Earthjustice
Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. We bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations, coalitions and communities.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Tuesday, August 25, 2020 Lawsuit Fights Trump Administration Plan to Open 18 Million Acres of Western Arctic to Oil and Gas Drilling Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration over its plan to allow oil and gas drilling on 18.7 million acres on the western side of America’s wild Arctic, known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (Reserve). The Bureau of Land Management’s final “environmental impact statement”... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, August 24, 2020 Lawsuit Aims to Block Drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging the Trump administration’s decision to allow oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Bureau of Land Management’s plan for drilling in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge would cause irreparable damage... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Groups File Legal Challenge to Stop “Bomb Trains” Earthjustice filed a legal challenge today on behalf of several groups against a dangerous federal rule that would allow trains to travel the country filled with an unprecedented amount of explosive liquefied natural gas. The liquefied natural gas from just one rail tank car—without even... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, August 12, 2020 Judge Grants Earthjustice Permission to Intervene in Michigan Pipeline Fight Today an administrative law judge granted Bay Mills Indian Community the right to intervene in the ongoing pipeline fight uniting Tribes, environmental groups and community members against oil giant Enbridge. The decision will allow Bay Mills to be a party in the contested case process evaluating... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, July 20, 2020 Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Order to Open Public Lands to Coal Leasing A coalition including states, conservation organizations, and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe today launched a new challenge against the Trump administration’s decision to open millions of acres of public lands for new coal leasing and mining. That 2017 decision ended an Obama-era leasing moratorium... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, July 16, 2020 Trump Administration Unlawfully Rescinded Protections Against Methane Waste, Court Rules In a resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment, late yesterday the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California invalidated the Trump Administration’s rollback of the Obama-era Waste Prevention Rule. This ruling means that the Waste Prevention Rule goes... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, July 08, 2020 9th Circuit Upholds Endangered Species Protections for Yellowstone Grizzlies The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the Montana District Court’s opinion that reinstated Endangered Species Act protections for the Yellowstone region’s grizzly bear population. The decision spares the grizzlies from plans for trophy hunts in the states of Wyoming and Idaho. Earthjustice... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, July 06, 2020 Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline to Shut Down Owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) must halt operations while the government conducts a full-fledged analysis examining the risk DAPL poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, a federal judge ruled today. The court decision delivered a hard-fought victory to the Tribe, which has been engaged... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, June 22, 2020 Earthjustice Statement on Final Court Decision in Klamath River Water Rights Case The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear a case brought by Klamath Basin irrigators, Baley v. United States, settling for good the question of whether reduced water deliveries to Klamath Basin agricultural producers in 2001 constituted a “taking” of private property under the Fifth Amendment. “... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, May 26, 2020 Court Strikes Down Trump Administration’s Sage-grouse Directive, Canceling Hundreds of Oil and Gas Leases On Friday, the U.S. District Court in Montana struck down the basis for the Trump administration’s massive oil and gas leasing plans on more than a million acres of public lands in key habitat for sage-grouse, an iconic bird species of the Western United States. The Trump administration attempted... Read more |