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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.

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.

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.

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

Earthjustice launches new website on Earth Day.

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

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

Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman, lead counsel to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their litigation, discusses the historic legal case and what lies ahead.

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.

As part of our work to preserve biodiversity, Earthjustice has mounted a series of legal challenges to protect vulnerable shark species from industrial fishing.

Aim Is to Boost Citizen-Enforced Environmental Law Throughout the Nation

Environmental groups challenge ‘emergency’ rules permitting unlawful contamination of protected aquifers

Public Citizen, NRDC and Communications Workers of America represented by Earthjustice seek injunction barring agencies from following order

Citing potential threats to water supplies and endangered wildlife, a U.S. district judge overturned a federal plan to open more than 1 million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to drilling and fracking.

The D.C. District Court invalidated the Department of Interior’s decision to offer 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing, marking a pivotal victory in the fight to defend Gulf communities and the planet from the worsening climate crisis.