First step toward offshore drilling jeopardizes critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, puts marine life at risk

Alaska Natives and conservation groups ask for protection for marine mammals

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This new approach will help the agency protect marine biodiversity.

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

Permits will expire next month; industry won’t launch boats this year

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination on the basis of color, religion, national origin and gender. The text of the law is thematically organized into eleven sections, Title I to Title XI. Title VI is of particular significance. Find out why.

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.

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

Filing: Government downplayed considerable harm blasting would cause

As companies search for oil and gas deposits buried beneath the ocean floor in the Atlantic, whales and dolphins could suffer permanent hearing damage and even death.

Powerful underwater blasts put iconic endangered whale at risk

Groups demand federal agencies enforce laws to protect area and landowners from criminally-convicted corporation

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

Because of commercial seismic surveys, hundreds of whales could lose their ability to hunt prey, navigate and communicate with one another.

Environmental groups will use every tool available to prevent seismic airgun blasting for oil and gas surveys

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is one of the few enforceable civil rights laws that cover environmental actions. And from California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for the EPA to take a stand against environmental racism.