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Together with our clients, we’re wielding the power of the law across 700 legal matters to protect people and our planet. With deep gratitude, we are pleased to share highlights of this work, which is made possible by partners like you.

The Roadless Rule has protected millions of acres of U.S. public lands for a generation

A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

Agriculture Department initiates process targeting bedrock conservation policy that protects 45 million acres of national forests

Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Comments also support protections for mature trees

These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.

The Organized Village of Kasaan is fighting alongside other Southeast Alaska tribes and forest advocates to defend the Tongass National Forest.

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “There is no emergency … that is just part of the grift.”

At least half a million say ‘No’ in initial round of public comment

Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forest

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

Our teams in Bozeman, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, have spent decades fighting to defend the web of life, to protect people’s health, and to advance a just transition to clean energy. We’re pleased to share highlights of our progress, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Clearcutting. Drilling. Overfishing. The Trump administration is selling out our public lands to profiteers.

Environmental groups welcome needed action on old-growth, urge future action on mature forests

“Congress should support real solutions like the Community Protection and Wildfire Resiliency Act that put the safety and needs of communities over the timber industry’s profits.”

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a rollback of the Roadless Rule