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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

Michigan panel barred evidence about the public need for Line 5 and its risks

The lawsuit seeks to undermine the state’s efforts to cut emissions, boost energy efficiency, and reduce air pollution

Paul Cort, Director of Right to Zero, Earthjustice: “To meet basic standards for healthy air, California has to shift to zero-emissions trucks and trains in the coming years. Diesel is one of the most dangerous kinds of air pollution for human health, and California’s diesel problem is big enough to cast its own shadow. We’ll…

Adam Ratchenski, Attorney, Midwest Office, Earthjustice: “The right to present witnesses, evidence, and argument, and to present rebuttal evidence, is part of the rudimentary due process that’s required in administrative proceedings.”

Thanks to funding from congestion pricing, New York will place its largest order of zero-emissions buses yet