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Republican AGs attack Biden’s EPA for pursuing environmental discrimination cases

By Shirley Hao | April 18, 2024 |

Debbie Chizewer, Managing Attorney, Midwest Office: “I think it is a perversion of our civil rights laws to say otherwise, to say that you can’t account for these past harms by creating policies that protect communities that are disproportionately harmed.”

A Pair of Supreme Court Cases About Fisheries Management Could Put Important Protections at Risk

By Earthjustice | January 16, 2024 |

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

What you need to know about Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce

Law Clerk Program

By Shirley Hao | January 8, 2024 |

Earthjustice welcomes summer law clerks who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Only students who are currently enrolled in law school are eligible to apply.

Energy cases to watch in 2024

By Shirley Hao | January 2, 2024 |

Moneen Nasmith, Senior Attorney: “What we really want FERC to be doing is talking about these emissions in a way that truly indicates that they understand how bad a project may be for the climate.”

Here’s What to Expect From the Supreme Court This Term

By Sambhav Sankar | September 26, 2023 |

United States Supreme Court (front row L-R) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, (back row L-R) Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pose for their official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court has begun a new term after Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially added to the bench in September.

Recent environmental rulings from the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority have revealed a dangerous agenda, but we still have strong legal tools to protect people and the planet.

New EPA Rule Will Reduce Tons of Cancer-Causing Chemical Emissions from Plants

By Zahra Ahmad | April 9, 2024 |

John Beard, Robert Taylor, Sharon Lavigne and Harry Joseph, left to right, speak to fellow activists from "Cancer Alley" to call on President Biden to declare a state of emergency in St. James Parrish, La., during a protest outside the White House on Oct. 25, 2022. The procession of activists carried photographs of fellow community members who died because of the toxic impact of fossil fuels.

The updates will reduce more than 6,000 tons of the nation’s most harmful air pollution, including the carcinogens ethylene oxide and chloroprene

50 Landmark Cases

By Shirley Hao | September 15, 2021 |

Map of the United States, showing locations of many of Earthjustice's landmark cases.

See 50 of our proudest accomplishments that truly changed life for people and wildlife and set the stage for the world we live in now and into the future.