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2024: A Year in Earthjustice

Earthjustice’s 213 lawyers represented 656 clients in hundreds of legal battles for our health, our wild places, and our climate. Take a look back at some of our proudest achievements in 2024 for the Earth and its people.

Children playing near the Doe Run Mining complex, of US Renco Group, in La Oroya, Peru, in 2008.

We’ve stopped the Trump administration before. And we’ll do it again.

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice, explains how we won 85% of our cases against the first Trump administration — and with your support, we'll do it again. Related article.

How Project 2025 Will Impact the Environment

The policy playbook known as Project 2025 is 900 pages, and 150 of them are about how to destroy the environment. Earthjustice’s Sam Sankar explains how the agenda would strip away our rights to clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet. Related article.

The Supreme Court, the Chevron Doctrine, and You

In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the Chevron deference doctrine, a longstanding legal principle. Earthjustice’s Sam Sankar explains the signficance of the decision. Related article.

The Dangers of Seismic Air Gun Surveys

The oil and gas industry is profiting by setting off explosions in one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. Related article.

Recent Explainers

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The Presidential Transition & The Environment

Learn about key nominees in the Trump administration's second term, and the powers they will have.

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3 Reasons to Be Hopeful About the Courts

Here’s why we remain confident that the courts are a place where we can mount an effective defense of the environment.

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Trump Is More Prepared This Time. We Are Too.

We’ll use our legal expertise to take on the Trump administration’s environmental attacks — and we’ll build on our winning record against his last administration.

100% Clean Energy

Earthjustice is using the power of the law to accelerate the shift from dirty to clean energy. More stories.

A long line of wind turbines on a tree covered mountain ridge. In this aerial view, turbines stand in a row along the top of Backbone Mountain on August 22, 2022 in Oakland, Maryland. The 70-megawatt wind farm runs along eight miles of the mountain ridge and consists of 28 Clipper 2.5 MW Liberty Turbines, each one 415-feet tall.

Two Years Ago, We Passed the Biggest Climate Spending Bill Ever. Here’s What It Has Achieved.

A man speaks into a microphone among a crowd of people holding signs for climate justice.

How This Faith Group Took on a Fight for Climate Justice and Stopped Energy Bills From Skyrocketing

Four people sit at a head table in a meeting room under a sign that says "Public Utilities Commission, with an audience in the foreground.

Want to Lower Your Power Bills and Help Your State Fight Climate Change? Here’s Who to Talk to

An offshore wind farm like this one in Rhode Island will soon help power New York City, replacing the need for new fossil fuel projects.

How We Helped an NYC Community Say No to a Dirty Gas Plant and Get Wind Power Instead

Justice-centered Movement

Earthjustice partners with communities around the country to fight for a safe, just, and healthy environment. More stories.

John Beard, Jr., is a petrochemical worker turned environmental advocate living on the frontlines of fossil fuel pollution in Port Arthur, TX.

In the Belly of the Beast

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Klamath River Dam Removal Is a Victory for Tribes

Three people in white traditional clothes stand in a green valley.

A Landmark Victory for Peace in Hawai’i’s Sacred Mākua Valley

Monaeka Flores, photographed on Inapsan Beach on Guam, where her family had ranched the land for generations.

Indigenous Islanders in Guam Take on the Military

End Fossil Fuels

Earthjustice works alongside communities impacted by coal, oil, and gas and uses the power of the law to loosen the fossil fuel industry’s destructive grip on our world. More stories.

Roishetta Sibley Ozane (left) founded The Vessel Project of Louisiana and co-directs the Gulf South Fossil Fuel Finance Hub. Robert Thompson is an Inupiat guide who has worked to protect the Arctic Refuge from oil drilling.

Our Energy Future

How Hawai‘i’s Youth Advocates are Fighting for Hawai‘i’s Future

A line of people hold a long banner with the large words, "Make Power Plants Clean Up All Their Coal Ash" in front of a skyscraper in Chicago. Many more people are holding signs behind the banner with the words " Protect Lake Michigan" and EPA: Make Power Plants Clean Up All Their Coal Ash." A woman holding up the center of the banner stands with a raised fist.

‘Do Your Job, EPA’: Stories From the Frontlines of Coal Ash

Kendall Edmo, with her two year old daughter, in the Badger-Two Medicine.

Too Sacred To Drill

Biodiversity

Earthjustice protects imperiled species and the ecosystems that support their lives — and ours. More stories.

Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park, May 19, 2020.

A New Vision for Grizzly Recovery

A bird with a black back and a white breast sits on a tan rock.

One Small Seabird Egg Offers Hope for Hawai‘i’s Biodiversity

First light strikes the summit of Mount Moran, painting the sky orange as a female grizzly wades a shallow bend in the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

“A Lens Into Their Lives”: The Grizzlies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Wolverines Gain Legal Protections to Ward off Extinction

Safeguard Lands & Waters

Earthjustice believes that humans have a moral and practical duty to defend wilderness from exploitation and destruction. More stories.

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Why We’re in Court to Protect the Great Salt Lake

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.

Mainers Send a Message to Mining Industry: “Don’t Come for Katahdin”

A large group of people hold signs for clean water in front of the Supreme Court Building.

When the Supreme Court Gutted Clean Water Protections, Local Champions Stepped Up

Parrotfish protect the coral reef ecosystem by grazing on algae that otherwise would smother the reef.

Coral Reefs Are in Trouble. Here’s Why I’m Still Hopeful.

Clean Air & Water

Earthjustice is strengthening protections for the air we breathe and the water we drink, and holding polluters accountable when they violate those protections. More stories.

Workers install new copper piping from a larger spool.

Toxic Lead Is Still Contaminating Our Drinking Water, But Change Is Coming

New Victory Will Bring Clearer Views and Cleaner Air to National Parks

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Michigan’s Residents Win Relief in One of State’s Most Polluted Regions

Andrea Vidaurre of the People Collective for Environmental Justice speaks at a rally before a California Air Resources Board public hearing to consider proposed Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation on October 27, 2022 in Sacramento California.

Fighting to Breathe: Andrea Vidaurre is Taking on the Freight Industry’s Pollution from California to Washington, D.C.

Remove Toxic Products

Earthjustice works to ensure that all people have safe workplaces and neighborhoods, have access to safe drinking water and food, and live in homes that are free of hazardous chemicals. More stories.