Library Search

U.S. Court of International Trade Complaint: By authorizing imports of seafood from harmful fisheries in New Zealand, the federal government is not only neglecting their duty to protect the world’s marine mammal species from decline, but facilitating the extinction of the most endangered marine dolphin in the world: the Māui dolphin.

Local and national wildlife conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging federal agencies’ plans to allow increased road building in the Bitterroot National Forest that would cause harm to grizzly bears and bull trout; both of which are listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Earthjustice colabora con organizaciones y comunidades alrededor del mundo para establecer, fortalecer y hacer cumplir protecciones legales para el medio ambiente y la salud pública.

Court rules that the official biological opinion is not adequate to protect species

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.

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.

Earthjustice, representing Yellowstone Valley Audubon Society, sued the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for allowing the state of Montana to shoot and kill migratory birds at the Miles City Fish Hatchery along the Yellowstone River. The federal lawsuit, filed in the Montana District Court, charges FWS with unlawfully allowing Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, which runs the hatchery, to kill birds in order to limit their consumption of non-native bass.

Offshore emissions major source of Gulf pollution

Judge strikes down federal assessment that allowed dangerous oil and gas drilling to kill imperiled wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.

Locals aren’t letting dirty industry expand in the Gulf without a fight.

Earthjustice partners with organizations and communities around the world to establish, strengthen, and enforce legal protections for the environment and public health.

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.

Earthjustice and our partners are held a community rally in Northwest Indiana’s industrial corridor near Chicago to demand clean hydrogen and make sure community voices are heard.

Sushi is almost as common a choice as any for family dinners, first dates, or even the solo diner. The industry now boasts thousands of restaurants and generates billions in revenue, but our taste for Japan’s hand-rolled sea fare poses a threat you won’t read about on a restaurant menu.

Chris Eaton, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “The oil industry’s refusal to be even the least bit inconvenienced to prevent the extinction of the nation’s most endangered whale is why we are where we are.”

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.

Government is gutting rules designed to rebuild bluefin tuna population

Groups aim to defend against industry efforts to maximize offshore drilling in public waters