Judge Simon issues an injunction requiring increased levels of increased spill in the spring and extended summer spill.

Judge Simon declares the 2014 BiOp illegal in a lengthy and sharply worded opinion. This marks the sixth time a Columbia River System BiOp is declared illegal by a federal judge. Once again the Court sends the case back to the federal agencies to try to develop a new plan that complies with the law.

U.S. District Court Judge James Redden declares the combined 2008 and 2010 BiOps illegal for again failing to provide a legal and scientifically adequate plan to protect imperiled Columbia-Snake River salmon from extinction. These are the fourth and fifth BiOps the court has rejected.

U.S. U.S. District Court Judge James Redden in Oregon rejects the Columbia River Basin 2000 BiOp, calling its mitigation measure too uncertain and inadequate to protect salmon. This marks the second time a BiOp is declared illegal in the long-standing litigation to project Snake River salmon.

In Earthjustice’s first victory in the long-standing Snake River litigation, U.S. District Judge Malcolm Marsh overturns NOAA’s first BiOp on dam operations in a sharply worded opinion. The judge says the status quote is not working and the “situation literally cries out for a major overhaul.”

As time runs out for Pacific Northwest salmon, the Biden administration is signaling important steps to restore native fish populations and honor treaty obligations.

New federal protections secured through Earthjustice litigation will help ensure that wolverines, a snow-dependent species, can survive a warming world.

After 25 years of community advocacy, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army declare Mākua safe from future use of mortars, artillery, and other live-fire training

After decades of advocacy, the Secretary of Defense announced that live-fire training will never happen at the Mākua Military Reservation again.

Learn about upholding commitments to Northwest Tribes, salmon and orcas, climate resilience, and more.

The Tonawanda Seneca Nation filed a lawsuit in the Western District Court of New York challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to grant a right-of-way permit for an industrial wastewater pipeline through the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. The pipeline permit approval and subsequent drilling, which violates the National Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act, has caused multiple spills of hundreds of gallons of drilling fluids onto federally protected land and wetlands, prompting several pipeline construction stop orders.

The announcement comes after decades of litigation and public calls to save wolverines from development and climate change.

Fish and Wildlife Service to list species as threatened following decades of litigation

As scientists gathered at the Smithsonian to discuss the significance of the new-to-science whale, a court decision has further jeopardized the already critically endangered whale.

Tribes call for dam removal and restoration of healthy salmon and orca populations during emotional two-day summit.

U.S. fishing groups are suing tire manufactures over 6PPD, a chemical in tires, which interacts with ground-level ozone to create the highly toxic 6PPD-q.

6PPD interacts with ozone to create the highly toxic 6PPD-q

The Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR) and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) filed suit against U.S. tire manufacturers over the use of the chemical 6PPD in rubber tires because of its devastating impacts on Endangered Species Act (ESA)-protected salmon and steelhead.