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Offshore emissions major source of Gulf pollution

Environmental and Gulf groups challenge Interior Department’s outdated air quality regulations for offshore drilling

A judge overturned the Biden administration’s reckless lease sale in Cook Inlet, citing threats to the rare beluga whale.

Burning fossil fuels is making summer more prone to extreme weather events. Here’s how we’re tackling the climate crisis.

El fallo a favor de grupos ambientalistas resalta las preocupaciones sobre la supervivencia de las ballenas beluga

Ruling in favor of environmental groups highlights concerns about endangered whales

Federal court reverses offshore oil lease sale that threatened belugas off Alaska’s coast

Ruling shifts balance of power to judicial branch

Advocates representative of historically-excluded and marginalized communities gathered to center ocean justice ahead of World Ocean Day

Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, represented by Earthjustice, filed an appeal before Washington State’s Pollution Control Hearings Board requesting West Point, the state’s largest wastewater treatment plant, install controls to limit nitrogen and phosphorus – nutrient pollutants that have long contributed to poor water quality in Puget Sound.

Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “We think that building massive terminals to export fossil fuels, and putting them where people are already living with terribly polluted air, violates the policies that President Biden laid out in his executive orders.”

An opinion piece by Alisa Coe, Deputy Managing Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program: “No matter how you look at it, there’s a really dire need to accelerate this shift to clean energy. The things the industry is doing now is not going to help that transition.”

A coalition of conservation groups filed a second lawsuit to protect Hawaiian petrels (ʻuaʻu) from dangerous lights used by the Grand Wailea Resort on Maui. Hawaiian petrels are protected as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Today’s lawsuit was filed by Earthjustice on behalf of Conservation Council for Hawaiʻi and the Center for Biological Diversity.

Earthjustice, representing Oceana, prevails in lawsuit to recover Pacific sardines to protect whales, sea lions, seabirds, and other ocean animals that rely on the small fish for food

Ruling says government must establish new fisheries management measures to protect Pacific sardines and species that depend on them

Letter comes on eve of the 14th anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill