City Agrees to End Injustice With a New Sewer System

A group of citizens, represented by Earthjustice, will finally get justice after the city of Rochelle, Georgia, agreed to put an end to the raw sewage bubbling into their backyards.

The Cleanup Buck Should Stop With Polluters

Earthjustice is challenging the EPA’s 30-year-long failure to require that polluters pay for the cleanup of their own messes, rather than stick taxpayers with the often-hefty bill.

Report Finds That Coal Ash
Lodges Deep Into Lungs

Simply living near a coal ash dump—where the leftover muck from burning coal resides—can harm your health thanks to toxic dust that travels from the dump to your lungs, finds a new report.

Toledo’s Green Slime Is
All Too Familiar in Florida

Recently, people in Toledo, Ohio, got a taste of the water problems that regularly plague Florida after a toxic algae outbreak left about a half a million Ohioans without a municipal drinking water supply. The likely culprit: agricultural pollution.

EPA Fails to Cut Carbon From U.S. Aviation Fleet

Aviation is one of the fastest-growing sources of carbon pollution, yet the federal EPA has let the years fly by without pushing airlines to curb their climate change emissions. An Earthjustice lawsuit seeks to bring the agency back down to earth.

Big Island Rejects More GMOs

Farmers and environmental groups represented by Earthjustice are fighting the biotech industry’s attempts to open the Big Island to increased genetically engineered (GE) farming. The Hawaiian Islands are already a hotbed for experimental crops that increase pesticide use and threaten contamination of non-GE crops.

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A Sea of Riches A rare spectacle of ocean abundance—swarming whales, sea lions, birds and anchovies—is rejuvenating for Earthjustice   READ MORE

Clean Up Our Carbon Nation

The EPA has proposed a plan to limit carbon from existing power plants. Now it’s time to make it stronger.

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