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feature January 29, 2025

Tools for Communities: Federal Hydrogen Hub Community Guide

How communities can gain information about and influence over Hydrogen Hub projects, including DOE’s Community Benefits Plan requirements

The Florida Scrub-Jay is the only bird species found exclusively in the state of Florida. (Zach Stern / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release January 28, 2025

Conservation groups take legal action to ensure survival of declining Florida Scrub-Jay

Groups move to block effort to rescind Endangered Species Act protections

In the News: FingerLakes1 January 30, 2025

Greenidge files appeal to stall DEC legal proceedings

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This most recent emergency request to the Appellate Division is yet another effort by Greenidge to boost its own profits while it harms the Finger Lakes residents we represent, the local environment, and the climate. Justice delayed is justice denied, and we will keep fighting until the…

In the News: Politico January 28, 2025

Judge tosses legal challenge to Biden’s Arizona national monument

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “We’re pleased that the court rightly rejected this far-fetched attack on Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument. We stand ready to defend all national monuments from any future attack by the current president.”

The White House in Washington, D.C. (René DeAnda / Unsplash)
feature January 19, 2025

In Conversation: The 2024 Election Outcomes and The Work Ahead

In the aftermath of the 2024 election, Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice, discussed the outcomes of the election and how they will affect Earthjustice’s litigation, advocacy, and political work.

Earthjustice secured new protections for endangered grizzly bears and wolves in Idaho. (Beth Hibschman / Getty Images)
feature December 1, 2024

Earthjustice Program Report: Fall 2024

Each legal matter that Earthjustice takes on is a commitment to our clients and partners — a promise to fight alongside them for however long it takes.

feature October 7, 2022

La Energía Solar En Techos y Su Almacenamiento Distribuido De Baterías Garantizará Electricidad Confiable y Asequible Para Los Puertorriqueños

Es tanta la luz solar que recibe Puerto Rico en el transcurso de un año que puede generar más energía de la suficiente para satisfacer su demanda.

Volunteers with the group Comunidad Guayamesa Unidos por tu Salud install a solar power system in the home of community member in the Puente de Jobos neighborhood of Guayama, P.R., on Mar. 20, 2021. (Erika P. Rodríguez for Earthjustice)
feature October 7, 2022

Distributed rooftop solar and battery storage will ensure reliable and affordable electricity for all Puerto Ricans

Puerto Rico receives an abundance of sunlight year-round that can generate more than enough energy to meet demand.

Article August 13, 2012

Q&A: Frank James, M.D., Whatcom Docs

(Editor’s Note: This is the fifth blog post in an ongoing series about proposed coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest.) Dr. Frank James is a member of Whatcom Docs, a group of medical doctors in Whatcom County, Wash., who are concerned about the health impacts of a proposed coal shipping terminal in Bellingham, Wash.…

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Phil Roeder / CC BY 2.0)
Press Release October 28, 2024

States, Members of Congress, Former Agency & CEQ Officials, Legal Experts, Local Communities File Amicus Briefs in Defense of NEPA in Supreme Court Oil Train Case

Amici from broad and varied interests will help Supreme Court understand the legal and practical consequences of undoing lower court ruling

A wild chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). (Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release November 21, 2024

Swinomish Tribal Community Seeks Legal Intervention to Mitigate Salmon-Harming Tidegates

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

Nicole Berner, now a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on December 13, 2023. (Graeme Sloan / Sipa via AP Images)
Article November 20, 2024

3 Reasons to Be Hopeful About the Courts

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

Fishing skiffs tied up on the riverbank along the Kuskokwim River in the village of Akiachak, Alaska. (Design Pics Inc / Alamy)
Article October 1, 2024

Alaska Tribes Win Legal Fight Against Gold Mine

The massive Donlin Gold Mine, if built, would pose grave risks to Kuskokwim River communities.

LNG transport ship at the New Fortress Energy facility in San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico. (Myrna Conty)
Article November 18, 2024

Puerto Rico’s Grassroots Fight to Stop an Illegal Methane Gas Expansion

Communities in San Juan are battling to stop a rogue gas company’s efforts to push dangerous methane gas on the people of Puerto Rico.

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
(Architect of the Capitol)
Article June 28, 2024

Supreme Court Eliminates Longstanding Legal Principle in Ruling About Fisheries Management

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

page August 15, 2024

Legacy Giving: Why I Give to Earthjustice

Hear from supporters like you who joined with Earthjustice to defend our wild places, our communities, and our future.

page July 11, 2024

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feature September 20, 2024

Fossil Fuels

Earthjustice and our partners are fighting to loosen the fossil fuel industry’s destructive grip on our world. We can win — and it will take all of us.