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How Hawaiʻi’s Youth Advocates are Fighting for Hawaiʻi’s Future

As the climate crisis threatens their land, food, and traditions, 14 youth advocates took the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation to court to spur climate action.

Map of wetlands most in danger after the Sackett v. EPA ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Wetlands Most in Danger After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sackett v. EPA Ruling

See where wetlands are most at risk and where wetlands have the strongest protections from the law

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Little Blue: A Broken Promise

A community was promised a recreational dream. Instead, they got a toxic nightmare. This is their battle against coal ash, a toxic waste polluting hundreds of similar communities across America.

Drinking water is one of the most common routes of exposure to PFAS.

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Breaking Down Toxic PFAS

What PFAS are, why they’re harmful, and what we can do to protect ourselves from them.

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.

The Biggest Climate Spending Bill Ever Just Turned One. Here’s What It Has Achieved.

Transmission lines and utility poles are silhouetted at sunset against a darkening sky.

What’s Holding Us Back from a Clean Energy Transition? We Don’t Have Enough Power Lines.

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

Adrian Martinez, photographed in Los Angeles, California.

Meet the Environmental Attorney Who Wants to Electrify Everything on Wheels

Justice-centered Movement

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

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

Demonstrators protest for climate justice, human rights, and the end of fossil fuels during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

COP27: At the Climate Justice Pavilion, Finally a Home

This house stood on the St. Rosalie Plantation grounds until it was torn down in the 1940s.

An Oil Company Planned to Bulldoze Black History. This Community Fought Back.

Rainbow smelt, whitefish, and trout are also plentiful in the Kuskokwim.

Donlin Gold Mine Jeopardizes a Way of Life in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

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.

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

Too Sacred To Drill

A deep water drill ship anchored in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast in 2021.

Let’s Not Sign Up for 70 More Years of Offshore Oil Drilling

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

The sun rises over Matagorda Bay in Texas.

A Fossil Fuel Company Wants to Dig Up a Superfund Site in Texas. What Could Go Wrong?

Biodiversity

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

Grizzly 399 and three of her cubs walk down Pilgrim Creek Road in Grand Teton National Park.

The Endangered Species Act at 50

A smaller bird with bright yellow cheeks sitting on a bare branch.

Meet the Texas Bird that is a Bulwark for Biodiversity

A California spotted owl perches on a tree

Protecting the Sierra Species

A sockeye salmon in Little Redfish Lake Creek. Oncorhynchus nerka. Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho.

Removing Four Dams Could Save These Wild Salmon from Extinction

Safeguard Lands & Waters

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

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Northern Minnesota.

We Just Protected a Pristine Midwest Wilderness from Mining

A river with wildflowers growing next to it.

In Big Win for Arctic, Government Cancels Illegal Oil Leases in Alaska

A large wood shingled building with an angled roof in the woods.

Where a Logging Camp Once Stood, a Center for Healing Takes Root

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.

Millions of Americans rely on the Clean Water Rule to protect their drinking water sources. Additionally, the 2015 Clean Water Rule protects streams and wetlands that help reduce flooding and filter pollution.

The Supreme Court Has Severely Weakened Clean Water Protections. Here’s How We’ll Fight Back.

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Alabama Residents Win Sewage Settlement Under Civil Rights Law

One Tribe’s Fight to Protect the Great Lakes

The Right To Breathe

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.