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Earthjustice handles legal matters that involve environmental laws or environmental issues and that have the potential to generate results that align with our mission.
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.
Coalition urges City officials to ensure that community gardens continue to strengthen NYC communities by designating gardens as “critical environmental areas”
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.
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.
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.
THE SUPREME COURT JUST ATTACKED THE CLEAN WATER ACT
The U.S. Supreme Court stripped protections from at least half of our 118 million acres of wetlands. Help us fight back.