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Community and environmental groups sue Kern County for approving oil company’s plan that will keep the state hooked on fossil fuels, threatening community health and climate goals

Swinomish seeks to defend NOAA Fisheries Biological Opinion that protects ESA-listed Chinook Salmon, endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community filed a motion to intervene as a defendant to support NOAA Fisheries’ Biological Opinion (“BiOp”) that found Skagit Dike District 12’s No Name Slough tidegate complex replacement would result in “jeopardy” to ESA-listed Chinook salmon and endangered Southern Resident killer whales unless estuary habitat mitigation measures were completed.

Nonprofit organizations agree to drop their lawsuit once conditions are met

Dredging and mooring project approved without environmental assessment despite heightened risk of toxic contamination, group claims

Challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to approve a dredging and mooring project near the San Jacinto River Waste Pits (SJRWP) Superfund Site in southeast Texas.

Grizzly bears are facing growing threats to their survival in the Northern Rockies. Here’s how we’re working to secure true recovery of this iconic species.

Here’s why we remain confident that the courts are a place where we can mount an effective defense of the environment.

U.S. climate progress depends on getting it right on hydrogen

A coalition of community, environmental justice, and conservation groups sued Kern County on Nov 20, 2024, for its approval of California Resources Corporation’s Carbon TerraVault I project.

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

New Yorkers urge the governor to stand up for people, not polluters, and implement life-saving clean truck standards in full and on time to protect public health and the climate

The endemic Newell’s shearwater has a chance at survival thanks to an innovative team of conservationists, researchers, and Earthjustice lawyers.

Maui County pushed to comply with the Endangered Species Act

Plaintiffs Conservation Council for Hawai‘i and American Bird Conservancy hereby complain of the actions of Defendants Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and Maui Electric Company, Ltd and County of Maui to defend three critically imperiled seabirds from streetlights that are native to Hawai‘i and protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. Filed Nov. 19, 2024.

“As it stands, H.R. 8467 slashes funding to climate-smart programs, weakens bedrock environmental protections, and strips laws protecting communities’ public health.”

Over 170 groups send letter to Congressional leadership urging no anti-environmental riders in the Farm Bill.

Two new court decisions uphold New York’s power to enforce and implement its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) in regulating fossil-fuel generation