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COP27: At the Climate Justice Pavilion, Finally a Home

First-ever environmental justice presence in the UN conference’s official “Blue Zone”

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

A bird researcher guides her horse along a grass bank in Montana.

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In Sackett v. EPA, the U.S. Supreme Court Could Decide What Waters and Wetlands the Clean Water Act Protects

A decision is likely in early 2023.

Walter Echo-Hawk, a highly regarded Native Rights lawyer and Pawnee Tribal member, stands on his land.

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Rigged No More

One day, Pawnee Tribal member Walter Echo-Hawk came upon a worrying scene. Next to his home, oil and gas workers were surveying for fracking.

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 Mack LR Electric garbage truck operated by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

Let’s Not Waste California’s Opportunity to Be the Nation’s Leader in Electric Refuse Trucks

Father supervising his teenage kids when preparing food at home on an electric rangetop appliance.

Why Stoves Just Became a Kitchen Table Topic in America

A wind turbine at the Twin Groves Wind Farm outside of Bloomington, Illinois.

One of the Most Important Agencies Overseeing U.S. Energy Faces Deadlock

Charging an electric car at home before a family trip in Washington state.

Electric vehicles are not just the wave of the future, they are saving lives today.

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

$Navajo community leader Daniel Tso speaks out against fracking at a Bureau of Land Management meeting that was required under the National Environmental Policy Act. The law gives communities a chance to speak out against projects that will impact them.$

The People’s Environmental Law: National Environmental Policy Act

Brazilian politician Marina Silva has called for her country to move rapidly toward clean energy.

She Grew up in the Amazon, and Now She’s Fighting For Its Life

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.

An expansive view of the Bull Mountains in Montana, framed by a blue sky with white clouds and flowering grassland.

This Coal Mine Has Been Called a “Den of Thievery.” Why Is It Still Operational?

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?

An oil drilling ship sits anchored in the Gulf of Mexico. The Inflation Reduction Act reinstates a sale of 80 million offshore acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling.

Millions of Acres of Ocean Are About to Go on Sale to Oil and Gas Companies—But We Have Legal Tools to Fight Back

Biodiversity

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

A brightly colored orange and black monarch butterfly alights on a plant with small white flowers.

Fighting on Behalf of the Species We Know and Love

Red knots, ruddy turnstones, dunlin and semipalmated sandpipers coming through the Delaware Bay near Fortescue, New Jersey, on May 23, 2022.

What a Shorebird Can Teach Us About the Biodiversity Crisis

How We Helped Bison Make a Huge Comeback

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.

Sockeye salmon race through the Alagnak River in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed.

A Huge Win for Alaska’s Salmon: EPA Says No to Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Northern Minnesota.

We Just Protected a Pristine Midwest Wilderness from Mining

A humpback whale breaches in Seymour Canal with a backdrop of Mt. Sumdum in Southeast Alaska.

This Dreamy Alaskan Rainforest is a Buffer Against Climate Change

Stop Oil Drilling in the Everglades

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.

Particulate air monitors in use in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana.

Why Your Air Quality Matters and How You Can Fix It

Several white cranes hanging out in the wetlands of South Carolina's Kiawha Island. There are trees in the background. Wetlands like these will be protected by the Clean Water Act's updated rule.

Biden Strengthens Protections for Thousands of Nation’s Waterways

This photo provided by the executive director of Equity Legal Services in spring 2022 shows the pervasive flooding in Centreville. Equity Legal Services is one of several organizations representing residents in a legal challenge to address the sanitation

One Year Later and Still Waiting for Change

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.