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

Updated Lead and Copper Rule will finally require removal of lead service lines that deliver drinking water to almost 22 million people in the U.S.

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

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment.

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.

Commissioners issued an order approving a settlement between Evergy and most intervenors

This complaint details the clients reasons for suing EPA for missing its risk review of 22 toxic chemicals.

Campaign partners celebrate their success in blocking the build out of five toxic petrochemical facilities

In 1971, Phil Berry, Fred Fisher, and Don Harris founded the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (as Earthjustice was then known), dedicated to fighting in court and in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Sierra Club and other environmental groups.

The California spotted owl is the last of four native Sierra Nevada species to receive Endangered Species Act protection in the culmination of a 30-year legal fight.

Settlement with Earthjustice hastens retirement of coal power in Michigan, mandates clean energy

Emergency order seeks to reinstate protections before upcoming, massive offshore oil and gas sale

EPA missed its deadlines to evaluate twenty-two toxic chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act

Energy Department export approval failed to fully assess project’s climate, environmental harms

The permit proceeding will be paused for one year and Danskammer will not challenge recent rulings

Highlights of how Earthjustice’s Northern Rockies office has leveraged the power of partnership and the law to defend communities, sacred lands and wildlife, and clean air and water.

When coal is burned in the U.S., most of the mercury in the coal no longer spews into our air — thanks to a federal rule that Earthjustice and our clients fought for and continue to defend.

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