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.

 
 
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With your extraordinary support this year, our lawyers were in courts across the country, fighting for our planet. (Earthjustice graphic)
What you helped us do this year
2019 was not an easy year, especially for the climate. But the biggest story of the year, which you were part of, is that in one court ruling after another, the environment won.
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Our promise to you is that we will never stop fighting for the people and the planet. In 2020 and beyond we are committed to taking on the most important environmental challenges. Help us fund these fights today and your gift will be matched $1-for-$1!
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A North Atlantic right whale swims with its calf. (Photo courtesy of NOAA)
How whale poop helps the planet
Whales are amazing creatures. They could also be a high-impact solution to combating climate change.
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Austin Nuñez is Chairman of the San Xavier District, Tohono O’odham Nation, which joined with the Hopi and Pascua Yaqui Tribes to fight a proposed open-pit copper mine on sacred sites in Arizona. (Mamta Popat for Earthjustice)
Tribes halt major copper mine on ancestral lands
A judge ruled in favor of three tribes, the Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Hopi Tribe, halting a mile-wide open-pit copper mine in Arizona that would have buried dozens of sacred sites under toxic waste.
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How one company almost got away with draining the Mojave Desert. (Illustration by Scott Womack)
How one company almost got away with draining the Mojave Desert
A company hatched a plan to wring contaminated water from the desert and sell it to the residents of suburban Los Angeles. It almost worked — until Earthjustice stepped in.
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Hope Grosse stands next to the Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster, Pennsylvania, where PFAS-laden firefighting foam poisoned local streams. (Matt Stanley for Earthjustice)
Toxic tap water
A military base in Warminster, Pennsylvania, was leaking toxic chemicals known as PFAS into the local groundwater. Hope Grosse went to court, and stopped the military in its tracks.
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“I will say for Earthjustice, we will remember 2019 as a year of phenomenal legal victories. In my 20 years here, I’ve never seen a winning streak quite like this one.”
— Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen discusses the incredible progress we’ve made over the past year, and the greatest challenges — and opportunities — we face.
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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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