty Energy Winning, This Government Insider Tipped Off Earthjustice

By Jessica A. Knoblauch / California Office

Former president of the California Public Utilities Commission Loretta Lynch approached Earthjustice attorneys, including Paul Cort (pictured here), with a new strategy for taking on the agency she had once led.

Hikers on the peak of Cascade Mountain in Adirondack Park

January 17, 2018

New York’s Governor Wants to Run Roughshod Over the Adirondacks. We Just Stopped Him.

By Jessica A. Knoblauch / Northeast Office

Earthjustice just notched a big win in the multi-pronged fight to keep motorized vehicles out of Adirondack Park’s most pristine areas.

December 18, 2017

Saving Alaska’s Ancient Trees

By Jessica A. Knoblauch / Alaska Office

As my family and others decorate our Christmas trees, some of their oldest-remaining ancestors are at risk of being chopped down.

November 7, 2017

Trump’s Consumer Advocate Nominee Often Fights Consumers

By Jessica A. Knoblauch / Northeast Office & Policy and Legislation Team

Industry attorney Dana Baiocco is just the latest in a series of Trump picks that put people at the helm of regulatory agencies they have spent their careers attacking.

Farmers in Iowa, like Seth Watkins shown here feeding his cows, are restoring the land and climate by combining age-old practices with new knowledge.

October 26, 2017

Happy Cows and Tighty-Whitey Tests: Welcome to the Future of Farming

By Jessica A. Knoblauch / Headquarters Office

Farmers in Iowa are restoring the land and climate by combining age-old practices with new knowledge. Earthjustice is devising a strategy to accelerate this shift to climate-friendly agriculture.

Muchos muebles y productos para niños contienen retardantes de fuego; una comisión federal ha solicitado prohibir todas aquellas que son nocivas para los humanos.

October 23, 2017

Tras la presión de organizaciones civiles, comisión federal accede restringir retardantes de fuego nocivos para la salud