Such citizen suits serve as an essential backstop — and often a last resort — for communities when government regulators fail ...

Samoan council of chiefs and community groups seek to protect over 31 million acres of ocean from destructive mining activity ...

On Wednesday, conservation groups sued to overturn a Trump administration rule that leaves threatened wildlife with no certain, meaningful protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Read the ...

Ballot initiative threatens to undo years of hard-fought progress on pollution, raise utility rates ...

Today, Sustain South Jersey (Sustain SJ), represented by Earthjustice, sent DataOne Vineland LLC, DataOne USA LLC, Nebius Inc., and Northeast Precast LLC, along with state, regional and federal ...

For more than 50 years Earthjustice has led legal battles to protect everyone’s right to a healthy environment. But, for the past year, the Trump administration has taken a sledgehammer to those ...

Mega-warehouses can be better employers and neighbors with the Delivery Protection Act, the Clean Deliveries Act, and Intro 53 ...

Why are people interested in deep-sea mining? The deep sea holds large quantities of mineral deposits. Some of them exist in potato-sized clumps on the seafloor called “polymetallic nodules,” which ...

The ocean is inseparably intertwined with American Samoa culture and identity. Now deep-sea mining threatens it all. For the people of American Samoa, the ocean is inseparably intertwined with their ...

Earthjustice is the nation’s premier environmental law organization. We believe that everyone has the right to a healthy environment. Since our founding more than five decades ago, we’ve defended that ...

Earlier this year, 19,253 Earthjustice supporters told the Trump administration to abandon its plan to open up the ocean floor off the coast of American Samoa for deep-sea mining. We were worried that ...