Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “This is the most right-wing court we’ve seen in almost a century, and that’s emboldening conservative legal activists to swing for the fences with legal claims that would have been laughable just a few years ago. The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.”

Final rule significantly curtailed emissions disclosure requirements despite widespread support

Deadlines set for EPA to take action on 33 states’ plans to reduce haze pollution

SPP failed for a second time to accurately accredit its generating resources, continues to discriminate against cleaner resources

Final rule improves upon status quo, but still enables companies to conceal financial risks

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County’s environmental review again deemed unlawful, local permitting halted

Pō‘ai Wai Ola and Nā Kia‘i Kai raised concerns about the energy project’s impact on the Waimea River

Wyoming sale was one of the largest oil and gas lease sales held on public lands

A decades-long fight for four imperiled species — and an entire landscape — is nearly complete.

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “It’s been many years now of litigation, fighting to protect this remarkable place, and phew, we’re done. The monument and its expansion, it’s now the law of the land. People should go visit this summer. It’s a beautiful place.”

We’re creating a zero-emissions reality from coast to coast.

Gavin Kearney, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The whole overarching point (of the federal rules) is that groundwater contamination is a big problem; it’s really unsafe, and we have to prevent it. You can’t let water in (to a coal ash impoundment); you can’t let water out; you can’t let water just sit inside…

Decision paves way to require Martin Lake Coal Plant to reduce harmful sulfur dioxide emissions

Judge finds EPA and USFWS failed to comply with Endangered Species Act

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.

New statewide building codes incentivizing heat pumps will take effect in mid-March

An important step towards justice for a historically Black neighborhood