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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denies the U.S. Department of Energy’s motion to dismiss for lack of standing.

The D.C. District Court rules against the Trump administration for violating federal law by failing to use all available scientific evidence to end the overfishing of dusky sharks in U.S. waters. The ruling, in response to an Oceana lawsuit filed by Earthjustice, requires the federal government to do more to end the rampant overfishing that has plagued dusky sharks.

Industrial agriculture drives climate instability. Explaining the benefits of climate-friendly farming and current Earthjustice efforts.

Notice of intent letter sent to EPA on March 4, 2019, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club

This lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Native Village of Nuiqsut, an Arctic community facing health issues and disruptions to traditional hunting practices due to ConocoPhillips' oil and gas drilling activities in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Conservation groups issued a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for approving rights-of-way for pipelines and powerlines that pave the way for the nation’s first commercial oil shale development.

A Reconsideration report issued in February 2019 by the Canadian National Energy Board recommends approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project, despite detailed input from First Nations and U.S. Coast Salish Tribes on the harms it would cause and threats it would pose to struggling orcas.

Latino workers and environmental organizations, represented by Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council, sue the Trump administration over its failure to ban the commercial and consumer use of methylene chloride, a highly lethal chemical in paint strippers. More than 50 people have already died from exposure to methylene chloride paint strippers.

A one-page summary of Earthjustice's report, "Toxic Cages: Toxic Contaminants At Goodfellow Air Force Base Put Children’s Health At Risk."

An Earthjustice report highlights how a migrant detention center for unaccompanied children detained at the border is slated to be placed on top of a former landfill and could have damaging effects on children’s health.

Industrial agriculture drives climate instability. Explaining the benefits of climate-friendly farming and current Earthjustice efforts.

Environmental groups Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund and Conservation Council for Hawaiʻi, represented by Earthjustice, brought suit to block the replacement of approximately 4,800 streetlight fixtures across Maui County with new LED fixtures that threaten to kill or injure critically imperiled seabirds and sea turtles. The County of Maui Department of Public Works violated the Hawaiʻi Environmental Policy Act by moving forward with the project, in conjunction with Maui Electric Company, without the legally mandated environmental review.

Pursuant to section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §7607(b)(1), and Rule 15(a) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Petitioners National Wildlife Federation, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club hereby petition this Court to review the final action of Respondent United States Environmental Protection Agency titled, “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2019 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2020,” 83 Fed. Reg. 63,704 (Dec. 11, 2018) (to be codified at 40 C.F.R. pt. 80).

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules health and labor organizations will have to argue, again, in court that chlorpyrifos, a brain-damaging pesticide, must be banned from all food use. The decision comes four months after Andrew Wheeler’s Environmental Protection Agency asked the court to rehear the case.

A federal judge rejects an effort by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its refusal to adequately protect shoreline areas in Puget Sound. The Court’s decision means the lawsuit, which charges that the agency has refused to assert its Clean Water Act jurisdiction over most shoreline armoring in Puget Sound, will go forward.

Pursuant to Clean Air Act § 307(b)(1), 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1), Federal Rules of Appellate Procedures Rule 15, and D.C. Circuit Rule 15, Downwinders at Risk, Sierra Club, and National Parks Conservation Association hereby petition this Court for review of the final action of Respondents U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, announced in a Federal Register notice published at 83 FR 62,998 (Dec. 6, 2018) and titled “Implementation of the 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: Nonattainment Area State Implementation Plan Requirements; Final Rule.”

Petition for review Bad Neighbor rule

Complaint challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' approval of permit for proposed Villages at Vigneto development project that would rely solely on groundwater, draining the San Pedro River and harming millions of migratory birds, including threatened and endangered species.