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Earthjustice secured new protections for endangered grizzly bears and wolves in Idaho. (Beth Hibschman / Getty Images)
feature December 1, 2024

Earthjustice Program Report: Fall 2024

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.

An onshore wind power facility near Tarfaya, Morocco. Earthjustice is expanding collaboration across Africa to accelerate the transition to renewable energy.
(siemens.com/press)
feature December 2, 2024

Earthjustice Alrededor del Mundo

Earthjustice colabora con organizaciones y comunidades alrededor del mundo para establecer, fortalecer y hacer cumplir protecciones legales para el medio ambiente y la salud pública.

An onshore wind power facility near Tarfaya, Morocco. Earthjustice is expanding collaboration across Africa to accelerate the transition to renewable energy.
(siemens.com/press)
feature November 17, 2024

Earthjustice Around the World

Earthjustice partners with organizations and communities around the world to establish, strengthen, and enforce legal protections for the environment and public health.

Commissioner John A. Tuma, left, speaks during a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission meeting in 2018, in St. Paul, Minn. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii / Star Tribune via AP)
feature May 15, 2024

Want to Lower Your Power Bills and Help Your State Fight Climate Change? Here’s Who to Talk to

In public utility commissions, Earthjustice is helping communities push for clean, affordable electricity for all.

Lilian Bello spoke against a proposed natural gas plant in Oxnard, California, that, if allowed, would join three existing gas plants on the city’s beach.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
feature May 13, 2024

A Fossil Fuel Company Tried to Put a Dirty Gas Plant on a Beautiful Coastline. It Failed.

Earthjustice’s work in state energy proceedings like California is driving the state, and the nation’s, clean energy transition.

Grizzly bear sow and cubs near Roaring Mountain in Yellowstone National Park. (Eric Johnston / NPS)
Press Release December 3, 2024

Local & National Groups Sue to Stop Unlimited Bitterroot Road Building

Local advocates tap Earthjustice to bring lawsuit aiming to protect vital grizzly bear corridor

Louie Wagner Jr. casts for ooligan on the Unuk River, as his family has for generations. (Sonia Luokkala / SEITC)
feature October 22, 2024

Timeline: SEITC Actions on British Columbia Mines

Learn about the major events and where we are now in this fight

Power lines near Pittsburgh, Penn. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
feature June 3, 2024

Powering up the Clean Energy Transition

See how Earthjustice makes the case before public utility commissions for a faster, fairer transition to clean energy.

NW Natural was one of the fossil fuel companies protested against during a Portland Youth Climate Strike march in Portland, Oregon on May 20, 2022. (Nick Cunningham / DeSmog.com)
Press Release: Victory October 25, 2024

Oregon Regulators Help Curb Spiking Energy Bills by Phasing Out Gas Subsidies and Removing $13.7 Million in Overcharges

The Oregon Public Utility Commission requires NW Natural to stop using customer funds to subsidize gas pipeline expansion, and removes costs for the company’s lobbying activities from rates

document November 20, 2024

Petition: Kern County Carbon TerraVault I

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.

document December 4, 2024

Māui Dolphin: U.S. Court of International Trade Complaint

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.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during an event at the Yellowstone River. (Jacob W. Frank / NPS)
Article October 11, 2024

The Biden Administration’s Record on Tribal Rights

To adapt to and withstand the challenges of climate change, we must respect Indigenous knowledge and protect Tribal rights. Here’s where this administration stood.

Chris Wright (Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0). Doug Burgum (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images). Lee Zeldin (Matt Rourke / AP).
feature November 26, 2024

The Presidential Transition & The Environment

Learn about key nominees in the Trump administration’s second term, and the powers they will have.

The Greenidge Generating Station on the west shore of Seneca Lake, near Dresden, New York.
(Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release November 19, 2024

Local Advocates, Earthjustice, AM Kelles Celebrate Court Rulings Directing NY State Agencies to Uphold Climate Law

Two new court decisions uphold New York’s power to enforce and implement its Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) in regulating fossil-fuel generation

Aerial view of the inside passage between Alaska and British Columbia (Sonia Luokkala / Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission)
Press Release August 1, 2024

Southeast Alaska Tribes request international protection as Canada threatens world’s last wild salmon rivers

Canada’s decision effectively silences Tribes as slew of gold and copper mines upriver in British Columbia threaten ecological hotspot

LNG transport ship at the New Fortress Energy facility in San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico. (Myrna Conty)
Article November 18, 2024

Puerto Rico’s Grassroots Fight to Stop an Illegal Methane Gas Expansion

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.

A horseshoe crab in the Delaware Bay near Fortescue, N.J. (Aristide Economopoulos for Earthjustice)
Press Release October 21, 2024

Fisheries Commission Once Again Rejects Female Horseshoe Crab Harvest Proposal for Delaware Bay, Extending a Lifeline for Migratory Shorebirds

Shorebird populations, which rely on crab eggs for food, remain vulnerable

Press Release September 4, 2024

As GOP AGs Target Title VI, 40+ Groups Rally to Defend Civil Rights

Coalition presses EPA to stand firm on civil rights protections amid new legal challenges