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Lake Okeechobee in Florida is overloaded with fertilizer and animal waste from cattle and dairy farms as well as other sources. Existing restrictions are inadequate to the task of cleaning them up. Earthjustice successfully sued to make the authorities follow the law and clean up waterways tributary to the Lake.

Earthjustice is working to preserve science-based guidelines for managing water flows through the San Francisco Bay-Delta at levels that protect imperiled fish and orcas—and help to restore the Delta ecosystem.

Earthjustice petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to protect the Arctic’s Inuit people, whose human rights are violated by climate change. The case changed global dialogue about human rights by identifying it as a human rights issue.

Earthjustice has worked for years to preserve and restore the Sacramento Delta, which has been the scene of epic water battles, putting its wildlife in the crosshairs.