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Livestock groups’ concerns and requested management changes were already addressed

Director Davis reiterates biological importance of reintroducing additional wolves to the state

Former U.S. Fish & Wildlife Grizzly Coordinator updates his own 30-year-old Recovery Plan

Conservation groups ask Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to reject livestock industry petition

This Verified Petition for Writ of Mandate and Complaint for Injunctive Relief challenges the decision of the California Air Resources Board to approve amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard that lock in decades of subsidies for polluting fuels without the required analysis and mitigation of their wide-ranging environmental harms.

A group of health advocates, represented by Earthjustice, sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to force the agency to reevaluate its decades-old authorizations for the use of certain phthalates in food packaging and food production materials.

Earthjustice, on behalf of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to swiftly correct flaws in its framework for assessing pesticide risks to pollinators. Currently, the EPA only requires pesticide manufacturers to submit limited data concerning pesticide impacts on adult honey bees.

Maryland Pesticide Education Network, in partnership with Earthjustice and a broad coalition of farmers, scientists, public health experts, businesses, and advocates, petitioned the Maryland Department of Agriculture to comply with state law by creating a comprehensive pesticide data program to increase pesticide use transparency.

The current voluntary standards for CO alarms are insufficient to safeguard public health. A significant flaw in these standards is that alarms are not triggered until carbon monoxide levels become life-threatening, leaving people vulnerable to lower concentrations of the gas that can still cause serious and permanent harm, including increased risks of cardiovascular harm, stroke, and developmental harm.

To revise the 1993 Recovery Plan for grizzly bears in the U.S. Northern Rockies using a metapopulation approach for lasting and sustainable recovery

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior is contesting the wetland and waterway permit that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources granted to Enbridge to construct the Line 5 reroute project.

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for producing an inadequate final Environmental Impact Statement on Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 reroute, violating the Wisconsin Environmental Protection Act.

Earthjustice, representing the Yurok Tribe, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, the Center for Environmental Transformation, and the Consumer Federation of America, filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging its 2024 rule on decaBDE, a toxic flame retardant linked to cancer, reproductive issues, and harm to children’s brain development. DecaBDE is also highly toxic to salmon and other wildlife.

Following proposed monarch listing, Earthjustice and Xerces petition EPA to upgrade risk assessment data for pesticides

A coalition of community, environmental justice, and conservation groups sued Kern County on Nov 20, 2024, for its approval of California Resources Corporation’s Carbon TerraVault I project.

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

Petition challenging the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources for a declaratory ruling, in connection with its approval of a petition for rulemaking to prohibit commercial aquarium collection in the State of Hawai‘i.

A nationwide coalition of 50 citizens’ groups and community advocacy, environmental justice, and environmental advocacy organizations, together representing tens of millions of people, in partnership with Earthjustice, petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to improve its oversight of water pollution from industrial-scale concentrated animal feeding operations, commonly known as Large CAFOs. The petitioning groups argue that improved oversight of Large CAFOs is necessary to satisfy the federal Clean Water Act and executive orders intended to advance environmental justice.