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Earthjustice sues to protect the last farmland and open space in the city of San Jose, CA.

Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund filed for judgment in a suit against the U.S. Department of Interior, charging that Interior's 1999 regulation that allows coal companies to undermine homes and parklands is illegal.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service declared that it will forego listing any species under the Endangered Species Act as either threatened or endangered in 2001, unless it is ordered to do so by a court or in an emergency.

A settlement that will help strengthen air pollution permit regulations is a great step in the right direction.

Federal District Court Judge Samuel King has issued a ruling declaring that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is also illegally failing to protect the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal from the impacts of two other local fisheries, the lobster fishery and the portion of the bottomfish fishery operating in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Groups file petition to urge EPA action and notice their intent to sue

Golf Course Development Called 'Sprawl' not Smart Growth

A Federal Court of Appeals overturned a land swap in involving more than 1,700 acres of federal land that would have been used as the site of a controversial regional garbage dump in the Southern California desert.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the heart of the Clean Air Act, which requires national air quality standards that protect the public health. At issue are 1997 national air quality standards for particles and ozone.

Earthjustice on the passing of David Brower.