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Overruling Trump: 118 lawsuits filed to defend our environment.

Dec. 17, 2018

The Earth needs a good lawyer. And in this dark hour, Earthjustice has 133. We’re the lawyers for the environment, and the law is on our side.

Overruling Trump: 118 lawsuits filed to defend our environment.

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House candidate Sharice Davids takes a photo with supporters during a rally at her campaign office on Nov. 3, 2018, in Overland Park, Kan. Davids challenged Incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District seat — and won her election bid.

Charlie Riedel / AP Images

Nov. 16, 2018 Midterms

What the 2018 election results mean for the environment.

Drinking water is one of the most common routes of exposure to PFAS.

Getty Images

Dec. 11, 2018 Toxic Chemicals

What PFAS are, why they’re harmful, and what we can do to protect ourselves from them.

Trump’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency has signaled he will try to stop states from leading efforts to clean up our air.

Rob Chambliss / Earthjustice

Jul. 12, 2018 Clean Air Act

The Trump administration’s hazy plans to weaken car pollution standards won’t work. Here’s why.

Clean Energy

The Paterson Park neighborhood in Maryland could benefit from community solar projects.

Matt Roth for Earthjustice

Oct. 3, 2017 Clean Energy Terminology

Understanding players, practices, and policies that influence clean energy growth—and how it matters to you.

The 2017 Peoples Climate March in Washington, D.C.

Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice

Apr. 28, 2017 Rise of Clean Energy

The path to a clean energy transformation is rapidly emerging. This is how it’s happening.

A wind turbine.

PPAM Picture / iStockphoto

Feb. 25, 2016 In Conversation

Earthjustice attorney explains how we can use energy law as it exists today to keep compelling investment in the solutions of today and tomorrow.

National Monuments

A visitor looks at pictographs at Bears Ears National Monument.

© Steven Gnam

Dec. 22, 2017 Legal Analysis

Inside the legal case we’re making to save our national monuments.

Hikers at Bears Ears National Monument.

© Steven Gnam

Dec. 4, 2017 Maps: Bears Ears

Defending Bears Ears National Monument: What’s at stake.

A family enjoys Bears Ears National Monument.

Bob Wick / BLM

Sept. 12, 2017 In Conversation

Earthjustice attorneys explain why the fight to defend our national monuments is also a fight over the rule of law.

Sledding in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

Bob Wick / BLM

July 14, 2017 Public Lands

Learn about six of national monuments reviewed by the Interior Department.

On Mytilus Seamount, a bamboo coral is attached to the black basalt rock formed by a now-extinct undersea volcano.

NOAA Okeanos Explorer

Nov. 14, 2018 Oceans

4,000-year-old corals and deep-sea canyons can save New England’s iconic fisheries.

More on Climate & Energy

Bob Arrington.

Chris Schneider for Earthjustice

Oct. 4, 2017 Methane

Methane is invisible. The impacts on our health and our climate are not.

The Cheswick coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania.

Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice

Jan. 29, 2018 Clean Power Plan

What’s happening now with the Clean Power Plan.

Aerial view of Paris.

Daniel Parks / CC BY-NC 2.0

May 10, 2017 Paris

What you should know about the Paris Agreement.

More on The Wild

Bowhead whale and calf in the Arctic Ocean.

Vicki Beaver / NOAA

Mar. 17, 2018 Arctic

By land and by sea, America’s Arctic is under attack. Learn about the multiple fronts Earthjustice is fighting on to protect this irreplaceable region.

Bristol Bay.

Fish Eye Guy Photography

Oct. 11, 2017 Salmon

The open-pit Pebble Mine threatens Alaska’s Bristol Bay, one of the last places on Earth where wild salmon still thrive.

Mexican gray wolf pup getting a health check.

Wolf Conservation Center

Nov. 29, 2017 Wolves

How the Mexican gray wolf became one of the most endangered mammals in North America.

The locally-owned Chico Hot Springs Resort is one of hundreds of businesses calling for the mineral withdrawal. Emigrant Peak rises in the background.

William Campbell

Sept. 22, 2017 Public Lands

The “mineral withdrawal” that could save the gateway to Yellowstone National Park from industrial gold mining.

Yurok fishers Pete Thompson (left) and Bob Ray set a net in the Klamath River estuary.

Yurok Tribe

Feb. 10, 2017 Water

Tribes, commercial fishermen, and conservation groups are working together to save the salmon of the Klamath River.

Lower Granite Dam, one of the four dams on the Lower Snake River that are driving all remaining Snake River salmon toward extinction.

Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice

Jan. 20, 2017 Wild Salmon

Removal of four dams on the lower Snake River is a necessary, feasible action to save wild salmon.

A serpentine tributary of the Snake River. The four Lower Snake River dams impede the migration of adult salmon attempting to return to the thousands of stream miles of clean, cold high elevation tributaries.

Neil Ever Osbourne / Save Our Wild Salmon / ILCP

Sept. 30, 2016 Wild Salmon

The world’s greatest salmon run is now the most heavily dammed river system on earth. We can restore it.

The incredible comeback of gray wolf is one of our country's greatest wildlife success stories.

Steven Gnam

Mar. 13, 2017 The Law: ESA

The Endangered Species Act is one of the most popular, effective environmental laws ever enacted.

These two animals are about the same age. The larger one was genetically engineered to grow at twice the rate of normal Atlantic salmon (foreground). AquaBounty facility in Souris, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 26, 2007.

Paul Darrow / The New York Times / Redux

Sept. 1, 2016 GE Salmon

Why the first (and only) genetically engineered food animal approved for human consumption is a dangerous idea.

More on Healthy Communities

The algae outbreak at the St. Lucie River, June 27, 2016.

Dylan Hansen

Oct. 19, 2018 Algae Outbreaks

Why some of Florida’s rivers, lakes, and beaches are turning red and green.

Farmworkers pick strawberries in a California field.

Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice

Mar. 5, 2018 Pesticides

How each of us could be affected if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guts federal safety protections from pesticides.

The flooded Motiva oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Sept. 1, 2017.

Alex Glostrum / Louisiana Bucket Brigade

Sept. 13, 2017 Chemical Disaster

What the toxic catastrophes from Hurricane Harvey reveal about the national Chemical Disaster Rule.

$Navajo Chairman Daniel Tso speaks out against fracking at a Bureau of Land Management meeting that was required under the National Environmental Policy Act.$

Steven St. John for Earthjustice

Mar. 13, 2017 The Law: NEPA

The National Environmental Policy Act is the environmental law that empowers our communities.

More than half of all apples in the U.S. are sprayed with chlorpyrifos, a pesticide considered too toxic for residential use. Yet, the substance can still be used in our food.

Lance Cheung / USDA

Dec. 20, 2017 Pesticides

Chlorpyrifos is a pesticide considered too toxic for residential use. Yet, the EPA still permits its use in our food.

Annette Gibbs and her husband William stand in their front yard, which is near the Arrowhead Landfill.

Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice

Mar. 8, 2016 Title VI

One of the few enforceable civil rights laws that covers environmental actions is known as Title VI.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe & Dakota Access Pipeline

At the Native Nations Rise March in Washington, D.C.

Victoria Pickering / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Dec. 4, 2017 FAQ

What’s happening now in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit challenging the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The Dakota Access Pipeline.

Alejandro Davila for Earthjustice

Nov. 1, 2018 Legal Analysis

Understanding the renewed legal challenge against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The Dakota Access Pipeline.

Tony Webster / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Oct. 11, 2017 Legal Analysis

An explanation of the court’s Oct. 11 ruling.

The Native Nations Rise march in Washington, D.C.

Victoria Pickering / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

June 15, 2017 Legal Analysis

An explanation of the court’s June 14 ruling.

A water protector walks near a river.

Cyrene Krey / CC BY 2.0

Dec. 5, 2016 Legal Analysis

An explanation of the court’s Dec. 4 ruling.

The Sacred Stone camp.

Lucas Zhao / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Mar. 22, 2017 In Conversation

Earthjustice attorneys explain the historic legal case and how the fight has shaped other fossil fuel infrastructure battles.

The Administration

The U.S. Capitol.

Architect of the Capitol

May 9, 2018 Access to Justice

Congress is mounting a quiet attack on the American public’s right to access the courts.

See the tracker

Stein Photo / Getty Images

Jan. 31, 2018 In Conversation

One Year In: Earthjustice attorneys the first year of the Trump administration and what lies ahead.

Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee, April 26, 2004.

Dennis Cook / AP

Jul. 13, 2017 U.S. Supreme Court

How Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation would be a big win for polluters.