“We will use the courts and every tool at our disposal to spur the imperative clean energy transition that is already underway.”

Communities in San Juan are battling to stop a rogue gas company’s efforts to push dangerous methane gas on the people of Puerto Rico.

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

By picking Burgum, who has little experience managing lands, Trump is signaling that the agency will prioritize expanding oil and gas drilling on federal lands for the next four years.

The Bad River Band and allies continue to fight the dangerous oil pipeline

The Supreme Court of Albany County annulled NYS-Public Service Commission’s purchase approval of Fortistar North Tonawanda, a 55-megawatt fracked gas power plant solely utilized to mine crypto currency, and ordered the agency to reopen the question of whether the plant can be sold and to follow the law this time.

We are prepared to defend the environment and communities no matter who holds political office.

We are prepared to defend the environment and communities no matter who holds political office.

The policy playbook from the Heritage Foundation would strip away our rights to clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet.

The Manchin-Barrasso Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (EPRA) includes several provisions that seek to promote electricity transmission, liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, and oil and gas leasing. It is expected to increase deployment of both fossil fuel and clean energy infrastructure, yielding a combination of beneficial and harmful impacts on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, health, environmental justice, and ecosystems. This raises a complex and immensely consequential question with respect to the climate crisis: would this tradeoff take us in the right direction?

How the Manchin-Barrasso Energy Permitting Reform Act will impact existing environmental law

We’re standing up for the principle that the government must consider predictable environmental harms before it acts.

The 2022 law required the DEC to produce a study into cryptomining’s environmental impacts by November 22, 2023; Without a completed environmental study, New York further delays meeting Climate Act goals

State oil and gas agency adopts rules that undercut 2024 legislation to better protect disproportionately impacted communities and address cumulative impacts

Erik Grafe, Attorney, Alaska Office, Earthjustice: “The BLM retains wide discretion to condition any lease sale to lessen the harm.”

Huge cryptomining operation run by Marathon Digital Holdings linked to serious health concerns

The oil and gas sector is the largest industrial source of methane emissions in the U.S.

Las diferencias de tratamiento por parte de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de Mendoza ocurrieron en el marco de una demanda acerca de la autorización del fracking o fractura hidráulica para explotar petróleo y gas de la formación Vaca Muerta en la provincia argentina.