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A section of the border wall separates Douglas, Ariz., from their neighbors in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.
Jeff Goulden / Getty Images
Mar. 19, 2019 Border Wall
An explanation of the lawsuit challenging President Trump’s declaration of national emergency.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hikers at Bears Ears National Monument.
© Steven Gnam
Dec. 4, 2017 Maps: Bears Ears
Defending Bears Ears National Monument: What’s at stake.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Aerial view of Paris.
Daniel Parks / CC BY-NC 2.0
May 10, 2017 Paris
What you should know about the Paris Agreement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Aug. 16, 2019 FAQ
What’s happening now in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit challenging the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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The Dakota Access Pipeline.
Alejandro Davila for Earthjustice
Aug. 16, 2019 Legal Analysis
Tribe asks Court to shut down DAPL; Massive pipeline expansion planned.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“There is absolutely no moral justification for us to destroy the potential of future generations just so that we can stay comfortable and resist change.”
– Rev. Dr. Terry GallagherOrdained Minister, United Church of Christ.
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