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Earthjustice and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) represent the Nez Perce Tribe, Quinault Indian Nation, Bay Mills Indian Community, Puyallup Tribe of Indians, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in this case.

Court affirms district court’s invalidation of more than 100 oil and gas leases

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2020 decision that struck down the basis for the previous Trump administration’s oil and gas leasing on more than a million acres of public lands in key habitat for sage grouse, an iconic bird species of the Western United States.

Order in LNG-by-rail rule challenge

Major rail car explosion risk now averted throughout American communities

Every case Earthjustice litigates is on behalf of our clients, from nationwide organizations to grassroots groups — and every one of our clients gets top-tier legal representation, free of charge. With your support, Earthjustice has built capacity to navigate the rapidly shifting legal landscape. Wherever our energy future is being decided, Earthjustice is there. With community leaders across the country, we made measurable change. And, we have scaled up to protect more threatened ecosystems than ever before.

Affording protections to critical caribou calving and migration areas in the Western Arctic will help safeguard irreplaceable Arctic ecosystems from fossil fuel development

“We will fight attempts both inside and outside of Congress that threaten our ability to protect special places for the benefit of the American people.”

State regulators rejected a request from Puget Sound Energy to sharply increase gas and electricity rates, while taking steps to transition the utility to clean energy. This ruling by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission both moves PSE towards clean energy, while also highlighting some of the barriers to meeting Washington’s climate goals.

More progress to transition off fossil fuels will be needed to meet Washington’s climate goals; Initiative 2066 cited as a major barrier

An explainer for residents and community members in Detroit about the health impacts of DTE’s EES Coke facility, sulfur dioxide emissions, and our intervention in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act lawsuit against the facilities on behalf of Sierra Club.

Meet a handful of the Earthjustice lawyers who have fought the Trump administration and won. We’re prepared to do it again.

Long Beach becomes second city in California to make a bold commitment to electrify its garbage trucks

Allison Brouk, Attorney, Gulf Regional Office, Earthjustice: “They applied for a minor source permit, emitted at major source levels until they were fined and (state regulators) made them change that. It’s a pattern Drax has taken, somehow, just to work with the system.”

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “It was clear from the plaintiff’s arguments that they’re hoping to get the cases to the U.S. Supreme Court quickly and attack the monument designations themselves and perhaps the Antiquities Act itself.”

Rachel Spector, Attorney, Northeast Office, Earthjustice: “There have to be enforceable regulations that ensure we can meet the emission reduction mandates. Those were supposed to be in place a year ago. Now they are late and there’s no clear date when we are getting those regulations, and that’s a really troubling situation.”

CO₂ pipelines pose significant safety hazards to communities and the environment

Climate action falls to the NYS Legislature