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Washington’s leadership affirms the state’s commitment to restore healthy and abundant salmon and steelhead fisheries in the Columbia and Snake rivers

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.

Grizzly bears are facing growing threats to their survival in the Northern Rockies. Here’s how we’re working to secure true recovery of this iconic species.

Pipeline skipped environmental review, would drain Mojave of precious water

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction sought by Earthjustice and Western Mining Action Project, extending a temporary pause on harmful drilling for the duration of the Hualapai Tribe’s legal case challenging federal approval of the Sandy Valley Lithium Exploration Project.

We’re standing up for the principle that the government must consider predictable environmental harms before it acts.

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

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

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.

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

Ruling means a free-flowing Puyallup River for fish for the first time in more than 100 years

We therefore vacate the Commission’s Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Decision and Order issued June 28, 2021, as amended by Errata issued June 30, 2021, with respect to the IIFS and the delegation of the Commission’s public trust duties. Other than for the reasons given in this opinion for vacatur or remand, we affirm. We remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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.

Idaho Fish and Game brochure distributed to sport shops ignores grizzly bear protections

Order granted in part: the FEIS violates NEPA and ANILCA by failing to consider a larger tailings spill; claims that the FEIS’s treatment of the State HIA violated NEPA and that the Section 404 permit violated the CWA is denied.

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “Utah’s argument that the president may only designate small monuments centered on specific sites is just wrong. In 1920, the Supreme Court upheld President Teddy Roosevelt’s use of the Antiquities Act to protect 800,000 acres in Arizona when he declared the Grand Canyon a national monument. In…

Candice Youngblood, Associate Attorney, California Regional Office, says that CEQA is designed to improve projects, not stop them, and hopes the County re-analyzes the project’s potential impacts. “When communities weigh in, we have a better analysis, so really, the county should ensure that folks have a meaningful opportunity to weigh in.”

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