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document February 6, 2025

Tyson Greenwashing Case: Order Denying Motion to Dismiss

Judge Julie H. Becker denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss.

A grizzly in a Wyoming field. (Scott Suriano / Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory February 5, 2025

Judge Upholds Ruling Limiting Wolf Trapping, Snaring in Idaho

Upon reconsideration, judge rejects Idaho’s rare request to reverse decision

document January 28, 2025

Motion to Protect Florida Scrub-Jay

Motion to Protect Florida Scrub-Jay

feature January 29, 2025

Tools for Communities: Federal Hydrogen Hub Community Guide

How communities can gain information about and influence over Hydrogen Hub projects, including DOE’s Community Benefits Plan requirements

feature January 28, 2025

The Federal Hydrogen Hub Program

Overview of the federal Hydrogen Hub Program, including descriptions of the seven Hubs selected by the Dept. of Energy to negotiate for funding

document December 20, 2024

Motion to Intervene: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper: Improvements

Motion of Newburgh Clean Water Project, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club to intervene in support of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the challenge to the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper: Improvements.

The Florida Scrub-Jay is the only bird species found exclusively in the state of Florida. (Zach Stern / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release January 28, 2025

Conservation groups take legal action to ensure survival of declining Florida Scrub-Jay

Groups move to block effort to rescind Endangered Species Act protections

document November 21, 2024

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s Motion to Intervene to Support NOAA BiOp for Skagit Tide Gates

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community filed a motion to intervene as a defendant to support NOAA Fisheries’ Biological Opinion (“BiOp”) that found Skagit Dike District 12’s No Name Slough tidegate complex replacement would result in “jeopardy” to ESA-listed Chinook salmon and endangered Southern Resident killer whales unless estuary habitat mitigation measures were completed.

In the News: The New York Times July 2, 2024

A Seismic Supreme Court Decision

Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs, Earthjustice: “Any time the Court makes it harder for the government to regulate, and easier for businesses to challenge regulations, it makes it more likely that the industry will injure the public and the planet in search of profits. It’s basic economics.”

Rice's whale, photographed in the Gulf of Mexico. Rice's whales are members of the baleen whale family Balaenopteridae. With likely fewer than 100 individuals remaining, Rice's whales are one of the most endangered whales in the world. (NOAA)
Update February 22, 2023

Oil Companies are Blasting Seismic Air Guns in an Endangered Whale’s Habitat

With less than 100 Gulf of Mexico whales remaining, they are at critical risk if oil companies ramp up seismic oil exploration.

Dror Ladin, Earthjustice Senior Attorney, speaks to press after the congestion pricing motion to dismiss hearing on Sept. 27, 2024.
Press Release September 27, 2024

New York Supreme Court Denies Motion to Dismiss by Gov. Hochul on the Congestion Pricing Block Lawsuit

The case advances and the defendants have until October 15 to respond to the claims; the Congestion Pricing Program signed into law in 2019 to fund public transportation improvements, improve air quality, reduce traffic, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

document January 23, 2024

5th Circuit: Title VI Preliminary Injunction

State of Louisiana v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et. al.

The endangered right whale is among the marine creatures threatened by seismic testing.
(Edurivero / Getty Images)
Press Release December 11, 2018

Groups Sue Feds to Stop Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean

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

The welcome sign to St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, and a pipeline marker, are covered in red dust from the nearby Atlantic Alumina facility. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
Press Release August 23, 2024

Louisiana Federal Court Permanently Stops Title VI Protections Statewide

Ruling blocks federal safeguards against environmental injustice in Louisiana

Rice's whale — a new species of whale recognized in 2021, previously known as a subpopulation of Bryde's whale, endemic to the Gulf of Mexico.
(NOAA Fisheries)
Press Release July 22, 2021

Groups Challenge Seismic Oil and Gas Testing in the Gulf of Mexico

Powerful underwater blasts put iconic endangered whale at risk

Press Release August 29, 2022

Earthjustice Asks For Preliminary Injunction in the Erie Bayfront Parkway Lawsuit

In light of PennDOT’s plan to begin construction during active lawsuit, Earthjustice and clients filed a motion for a preliminary injunction calling for a pause

The endangered right whale is among the marine creatures threatened by seismic testing.
(Edurivero / Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory October 1, 2020

Seismic Blasting Efforts Halted in Atlantic Ocean

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

document March 22, 2023

Klamath River Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction

The Yurok Tribe, with the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) and the Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR), filed for a preliminary injunction to prohibit the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation from delivering water for irrigation unless Reclamation can ensure it will be able to comply fully with its Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) obligations to threatened Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast (“SONCC”) Coho Salmon and endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales (“Killer Whales”) that depend on Klamath River Chinook Salmon as prey.