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State of Oregon proposed order seeking emergency measures to protect endangered salmon and steelhead from harms caused by lower Snake and Columbia River dam operations.

Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups represented by Earthjustice filed a preliminary injunction request with a federal court in Oregon seeking emergency measures to protect endangered salmon and steelhead from harms caused by lower Snake and Columbia River dam operations. The State of Oregon filed a similar request at the same time.

Following the Trump administration’s abrupt and unilateral withdrawal from a historic agreement to restore the Columbia basin, plaintiffs return to court to prevent salmon and steelhead extinction

Legislation would have tied Southern California air regulators’ hands and made it more difficult to shape clean air policies in the nation’s smog capital

Taxpayers have a legal right to see where their money is spent

Friends of the Everglades filed suit against the Florida Division of Emergency Management because the agency is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on a mass immigration detention center in the Everglades without disclosing financial arrangements with the federal government. The failure to disclose those records violates Florida’s Government-in-the-Sunshine Act, which requires agencies to make official records available to the public.

Governor Hochul must accelerate transmission and battery storage to save New Yorkers money, not prop up expensive, polluting gas plants

The California Ratepayer Protection Act (AB 1167) prevents utilities from forcing customers to pay for utility lobbying and advertising costs

The ocean is inseparably intertwined with American Samoa culture and identity. Now deep sea mining threatens it all.

Coal-fired power plants discharge toxic chemicals into sources of drinking water for more than 30 million Americans.

Earthjustice sent a letter on October 10, 2025 to New York Independent System Operator responding to its draft 2025–2034 Comprehensive Reliability Plan outlining several concerns and suggestions for changes.

Science shows that true recovery of grizzly bears requires a unified population with connected ecosystems.

This full-page ad ran in the Seattle Times on Oct. 8, 2025 to help counter misinformation about the state of the Columbia Basin’s salmon and steelhead runs being spread by industry special interests. The truth is that Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead are in serious trouble, with key stocks teetering on the brink of extinction. For more information: https://earthjustice.org/feature/columbia-basin-salmon-peril

Resolution will upend the public lands management system as we know it

In mid-July 2024, a resident discovered a shell deposit in an eroded bank at Donnel Point, located on La Quinta Channel. This property is owned by the Port of Corpus Christi and may be slated for development. Immediate steps must be taken to protect these cultural resources and preserve this place, which may be the last intact Indigenous settlement on the north shore of Corpus Christi Bay.

A local scientist and historian alerted the state to what they found at the site along the Corpus Christi Gulf Coast

Wild fish populations in the Columbia Basin are in serious trouble, with key stocks teetering on the brink of extinction.

AB 1280 establishes funding mechanism for companies to replace dirty industrial equipment with zero-emissions technologies