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A consortium of Tribal governments from the Kuskokwim region led by Orutsararmiut Native Council are fighting Donlin Gold, a mining project owned by Canadian based mining giants NovaGold and Barrick Gold. Earthjustice is representing the Orutsararmiut Native Council.

A coalition of rainforest defenders, represented by Earthjustice, successfully halted a massive commercial timber sale on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

Earthjustice is working with a broad coalition of partners to oppose reckless attempts to hand over the publicly owned wilderness of the Arctic Refuge to the oil and gas industry.

Willow Project would mark a major expansion for oil, gas extraction in Western Arctic

Tongass roadless areas are needed to maintain healthy populations of many wildlife species. It is vital for the region's tourism industry, as well as commercial fishing, subsistence, and recreation.

Challenging the Trump administration’s approval of the Liberty project, the first offshore drilling development in federal Arctic waters.

At the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, thousands of bald eagles gather to feast on the last runs of coho and chum salmon—a globally unique phenomenon. The area is threatened by a proposed hardrock mine. Earthjustice is representing a native tribal council and conservation groups to stop the mine.

Earthjustice is representing a coalition of conservation and Alaska Native groups in a lawsuit against President Trump, challenging his unlawful executive order to jettison a permanent ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

Threats to Pacific salmon, steelhead, grizzly bears, and woodland caribou from six metals mines in British Columbia, undermine U.S. conservation treaties.

A coalition of conservation organizations is challenging a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that permits oil companies to harm Pacific walruses during Arctic Ocean oil drilling.