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.

Earthjustice and clients after the Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui case at the Supreme Court. (Melissa Lyttle for Earthjustice)

The Clean Water Act gets its day in court

Last week, Earthjustice presented oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui. Now the justices will decide whether polluters should have free rein to dump their waste into your local rivers and streams.

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Savannah Riverkeeper Tonya Bonitatibus documents pollution around the Anderson County pipeline spill in 2016. (Image courtesy of Mike Mather/SELC)

The ripple effects of the clean water case of the century
How a local Maui County water pollution case could determine whether a corporation can get away scot-free with polluting a creek in South Carolina.

Earthjustice attorney David Henkin stands in front of the Supreme Court, where he argued Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui. (Melissa Lyttle for Earthjustice)

Our lawyer’s big moment at the Supreme Court
Earthjustice attorney David Henkin traded his usual Hawaiian shirt for a tailored suit as he headed to the Supreme Court last week to protect everyone’s right to clean water.

Waste floats on the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona, in 1972. Congress passed the Clean Water Act that year, establishing federal protection for all waters in the U.S. (Charles O'Rear/National Archives)

What the Trump administration is doing to your water
The administration is making way for the Dirty Water Rule, which could bury your nearby stream with mining debris or allow companies to flush toxic byproducts into a river or bay.

Right whales are on the brink of extinction, pushed closer by a rash of recent and unprecedented deaths. (NOAA NMFS Northeast Regional Office/CC BY 2.0)

A win for the Earth’s rarest whale
One of the most endangered whales in the ocean scored a victory in court. A federal court has barred the use of dangerous entangling nets in vital North Atlantic right whale habitat.

“It is the largest national forest, and I’m going to keep it that way.”

— Rebekah Sawers, Alaskan Native Yupik and a mother, a daughter, and an aunt. Indigenous women from Southeast Alaska traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for the Tongass National Forest and the Roadless Rule.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

Stop the clearcutting of our wild forests in Alaska
The timber industry has requested protections be removed for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. We need your help to stop the clearcutting of countless century-old trees.

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Reject a proposal to weaken crucial clean air protections
The oil and gas industry is leaking millions of metric tons of methane pollution along with toxic chemicals into the air. Act now to protect our climate and communities.

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