With a team of more than 100 legal experts on staff and more than 600 active cases, Earthjustice is holding accountable those who threaten to harm our environment and break our bedrock environmental laws.

Wastewater effluent discharge and resulting coral damage in the reef offshore of Kahekili Beach Park, Maui, Hawai‘i, on Aug. 19, 2019. (Video by Marley Rutkowski)

The clean water case of the century

What started as a local water pollution case could have disastrous repercussions for clean water across the United States. In a few weeks, Earthjustice will be at the Supreme Court fighting to maintain protections for our nation’s lakes, rivers, and oceans.

WE’RE GOING TO THE SUPREME COURT TO DEFEND CLEAN WATER!
We’re going to the Supreme Court to make sure our nation’s rivers, lakes, and oceans are protected from dirty polluters. Support this and other critical courtroom battles today!

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A waterfall in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest. (Howie Garber Photography)

The plan to clear-cut 9 million acres of old-growth forest
The Trump administration just issued a plan to slash protections for 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest, paving the way for clear-cutting ancient trees in Alaska’s cherished landscape. Earthjustice will fight back.

Dr. Ramiro Ramirez at the Eli Jackson Ranch Church and Cemetery in Texas. (Martin do Nascimento/Earthjustice)

A family’s fight against the border wall
The Jackson Chapel and Cemeteries sit directly on the proposed path of the US-Mexico border wall. Dr. Ramiro Ramirez, a plaintiff in a lawsuit to halt construction of the border wall, shows how this wall will have dire impacts for communities living along the border.

Lois Bower-Bjornson lives in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania. Her home is surrounded by well pads, compressor stations, and multiple pipelines. (Scott Goldsmith for Earthjustice)

Everything you need to know about methane
Methane traps 86 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Even though proven, low-cost solutions exist to cut this dangerous pollution, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to allow fossil fuel companies to release harmful methane emissions into our air.

One day, Pawnee Tribal member Walter Echo-Hawk stumbled upon a worrying scene. The U.S. government had approved 17 oil and gas leases on Pawnee land without consulting or even notifying the Tribal members. This is the story of how that happened, and how the Pawnee Nation fought back. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)

How the Pawnee Nation fought fracking
Five years ago, regulators approved 17 oil and gas leases on Pawnee lands without bothering to notify the Tribe. Tribal member Walter Eco-Hawk shares the story of how that happened, and how the Pawnee Nation fought back.

“[We] look forward to the next step: showing that President Trump violated the law when he dismantled Bears Ears and Grand Staircase.”

— Earthjustice attorney Heidi McIntosh on clearing a milestone in the legal battle for the future of the national monuments when a judge denied the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss the case.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

Stop an attack on our clean air
The EPA is proposing to punch a loophole in the Clean Air Act that would allow thousands of major polluters across the country to release more toxic pollution into the air. We should be doing more, not less, to protect communities from these poisons. Show your opposition to this rollback today.

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Fund communities and natural landscapes, not senseless walls
A wall is a waste of money and a distraction from the very real issues border communities face. Our border communities need funding for schools, environmental cleanup, and wildlife protection, not a divisive wall. Tell Congress to protect communities, lands, wildlife, and historic cultural sites from the border wall.

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