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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.

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.

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.

Legal intervention seeks to retain forest protections that support Tribes, communities, and sustainable local economies

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

Search by county to see the level of smog pollution in the air. Smog can trigger asthma attacks and increase the risk of heart and lung diseases.

Search by county to see the level of soot pollution in the air. Soot causes death and serious health harms.

Trapping and snaring will no longer be allowed during non-denning periods

Earthjustice will go to court to protect critical connective ecosystem for grizzly bears

Mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM’s capacity market auctions make customers pay twice for fossil fuel power

The National Roadless Rule, now reinstated on the Tongass National Forest, safeguards vast tracts of old-growth forest that serve as important carbon sinks.

The National Roadless Rule was rolled back for America’s last great rainforest by the Trump administration, threatening millions of acres of undeveloped national forest lands

We are challenging flaws in PJM’s capacity market auction that favor fossil fuels and could mean skyrocketing rates for Mid-Atlantic customers

This case challenges the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to approve the expansion of an open pit mine whose water pumping is drying up Pinto Creek and putting vulnerable species at risk.