Seven Tribal nations seek to fend off attack by 12 states

A Montana District Court ruling recognized that grizzly bears are indeed impacted by existing roadways that do not receive motorized use, which the agencies failed to consider when allowing increased roadbuilding in the Flathead National Forest. Grizzly bears have learned to avoid roads — even closed roads — and are often displaced from habitat that features them.

Conservation groups secure another win for grizzly bears and bull trout

What you need to know about Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, and how the Court’s ruling jeopardizes the government’s ability to regulate

Seven Tribal Nations, represented by Earthjustice and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota to intervene in defense of the EPA’s Tribal Reserved Rights Rule, after 12 states filed a lawsuit to dismantle it.

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

New and diminished engagement with U.S. Tribes violates Provincial law

The federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has added the critically endangered Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whale to a de facto extinction watchlist. But we still need to do more to protect the species.

Andrea Treece, Attorney, Oceans Program: “We leave too much gear on the water too late in the season; we wait until the risk is elevated. Too often, it’s too late to protect those whales. And so we need to really learn our lesson from the past.”

H.R. 6008 would leave in place a Trump-era biological opinion that fails to sufficiently protect Rice’s whales, leaving them highly vulnerable to oil spills and vessel strikes

It’s time to repeal this damaging and undemocratic piece of legislation.

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “You have this chemical that is causing severe health risks to workers, consumers and surrounding communities and those risks have not been adequately regulated under any other law.”

Motion to intervene filed in support of President Biden’s monument designation near Grand Canyon

Earthjustice, representing Oceana, prevails in lawsuit to recover Pacific sardines to protect whales, sea lions, seabirds, and other ocean animals that rely on the small fish for food

The permit vastly underestimates harmful air pollution from the plant that would cause health impacts to residents in nearby communities

An opinion piece by Marvin C. Brown IV, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office, Earthjustice

Settlement agreement pauses oil and gas leasing in whale habitat and slows vessel traffic for Gulf of Mexico whales on brink of extinction while officials re-evaluate protections