By land and by sea, America’s Arctic is under attack. Earthjustice is fighting on multiple fronts to protect this irreplaceable region and keep the Arctic’s fossil fuels in the ground.

California will finally stop allowing oil wells near people’s backyards.

Environmental groups challenge ‘emergency’ rules permitting unlawful contamination of protected aquifers

Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman, lead counsel to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their litigation, discusses the historic legal case and what lies ahead.

Concerned about health impacts of drilling rush, groups push EPA to act swiftly

Long phase-out of hazardous cars, inadequate speed limits, deficient tanker shells leave communities at risk of catastrophe

A new report documents how people have been left in harm’s way, as the Trump administration attempts to block the Chemical Disaster Rule.

Conservation and Alaska Native groups head to federal court in legal challenge to Shell Oil plans to drill in the Arctic Ocean this July

Federal agency allowed to ignore NEPA and ESA

A lawsuit, filed by Earthjustice in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club, challenges “underground injection control” regulations from California’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). The regulations allow oil companies to continue injecting oil industry wastewater and other fluids into protected aquifers until February…

Analysis of impacts sorely lacking

Analysis of impacts sorely lacking

Motion backs the Biden administration’s legality in pausing federal onshore, offshore leasing

The record shows that the Trump’s efforts to weaken environmental regulations are no match for the law.

Environmentalists in court to support rules protecting rivers, streams, wetlands from pollution

Enefit’s mining facility in Utah would expand development and use of kerogen oil, one of world’s most carbon-polluting fuels

Legal challenge takes on one of the largest lease sales in U.S. history, which raises serious threats to climate, Gulf communities, and endangered species

The threat from pipelines may be big, but it is solvable.