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.

Volunteer wildlife carer Minka Macaule, 14, feeds an injured koala joey at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park in the Parndana region on January 08, 2020 on Kangaroo Island, Australia. The Kangaroo Wildlife Park positioned on the edge of the fire zone has been treating and housing close to 30 koala's a day. Almost 100 army reservists have arrived in Kangaroo Island to assist with clean up operations following the catastrophic bushfire that killed two people and burned more than 155,000 hectares on Kangaroo Island on 4 January. At least 56 homes were also destroyed. Bushfires continue to burn on the island, with firefighters pushing to contain the blaze before forecast strong winds and rising temperatures return. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Australia is on fire and its government is blowing smoke

The devastating fires in Australia have killed at least 25 people, burned 20 million acres, and wiped out a billion native animals. Australia’s prime minister says the country is doing enough to combat the climate crisis — but the country is now the world’s number one exporter of both coal and gas.

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Linda Garcia organized with community members, environmental activists, and union leaders to prevent a massive oil export terminal from being built in her hometown of Vancouver, Washington. (Thomas Patterson for Earthjustice)

Stories from the frontlines of climate justice
The climate crisis is a product of an unjust system that prioritizes profits above all else. All too often, the communities least responsible for creating this crisis are the ones suffering from it the most. Our new storytelling series seeks to elevate the stories of people pushing for a just future and livable climate for all.

Residents of Fort Myers, Florida, wade through a flooded neighborhood after Hurricane Irma in 2017. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

How Floridians are tackling climate change together
Dealing with the whiplash effects from climate change — from sea level rise to sunny day flooding — is Florida’s new normal. Yet for all these planetary distress signals, government leadership is largely absent. Florida communities are relying on local people power to strengthen climate resilience.

Homes in Washington, D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood were condemned to clear room for a highway in the 1960s. The community fought back. (Image courtesy of Brig Cabe/D.C. Public Library)

The story behind the people’s environmental law
In the 1960s, homes in Brookland, a predominantly black and brown neighborhood in Washington, D.C., were condemned to clear room for a highway. The community fought back, which led to Congress unanimously passing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The law has become one of the most important tools to help uplift the people’s environmental voice. Now, it’s under attack.

An explosion and fire occurred at the TPC Group chemical plant in Port Neches, Texas, on November 27, 2019. (U.S. Chemical Safety Board)

The war on public health and the environment
Three years into the Trump administration, the attacks on our health and environment are still pouring out of D.C. at a record pace. The motivation is simple: prioritizing corporate profits over the safety and health of people. Earthjustice continues to battle for healthier communities and a healthier world in 2020.

“We’re going to court because we don’t want this to be the last generation of Floridians to ever see a wild Florida panther.”

— Earthjustice attorney Bonnie Malloy on filing a lawsuit to protect endangered Florida panthers from a road expansion project.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

Don’t let this administration undo the people’s environmental law
When a government wants to build a toxic waste incinerator in your neighborhood, bulldoze homes to build smog-producing highways, or run pipelines through ancestral Native American lands, a federal law gives you the right to find out and fight back. That law is the National Environmental Policy ACT (NEPA), and the fossil fuel industry cronies in the Trump administration just announced plans to gut NEPA’s protections.

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Protect the Western Arctic from oil and gas expansion
The Western Arctic Reserve is the largest tract of wild and undisturbed public land in the United States. Now this administration wants to open up millions of acres of the reserve to oil and gas development.

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