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Sharks are crucial for a healthy ocean, but overfishing is killing them. This bill takes a step in the right direction.

This new approach will help the agency protect marine biodiversity.

Earthjustice handles legal matters that involve environmental laws or environmental issues and that have the potential to generate results that align with our mission.

The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund announced that it is changing its name to Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund.

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

See 50 of our proudest accomplishments that truly changed life for people and wildlife and set the stage for the world we live in now and into the future.

Youth petitioners take fight for global climate change action to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

Coalition urges City officials to ensure that community gardens continue to strengthen NYC communities by designating gardens as “critical environmental areas”

Community gardens contribute a host of important environmental and social benefits for New York City but currently remain vulnerable to development

An explanation of the legal work to save Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, and what’s next.

By protecting community gardens through CEA designation, New York City can help to ensure that the gardens continue to strengthen and transform neighborhoods for decades to come.

Earthjustice launches new website on Earth Day.

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

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

A coalition of United States and Canadian conservation groups formally asked the U.S. government to use a federal statute, which includes the threat of trade sanctions, to pressure Canada to stop a controversial mining project proposed for British Columbia’s Taku River.

Powerful poisons cited in widespread poisonings, including Central Park hawks

In 1971, Phil Berry, Fred Fisher, and Don Harris founded the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (as Earthjustice was then known), dedicated to fighting in court and in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Sierra Club and other environmental groups.