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NW Natural is seeking to overturn the groups’ victory, phasing out gas pipeline subsidies that the company passes on to customers, resulting in higher energy costs

This year, Earthjustice’s work with the Washington Legislature focused on commonsense guardrails on data centers, curbing marine pollution, and securing state funding for two key Snake River studies.

Si la Corte falla a favor de la industria química, pacientes con cáncer y trabajadores agrícolas podrían perder su único recurso para obtener una compensación cuando los pesticidas tóxicos les provoquen enfermedades

If the Court sides with the chemical industry, cancer patients and farmworkers could lose their only path to compensation when toxic pesticides make them sick

The case is one of thousands brought by people who got non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after applying Monsanto’s Roundup. Two FIFRA regulations will likely loom large at argument.

The Department of Energy is claiming false emergencies to keep open dirty, inefficient coal plants across the country including a coal plant slated for shutdown in Centralia, Washington

Public interest groups filed a second request for rehearing in response to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) renewal in March 2026 of the initial emergency order issued in December 2025 forcing the TransAlta coal plant in Centralia to remain open past its planned shutdown date.

The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing Monsanto v. Durnell, a case that could determine whether people harmed by pesticides can still bring so-called failure-to-warn claims under state law.

The county must conduct an independent capacity analysis of the terminal expansion and redo its environmental analysis

The Whatcom County Hearing Examiner sided with six local environmental groups in ruling that Whatcom County mishandled its review of a series of expansions of a liquefied petroleum gas facility near Bellingham. The County must now conduct an independent capacity analysis of the terminal expansion and redo its environmental analysis.

Ruling derails future attempts to weaken law

The market choice will increase energy costs for customers while Bonneville Power Administration attempts to scapegoat salmon for rising energy costs

Washington residents deserve cleaner air and more affordable, reliable, clean energy

The long-planned shutdown of the coal plant in Centralia, Washington, was designed to provide state residents with cleaner air and more affordable, reliable, clean energy

Earthjustice filed a petition for review in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn an illegal emergency order issued by the Department of Energy forcing Washington’s last coal plant to continue operating.

The court’s decision orders federal agencies to implement important, immediate steps to ensure Northwest salmon don’t go extinct.

Federal defendants ordered to change Columbia Basin hydropower operations to protect endangered salmon and steelhead

A federal court in Oregon ordered federal agencies to change operations of the Columbia Basin hydropower system in critical ways to help improve salmon survival.