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A Fossil Fuel Company Tried to Put a Dirty Gas Plant on a Beautiful Coastline. It Failed.

Lilian Bello spoke out against a gas-fired power plant in Oxnard, Calif., that would have joined three existing gas plants on the city’s beach.

Lilian Bello in front of the Mandalay Generating Station in Oxnard, CA. The location was set to be the site of the Puente Power Station, a proposed gas power plant.

Community members fill a West Virginia Public Service Commission hearing in 2017 to oppose the sale of the Pleasants Power Plant.

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

In public utility commissions, Earthjustice is helping communities push for clean, affordable electricity for all.

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The Fight for Solar

Much of our nation’s energy policy is crafted at the state level by public utility commissions. In these venues, good lawyers — and customers like you — can make an outsized impact.

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.

An aerial view of homes and the blue ocean in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

The Fight for a Clean Energy Transition in Puerto Rico

A New York City MTA electric bus at a charging station on the West Side Highway at 42 St.

How the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is Helping Us Achieve a Zero-Emissions Future

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.

"Women have to be the fiercest," says Maria Lopez-Nuñez. She is fighting for environmental justice in Newark, NJ's Ironbound neighborhood.

These Women Environmental Leaders Are Fighting For Their Communities

A wide photo of a beach, surrounded by a green valley in Hawaii.

Hawaiʻi’s Valleys Get Permanent Protection from Damaging Military Training

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.

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.

How We’re Pushing Colorado to Make Buildings Climate-Friendly

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

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

Biodiversity

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

Wolverines Gain Legal Protections to Ward off Extinction

Fossil Fuel-Friendly Ruling Endangers the Last Gulf of Mexico Whales

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

How a Little Bird is Helping Earthjustice Defend Biodiversity

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.

A woman and two children walk on a large beach with smaller pools of water.

We’re Suing to Save the Great Salt Lake From Going to Dust

A landscape of a grassy plain with a dozen bison in the middle of the photo.

In Montana, Wild Bison Are Back, and an Entire Ecosystem Is Healing

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.

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.

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Alabama Residents Win Sewage Settlement Under Civil Rights Law

One Tribe’s Fight to Protect the Great Lakes

Dennis Chestnut teaches his grandson, Horus Plaza, how to test the water quality of the Watts Branch of the Anacostia River in Marvin Gaye Park in Washington, D.C. in May 2021.

An Infamously Dirty River Is Coming Back to Life Thanks to Community Activism

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.