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There is growing consensus that the food system — what we eat and how we grow it — requires major change in order to protect our health, farmworkers, environment, and the climate.

Coast Guard reports most of the leak is contained

Pursuant to F.R.C.P. 65, the Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Hopi Tribe respectfully request a preliminary injunction to prevent the Rosemont Copper Company from undertaking any ground-disturbing activities approved by the Forest Service in its June, 2017 Record of Decision or pursuant to Rosemont’s March 20, 2019 revised Mine Plan of Operations.

Plaintiffs Tohono O’odham Nation, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and the Hopi Tribe move the Court for immediate injunctive relief barring Rosemont Copper Company from commencing the development of a new, mile-wide, open-pit copper mine southwest of Tucson. The project will ultimately disinter ancestral remains, obliterate archaeological and cultural sites, and permanently scar the natural beauty of the Santa Rita Mountains. Given the important and unique resources at risk, an injunction pending the Court’s final decision on the merits of this case is necessary and appropriate.

Pursuant to F.R.C.P. 65, the Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Hopi Tribe respectfully request a preliminary injunction to prevent Rosemont Copper Company from undertaking any ground-disturbing activities authorized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit or the U.S. Forest Service’s revised Mining Plan of Operations, which relied upon the 404 Permit.

The Santa Rita Mountains rise as a “sky island” from the desert south of Tucson, Arizona. They are a place of remarkable scenic beauty that contain some of the highest quality streams and wetland ecosystems in the American Southwest. This is also a landscape imbued with cultural significance, whose waters and wildlife have sustained Native American cultural and religious life for over 10,000 years. For the Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Hopi Tribe, these mountains are a place of prayer and respect that must be safeguarded for future generations.

Before the California PUC, Sierra Club’s motion to deny party status to Californians for balanced energy solutions or, in the alternative, to grant motion to compel discovery.

This case challenges Westlands Water District’s unlawful assistance and cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s plan to raise Shasta Dam and enlarge Shasta Reservoir — a project that would flood the protected, free-flowing McCloud River, destroy Native American cultural sites, and harm protected and imperiled species, in the interest of delivering more water from Shasta County to California’s Central Valley.

All areas of the country are legally entitled to healthy, clean air. Not all areas have it. Plaintiffs Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club bring this action for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief to compel Defendant Andrew R. Wheeler, in his official capacity as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to carry out his overdue legal obligation to officially determine whether certain moderate nonattainment areas of the country attained or did not attain the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone by the statutory deadline, an action necessary to strengthen clean air protections so as to bring communities with unhealthy levels of ozone pollution into compliance with clean air standards by a new legal deadline.

Earthjustice is representing eight conservation groups in a lawsuit challenging the proposed Prince of Wales timber sale, the largest logging project in a generation.

Regulators at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission rejected a proposal for a new gas-fired power plant by Vectren, a CenterPoint Energy Company which is a Houston-based utility company.

Earthjustice, leading a group of 16 conservation and community groups, sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today objecting to the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken clean water protections without public input. The letter comes in response to an executive order signed by President Trump on April 10, 2019, that seeks to undermine the authority of states and tribes to protect water quality under the Clean Water Act.

Este documento es un "informe" respecto a los objetivos declarados en el Plan DEI 2018 de Earthjustice. Específicamente, lo que aparece en las páginas siguientes es una revisión del objetivo original, un resumen de lo que se logró y una valuación.

Reviewing the progress that Earthjustice made in 2018 towards our goal of becoming a more inclusive and diverse organization that centers equity in all that we do.

Latino workers, environmental and public health advocates, and the mothers of two young men who died from methylene chloride exposure sued the Trump administration for excluding workers from a rule banning methylene chloride from use in paint strippers.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals orders the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to decide by mid-July whether to ban chlorpyrifos, the organophosphate pesticide linked to neurodevelopmental damage in children.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana rules that the Trump administration violated the law when it opened up America's public lands to coal leasing in 2017.

Park County Environmental Council and Greater Yellowstone Coalition filed their Motion for Vacatur of Exploration License and Brief in support on June 1, 2018. The Motion for Vacatur is granted. The Exploration License that is subject of this case by DEQ to Lucky Minerals, Inc. is void and of no further force and effect.