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Boat docks at the Browns Ravine Cove sit on dry earth at Folsom Lake on May 10, 2021, in El Dorado Hills, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency in 41 of the state's 58 counties, about 30% of the state's population. Folsom Lake is at 38% of normal capacity.
(Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
feature October 1, 2024

How Climate Change Is Fueling Extreme Weather

Carbon pollution is contributing to climate disasters that will only get worse unless we take action.

Fishing skiffs tied up on the riverbank along the Kuskokwim River in the village of Akiachak, Alaska. (Design Pics Inc / Alamy)
Article October 1, 2024

Alaska Tribes Win Legal Fight Against Gold Mine

The massive Donlin Gold Mine, if built, would pose grave risks to Kuskokwim River communities.

Fossil fuel drilling sites in Alaska's Western Arctic, in an around the Lake Teshekpuk area. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Article September 27, 2024

Project 2025 Means More Mining and Drilling on Public Lands. We’ll Fight Back.

We are prepared to defend the environment and communities no matter who holds political office.

Carbon dioxide leaks out of a high-pressure CO2 pipeline north of Sulphur, Louisiana. Residents in a quarter mile radius of the leak were told to shelter in place. (Calcasieu Parish Police Jury)
From the Experts September 25, 2024

Carbon dioxide pipelines: a dangerous part of Appalachia’s proposed carbon capture boondoggle

Local, state, and federal authorities must take action to ensure the safer construction and operation of CO2 pipelines.

feature September 20, 2024

Fossil Fuels

Earthjustice and our partners are fighting to loosen the fossil fuel industry’s destructive grip on our world. We can win — and it will take all of us.

Press Release September 20, 2024

Supreme Court Should Deny Shadow Docket Requests to Block Methane Pollution Limits

Health, environmental, community groups urge court not to stay vital climate, health protections

 Caribou make their way across the Teshekpuk Lake area of northern Alaska. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
From the Experts September 16, 2024

New Protections Within Reach for Vast Areas of the Western Arctic

More than 200,000 people call on Interior to expand protections against oil and gas drilling.

Governor JB Pritzker signs into law critical legislation providing safeguards against the risks and harms of carbon capture and sequestration. (City of Decatur)
From the Experts: Victory September 13, 2024

We passed a law in Illinois to protect communities from CCS. Here’s the view from the negotiation table.

While there were certainly difficult compromises, the protections secured by Illinois advocates are a significant victory.

Emisiones de una chimenea en la central eléctrica Mitchell, una planta de energía a carbón, en Moundsville, Virginia Occidental. (Lauren Petracca para Earthjustice)
Article September 6, 2024

¿Qué Haría el Proyecto 2025 con el Medio Ambiente y Cómo Responderemos?

El manual de políticas de la Fundación Heritage nos quitaría derechos a un aire y agua limpios, además de un planeta saludable.

Carbon dioxide leaks out of a high-pressure CO2 pipeline north of Sulphur, Louisiana. Residents in a quarter mile radius of the leak were told to shelter in place. (Calcasieu Parish Police Jury)
Article September 4, 2024

A Leaking CO2 Pipeline Can Cause Suffocation Within a Minute. The Government Needs to Regulate Them, Fast

Industries are planning a massive buildout of CO2 pipelines. Here’s what to know about the health risks, and how we’re asking the government to protect communities from a lethal pipeline rupture.

Roishetta Sibley Ozane (left) founded The Vessel Project of Louisiana and co-directs the Gulf South Fossil Fuel Finance Hub. Robert Thompson is an Inupiat guide who has worked to protect the Arctic Refuge from oil drilling.
feature September 3, 2024

Our Energy Future

Uplifting voices across the nation, who are leading the way to cleaner, safer energy sources.

Emissions from a stack at the Mitchell Power Plant, a coal powered plant, in Moundsville, West Virginia. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Article August 30, 2024

What Project 2025 Would Do to the Environment – and How We Will Respond

The policy playbook from the Heritage Foundation would strip away our rights to clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet.

document August 30, 2024

Bad River Band Comments on USACE’s Line 5 Environmental Assessment

Comments submitted by Earthjustice on behalf of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa requesting a more thorough review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the impacts of Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 reroute project.

Press Release August 30, 2024

Over 150k Public Comments Oppose Federal Permits for Line 5 Pipeline

Enbridge seeks federal and state approval to extend its trespassing pipeline

The Development Driller III in the Gulf Of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. (Gerald Herbert / AP)
Press Release August 21, 2024

Environmental Groups File Amicus Brief in Defense of Rulemaking Strengthening Financial Requirements for Offshore Oil-and-Gas Operators

Big Oil also defending govt. rule, opposing Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi

Loggerhead sea turtles are among the marine creatures vulnerable to seismic testing for gas and oil.
(Vladimir Wrangel / Getty Images)
Update August 20, 2024

Court Win Protects Endangered Whales and Sea Turtles From Oil Drilling

Judge strikes down federal assessment that allowed dangerous oil and gas drilling to kill imperiled wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Rice’s whale, one of Earth’s rarest whales. (Lisa Conger / Beth Josephson / Permit #21938 / NOAA Fisheries)
Press Release: Victory August 20, 2024

Court Orders Government to Protect Rare Gulf Whales, Sea Turtles, and Imperiled Marine Species from Damaging Effects of Offshore Drilling

Court rules that the official biological opinion is not adequate to protect species

document August 20, 2024

Amicus Brief in Defense of Rulemaking Strengthening Financial Requirements for Offshore Oil-and-Gas Operators

Environmental and Gulf-based groups filed an amicus brief today in defense of a federal rule that strengthens financial bonding requirements for offshore oil-and-gas projects thereby reducing the risk of leaving abandoned infrastructure in our oceans and their cleanup costs with taxpayers.