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An oil refinery looms over the west side of Port Arthur, TX.
(Eric Kayne for Earthjustice)
feature April 27, 2018

A Disaster In The Making

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

Southern California Edison solar technicians install photovoltaic panels on rooftops in Fontana, California.
(Michael Melford / National Geographic Creative)
Press Release August 26, 2015

Overwhelming Majority of California Latino Voters Want Climate Action Now

81 percent support state measures to combat climate change

Sperm whales will experience as many as 760,000 harassing exposures to airgun blasting over the next decade, according to the draft environmental impact statement.
(Tim Cole / National Marine Fisheries Service)
Press Release October 3, 2016

Feds Find Oil, Gas Seismic Surveys in Gulf of Mexico Would Harm or Harass Marine Mammals up to 31.9 Million Times

The new report acknowledges what environmental groups have long warned

Press Release June 21, 2013

Gulf of Mexico Whales, Dolphins Protected from Industry’s High-Intensity Airgun Surveys in Landmark Agreement

Environmental coalition reaches legal settlement with feds and oil and gas industry

The Earthjustice & GreenLatinos 2015 Environmental Attitudes Survey shows Latinos see climate change as a consequence of human activity at higher percentages than other Americans.
(Andy Dean Photography)
Press Release August 18, 2015

National Poll Finds 78 Percent of Latinos Say They’ve Directly Experienced the Effects of Climate Change

Earthjustice & GreenLatinos release new survey findings that show that Latinos care about environmental policies as much as they do social policies

A farmworker harvests ferns in Florida. An Earthjustice and GreenLatinos study on Florida Latinos and the environment found that the majority of Latinos in the state say it is very or extremely important to reduce the use of pesticides and GMOs in farming.
(Dave Getzschman for Earthjustice)
Press Release September 16, 2015

Overwhelming Majority of Florida Latino Voters Want Climate Action Now

74 percent support state measures to combat climate change

Document August 25, 2015

Polling Memo and Summary for California Release 2015 Environmental Attitudes Survey

Latino Decisions in partnership with Earthjustice and GreenLatinos conducted a national survey of Latino registered voters and their attitudes toward the environment.

A seismic survey fleet passes an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
(Land By Sea / Getty Images)
Press Release August 4, 2017

Feds: Seismic Oil Surveys In Gulf Of Mexico Would Harm Or Harass Marine Mammals Over 30 Million Times

Bureau of Ocean Management releases final environmental impact analysis of seismic surveys for gulf oil exploration

Document September 16, 2015

Official Latino Decisions Polling Memo: Earthjustice & GreenLatinos 2015 Environmental Attitudes Survey (Florida Results)

Latino Decisions, in partnership with Earthjustice and GreenLatinos, conducted a national survey of Latino registered voters and their attitudes toward the environment. Polling memo for Florida results.

Document August 25, 2015

Full California Poll Results: Earthjustice & GreenLatinos – 2015 Environmental Attitudes Survey by Latino Decisions

Complete California results, in English and Spanish.

Document September 16, 2015

Full Florida Poll Results: Earthjustice & GreenLatinos – 2015 Environmental Attitudes Survey by Latino Decisions

Complete Florida results, in English and Spanish.

Document March 28, 2017

Reply Brief In Support Of SRST Summary Judgment Motion and Opposition To Corps' Summary Judgment Motion

This case challenges several authorizations issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allowing Dakota Access Pipeline, LLC to build a crude oil pipeline with a capacity of over half a million barrels a day under the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Reservation.

Document November 28, 2016

Brief of Pikuni Traditionalist Association, Et al., in Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment and in Support of Federal Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment

Pikuni Traditionalist Association, Blackfeet Headwaters Alliance, Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance, Montana Wilderness Association, National Parks Conservation Association, and The Wilderness Society (collectively, “PTA”) submit this brief to oppose summary judgment arguments advanced by Plaintiff Solenex, LLC. Solenex challenges the Federal Defendants’ cancellation of a federal onshore oil and gas lease formerly held by Solenex in the Hall Creek portion of the Badger-Two Medicine area, which is located within the Lewis and Clark National Forest in northern Montana. PTA, et al., are non-profit organizations dedicated to the conservation of the natural and cultural environment, including the Badger-Two Medicine region at issue in this case.

Factory Butte in Utah is among the 2.1 million acres of public lands managed by the BLM Richfield Field Office.
(John Buie / CC BY 2.0)
Press Release: Victory December 30, 2015

Court Rejects Controversial Request to Delay Cultural Resource Surveys in Utah's Red Rock Country

First of six legal challenges to federal land use plans that put priceless cultural artifacts and some of the most spectacular landscapes in America at risk

Document March 3, 2016

Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Defendants’ Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment and Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment

On March 17, 2016, the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) cancelled a mineral lease held by Solenex LLC in an area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest where Congress has permanently withdrawn from mineral leasing and development. The Secretary explained that, although this
lease had issued before the ban went into effect, the lease had been invalid from its inception due to noncompliance with multiple federal laws. The Secretary reasoned that Congress’s subsequent leasing ban left her without discretion to correct deficiencies in the lease, and that even if she had discretion to do so, she would not exercise that discretion because mineral development on the subject land would irreparably harm irreplaceable natural and cultural resources. For the same reasons, and in the same decision, the Secretary also disapproved
Solenex’s Application for a Permit to Drill (“APD”).

Article August 10, 2010

Gulf Marine Animals Burdened By Noise

Noisy gas and oil drilling surveys upset fragile marine ecosystems

Because of commercial seismic surveys, hundreds of whales could lose their ability to hunt prey, navigate and communicate with one another.
(Joseph Rank/Jantoo)
Article January 6, 2017

Drilling Halted, the Atlantic Still Faces an Offshore Threat from the Oil Industry

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