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Each legal matter that Earthjustice takes on is a commitment to our clients and partners — a promise to fight alongside them for however long it takes.

Earthjustice partners with organizations and communities around the world to establish, strengthen, and enforce legal protections for the environment and public health.

Learn about the major events and where we are now in this fight

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights set an important precedent for state oversight of industrial pollution.

Isaac Moriwake, longtime environmental attorney at Earthjustice, reflects on recent cases that now have potential to improve on the status quo.

The Mendoza Supreme Court’s differential treatment between the oil industry and civil society groups occurred in a lawsuit over the authorization of fracking from the Vaca Muerta formation in the Argentinian province

Earthjustice attorneys will be presenting before the Court

Natalie Bridgeman Fields joins the public interest environmental law organization from Accountability Counsel, which she founded and directed for 14 years

As the managing attorney of the Earthjustice International Program, Natalie leads a global team of attorneys, scientists, and other practitioners working to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and advance clean energy, defend biodiversity and the natural world, and protect human health.

Earthjustice’s work is supported and guided by our Board of Trustees.

The thematic hearing request is supported by 243 organizations, including petitioning groups from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, and the United States. The request urges the commission, which monitors human rights within the Organization of American States, to investigate human rights abuses resulting from the unchecked expansion of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, across the Americas.

The Court found Peru responsible for violating the rights of residents of La Oroya, who have been exposed to unsafe levels of toxic contamination for generations

An international court ruled in favor of the people of La Oroya, Peru, finding that the government violated their right to a healthy environment.

This is the first time the UN Human Rights Prize has been awarded to a global coalition

The coalition includes advocates in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, United States, and the request is supported by 127 organizations and 151 academics, experts, and individuals.

SEITC briefs the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights on Canada’s violations

Mining pollution threatens the sovereign rights of the Tsimshian in Southeast Alaska. Assistant Executive Director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission Lee Wagner tells what that means for her community.

Petition from the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC) addresses Canada’s failure to regulate and prevent threats from large-scale mining operations in British Columbia