fiscal year 2025
annual report
Forging Ahead
fighting back
A Letter from the President and Board Chair
We are facing an onslaught, but we do not face it alone. The arrival of the second Trump administration has brought a wave of brutal attacks on the environment. Where power plants were previously held to pollution limits, the EPA is now granting exemptions over email. Where federal funds have been allocated to solutions for clean air, water, and energy, Congress and the executive branch are colluding to claw those investments back. Even the most settled law and science — including the basis for all greenhouse gas regulations — is not safe. Our government’s ability to protect us from climate, health, and biodiversity crises is being systematically undermined. Our response has to be just as relentless. Unprecedented assaults require innovative defenses, like our first-ever class action lawsuit. We’re investing in new resources, like an enforcement team to help communities wield existing legal protections and hold polluters accountable. And again and again, we’re doing what Earthjustice was built to do: showing up in court for our clients and winning. The Trump administration’s onslaught of lawless actions is creating opportunities for us to prevail even in hostile courts, because the facts are on our side. As the barrage continues, bringing those facts to light demands more from us. But Earthjustice never works alone. Our clients and partners are bringing the fight — and as you’ll see in the pages of this report, they are lighting the way in cities, in states, and beyond the borders of the U.S. These achievements are possible because of your support for Earthjustice and our vision. Pushing back is only half the battle. We don’t have more time to lose, so we have to keep forging ahead toward a future with a healthy environment for all. We can still imagine that future — because we can imagine getting there with you.
Our response has to be just as relentless. Unprecedented assaults require innovative defenses, like our first-ever class action lawsuit. We’re investing in new resources, like an enforcement team to help communities wield existing legal protections and hold polluters accountable. And again and again, we’re doing what Earthjustice was built to do: showing up in court for our clients and winning. The Trump administration’s onslaught of lawless actions is creating opportunities for us to prevail even in hostile courts, because the facts are on our side. As the barrage continues, bringing those facts to light demands more from us.
But Earthjustice never works alone. Our clients and partners are bringing the fight — and as you’ll see in the pages of this report, they are lighting the way in cities, in states, and beyond the borders of the U.S. These achievements are possible because of your support for Earthjustice and our vision. Pushing back is only half the battle. We don’t have more time to lose, so we have to keep forging ahead toward a future with a healthy environment for all. We can still imagine that future — because we can imagine getting there with you.
Thank you, Abigail Dillen Stuart Clarke President Chair of the Board of Trustees
Honorary Life Trustees
Earthjustice Council
Board of Trustees
Client List
Toward Climate Leadership Abroad
Toward Justice for Communities
Toward Progress in the States
Against Destruction of the Web of Life
Against Public Lands Sell-Off
Against Government Dismantlement
Against 'Emergency' Deregulation
Against Climate Surrender
Fighting Back
Courts Take Center Stage
Intro
Earthjustice attorney Jasmine Jennings, left, and Gabriel Meléndez Cardona, a director with the human rights group El Puente, prepare to meet with congressional staffers about the unlawful expansion of gas infrastructure in Puerto Rico. Matt Roth for Earthjustice.
Towards Climate Leadership Abroad
Towards Justice for Communities
Towards Progress in the States
The answer, however, isn’t to stay out of the courts. When we argue a case — win or lose — we are putting the facts forward and seeding our vision beyond court chambers, breaking through the many echo chambers of our divided nation. And we are still winning much of the time, moving courts to put the only boundaries on this administration to date. We win before judges who span a broad philosophical spectrum. In March, the famously conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with us when it upheld a ruling that Texas and Louisiana needed better plans for managing interstate air pollution. And in one of our major victories against the first Trump administration, a George W. Bush-appointed judge restored endangered species protections to gray wolves across 44 states, shielding them from hunting and trapping. At the same time, there’s no denying that the right-wing bloc of the Supreme Court is reshaping our legal landscape in ways that make it harder for the government to regulate and for public interest litigants to secure meaningful relief. That’s why we tripled the size of our Strategic Legal Advocacy team over the past year. That small team of appellate specialists is partnering with our program and regional teams. Together, they are helping the broader environmental community navigate the Court and its minefield of bad decisions. In just one example from this year, the team drafted a brief that convinced the Court to deny certiorari in a case in which Exxon asked the justices to overrule the precedent that citizens may sue polluters who violate their permits and harm the citizens’ health.
We face an increasingly radical Supreme Court. And we are in a perilous moment for the rule of law.
The courts remain one of the best tools to protect the environment from attack.
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COURTS TAKE CENTER STAGE
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It’s not all about the Supreme Court
of cases are decided by lower courts
The Supreme Court hears fewer than 1% of federal cases —99% are resolved in lower courts, where some of the most qualified and fair-minded judges in history currently preside.
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When judges have ruled on legal challenges to Trump's second-term actions, they've blocked them 60% of the time*
Courts are checking Trump
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138 actions partially or fully blocked
93 actions left in effect
Source: Associated Press lawsuit tracker
* As of Oct. 13, 2025
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We’ve opened nearly triple the number of legal matters compared to the same period under Trump 45. We’ve also tripled the size of our Strategic Legal Advocacy Team to advise lawyers across the environmental community.
We are well-positioned
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When we file lawsuits, we bring attention to injustices in a competitive media environment.
Our lawsuits drive public discourse
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print and digital articles mentioning the Everglades detention center
Earthjustice is defending the progress we have made against a presidential administration that wants to take us back to an era before environmental laws. This is a fast-moving fight, operating at an entirely new scale. We have already opened 115 legal actions against the Trump administration in its first nine months. That’s nearly triple the number over the same period of Trump’s first term. We were ready for this. And we are not backing down.
Earthjustice Vice President of Policy and Legislation Raúl García speaks at the House Triangle during a fly-in defending scientific integrity in the federal government. Melissa Lyttle for Earthjustice
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fighting
The gains we won include transformative funding that was on track to electrify transportation, buildings, and even heavy industry; improve health from reduced pollution; and help all U.S. households participate in climate solutions. The Trump administration wants to claw back all that progress, starting with the funding. Earthjustice has filed four lawsuits against federal agencies that are reneging on paying grant money they had awarded to our clients. The government promised these grants to farmers and community groups working on climate solutions and fixing environmental harms at the local level. So far, we have succeeded in getting a preliminary injunction for our clients in one of the cases, requiring the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate grants while litigation proceeds on the merits. In a fifth case, we sued the administration for illegally freezing billions of dollars to build a national network of electric vehicle charging stations that can deliver thousands of good jobs and ensure charging station access for all drivers. On the regulatory front, we’re working with a coalition of national environmental groups and partners to collectively combat attacks against the EPA’s historic endangerment finding. The finding transformed the legal landscape in 2009 by declaring that greenhouse gases are air pollutants that endanger the public and directs the government to set limits on climate pollution. Earthjustice supporters submitted more than 72,000 public comments to the EPA, supplementing more than 500 technical and legal comments from across the coalition. Earthjustice will utilize every tool available to fight climate change erasure. We can’t afford to wait.
The presidential election put a climate denier in the White House, but it did not change the reality of the climate crisis. Trump’s hard pivot from clean energy toward fossil fuels will only make the situation more urgent. We now have a massive fight on our hands to preserve the incredible progress we’ve made over the past several years to address climate change.
FIGHTING BACK
Against
Defending Electric Vehicle Charging Networks
Although all 50 states have submitted NEVI plans for approval, some have not yet announced awards for chargers at specific sites.
Defending Climate and Environmental Justice Initiatives
$1.5B for urban restoration such as community forestry.
$2.8B to install electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles on major corridors across all 50 states.
$2.7B for expanding tribes’ traditional foods programs, and other sustainable agriculture.
$1B for building stronger housing and climate resilience projects.
$1B for environmental justice programs like indoor air quality remediation.
$9B total funding
$1B for environmental justice programs like indoor air quality remediation
$2.7B for expanding tribes’ traditional foods programs, and other sustainable agriculture
$2.8B to for electric vehicle charging stations.
We are in court to save U.S. investments in a fairer climate future.
States with no funding awards issued yet Major corridors
Source: National Electric Vehicle (NEVI) Awards Dashboard, EV States Clearinghouse, 7/21/25. Alternative Fuel Corridors, U.S. DOT. Transportation for America analysis of USASpending.gov data retrieved 03/01/25 and IIJA FHWA National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure formula fund apportionment estimates. Puerto Rico funding from FHWA NEVI Formula Program Status of Funds, 2/6/25.
Source: Inflation Reduction Act USDA, 8/29/25, and EPA, 6/23/25, grant funding data from USAspending.gov. We used Microsoft Copilot to simplify the grant funding into four categories.
CLIMATE SURRENDER
Earthjustice attorney Jasmine Jennings, left, and Gabriel Meléndez Cardona, a director with the human rights group El Puente, prepare to meet with congressional staffers about the unlawful expansion of gas infrastructure in Puerto Rico. Matt Roth for Earthjustice
$6.2B for climate and environmental initiatives.
INTERACTIVE MAP
On his first day in office, Trump issued an order declaring a “national energy emergency” to boost fossil fuel production and fast-track projects, explicitly excluding clean energy. The United States is already the world’s largest producer of oil and gas and largest exporter of gas — to be clear, there is no energy emergency. Earthjustice is fighting back against one of the most egregious abuses of emergency powers. Under the guise of “national security,” the Trump administration allowed dozens of coal-fired power plants to bypass pollution limits set in the EPA’s 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. These exemptions will allow corporate polluters to release toxic substances known to damage children’s brain development, trigger asthma attacks, and cause cancer. We filed a lawsuit challenging this attempt to circumvent the Clean Air Act. By the EPA’s own calculations, the pollution limits would prevent at least $300 million in costs from hospital visits, missed workdays, and premature deaths over a 10-year period. We won’t let the Trump administration disregard the law’s requirements and undercut life-saving pollution safeguards.
The Trump administration is using manufactured “emergencies” to sidestep the laws that protect our health and our most precious places. Earthjustice is challenging these power grabs in court.
The Trump administration is allowing dozens of coal-fired power plants to claim exemptions from pollution limits. Justin Merriman / Bloomberg Creative / Getty Images
In a matter of eight days this summer, Florida and the federal government partnered to hastily build an immigrant detention center in the Everglades without conducting any environmental review. Florida relied on an immigration “emergency” the governor declared two years earlier to commandeer county property for this purpose and claimed that federal environmental law does not apply. Earthjustice is representing Friends of the Everglades in challenging this end-run around environmental laws. Our litigation has drawn attention to the environmental dangers this center poses in addition to its cruelty.
The case encapsulates what’s lost when rules are tossed aside needlessly:
The government is obligated to notify communities about projects that will affect them. Officials failed to notify local stakeholders, including the Miccosukee Tribe, who joined the lawsuit given the risks the project poses to their food and water supply and access to nearby lands used for traditional activities. Pictured: Betty Osceola, a member of the Tribe. Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Impacted communities must have a say in projects that could damage their health or reshape their environment. Officials sought no public comment. Polling has found a plurality of Floridians against the facility, which is projected to cost $450 million a year. Pictured: Demonstrators protest construction of the facility on June 28, 2025. Giorgio Viera / AFP via Getty Images
Thorough, science-based environmental studies are key to making decisions that consider reasonable alternatives and minimize harm. Instead, officials paved over land without any environmental review — putting Everglades wetlands and Miccosukee water supplies at risk from pollution runoff — and installing 24-hour industrial lighting that encroaches on primary habitat for critically endangered animals like the Florida panther (pictured). Art Wolfe / Getty Images
AN ‘EMERGENCY’ VS. THE EVERGLADES
‘EMERGENCY’ DEREGULATION
Earthjustice has filed several lawsuits challenging Trump’s harmful actions. Already, our legal work has forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to restore vital information to websites that farmers, researchers, and advocates rely on to adapt to droughts, floods, and other climate-linked risks and learn about funding for climate resiliency projects. The Constitution obligates the president to ensure that laws passed by Congress are faithfully executed. By gutting agencies that carry out the environmental protections Congress has mandated, Trump is abandoning his executive duties. We will continue to challenge these lawless moves in court.
A modern, functioning society requires reliable electricity, safe food, and clean air and water. Under the Trump administration, the government has undermined its own ability to provide these necessities. Good governance requires reliable information, skilled personnel, and transparent procedures — and Earthjustice is working to preserve them.
Earthjustice client Wes Gillingham knows firsthand how a farm’s survival can hinge on being prepared for the weather. In the early 2000s, three record-breaking floods devastated Gillingham’s small vegetable farm in the Catskill Mountains. By unpublishing climate data from websites, Trump’s USDA is “squashing small farmers” who need climate-smart practices to survive increasingly extreme weather, says Gillingham. Gillingham, the board president of the Northeast Organic Farming Association, rallied his organization to fight back. The board voted unanimously to join an Earthjustice lawsuit to restore the webpages because they knew we had the legal resources to win. Now that the climate data is restored, he says, farmers can once again use interactive tools to plan for changing weather patterns and extreme weather events.
Wes Gillingham, with the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, a client in Earthjustice’s successful lawsuit to restore USDA data to its website. Aristide Economopoulos for Earthjustice
Farmers fight back on climate censorship
GOVERNMENT DISMANTLEMENT
When Trump sought to reopen more than 625 million acres of protected ocean for sale to the oil and gas industry, including waters along the East, West, Alaskan, and Gulf Coasts, we challenged this illegal effort in court. Since 2018, Earthjustice has challenged every offshore oil-and-gas auction the U.S. government has held – nine in total. We have won 100 percent of our offshore drilling cases, with courts forcing the federal government to address its serial failures to protect the environment. Our litigation also stopped the Trump administration’s attempt at opening more than 300 million acres of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. Allowing fishing vessels there would have wiped out large numbers of sharks, turtles, and other marine life, wreaking havoc on one of the world’s last healthy ocean ecosystems. In Congress, we lobbied to stop sales of public lands to fund a budget shortfall and to keep new oil leasing requirements out of the reconciliation bill. Our advocacy helped strip out a portion of the bill that would have made 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale. Still, the version that passed mandates massive fossil fuel lease sales: 30 in the Gulf of Mexico and at least 15 across Alaska’s Cook Inlet, Arctic Refuge, and Western Arctic regions, along with increased coal leasing on federal lands. It also requires the Forest Service to sell 11 billion board feet of timber. These sales and any extractive projects that result must comply with laws like the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration will struggle to ensure compliance after gutting the agencies that assess environmental impact; when they break the laws, we will be there to challenge them in court.
Earthjustice is fighting efforts by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress to turn over millions of acres of public lands and waters to private industry.
The offshore oil and gas platform Esther is located near Seal Beach and operates within California state waters. A Trump administration attack on ocean protections could allow platforms to be built beyond state water boundaries across a wide swath of U.S. national waters. Mario Tama / Getty Images
PUBLIC LANDS SELL-OFF
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Earthjustice sued to stop Trump from reopening American coastal waters to new oil and gas leasing, including off Oregon. Ryan J Lane / Getty Images; Earthjustice prevailed in court against Trump’s effort to open the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. The win helps preserve habitat for sea life, like this crab. Peter Xiong / U.S. FWS; The Trump administration has put the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in its crosshairs, once again. Florian Schulz / protectthearctic.org; We are ready to mount a vigorous defense of the Boundary Waters wilderness in Northern Minnesota from removals of protections from mining. Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice; Glen “Stormy” Hamar with the Organized Village of Kasaan in Alaska, stands in the Tongass, the largest roadless national forest. The Roadless Rule has protected these regions for decades, and Earthjustice has vigorously defended the rule. David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice.
Earthjustice has used the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to protect wolverines, gray wolves, California sea otters, Pacific Northwest salmon, Florida panthers, and more. In a testament to the power of this law, 99% of listed species have avoided extinction. The Trump administration proposed a rule to weaken the ESA by claiming that habitat destruction doesn’t harm fish and wildlife. That’s absurd — habitat loss is the leading driver of the biodiversity crisis. We have gone toe-to-toe with Trump before to defend wildlife protections, and we will do it again. His first administration rolled back critical ESA rules, and Earthjustice went straight to court. We succeeded in overturning many of those actions and pushed the Biden administration to restore other essential protections. We’re utilizing the power of the ESA in our lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s faulty analysis of the harms of offshore oil drilling in the Gulf. New leasing in these waters would be deadly for the Rice’s whale. Fewer than 50 of these whales remain due to lethal ship strikes and oil drilling activity. Protecting their habitat is key to averting the first documented human-caused extinction.
With 40% of all species heading toward extinction by the year 2100, we’re fighting to keep our web of life from unraveling. The Trump administration, meanwhile, is trying to break our most important legal tool — the Endangered Species Act.
Grizzly 399 with a cub in Grand Teton National Park. The famous bear was killed in 2024 when it was stuck by a vehicle. Jane Dougherty / Getty Imagess
Habitat loss is the leading driver of the biodiversity crisis. We have gone toe-to-toe with Trump before to defend wildlife protections, and we will do it again.
More than Playing Defense: Driving Grizzly Recovery
Beyond protecting surviving species, we are driving recovery for their populations. Earthjustice is on the offensive to put grizzly bears in the Northern Rockies on firmer footing. Grizzly bears remain imperiled due to lethal encounters with humans and fragmented habitat that keeps Yellowstone-area bears from achieving essential connectivity with other populations. Backed by the best available science, we’re advocating for a recovery plan that bridges isolated grizzly populations to their former range in the Northern Rockies.
Source: Historical grizzly bear range (IUCN). Current occupied grizzly bear range (U.S. FWS ECOS). Grizzly bear recovery zones (U.S. FWS).
Habitat range in the 1850s
Future range expansion
Habitat range today
Grizzly corridors
Grizzly bears in the lower 48 persist in five relatively isolated ecosystems. A lack of genetic diversity puts these ‘island’ populations at risk of decline.
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Cabinet-yaak
Greater yellowstone
Bitterroot
Northern Continental divide
DESTRUCTION OF THE WEB OF LIFE
Earthjustice attorney Candice Youngblood rallies a crowd in support of electrifying Los Angeles Metro's bus fleet in time for the 2028 Olympics. Tara Pixley for Earthjustice
We continue to make progress in venues that are far from the president’s reach. Around the globe, we are helping our local partners shut down coal and gas plants. At the state level, we are advancing a clean energy transition that benefits everyone. And in communities, we are helping residents take the fight directly to polluters.
Ahead
Forging
In California, where our Right to Zero campaign began, we continue to rack up legal and legislative wins that are transforming the energy sector and serve as the north star for our deep bench of zero-emissions campaigns across the country. This includes successfully pushing for legislation to spur neighborhood-wide building electrification in 30 communities. In New York, Earthjustice is utilizing the state’s climate law to fight short-sighted gas plant proposals and to protect a groundbreaking New York City policy that cleans up climate pollution by electrifying large buildings. We successfully helped end the dated practice by which New Yorkers had to foot the $200 million bill every year to pay for new gas hook-ups for buildings. We’re also challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to cancel NYC’s landmark congestion pricing program, which is already cleaning the air and funding public transit. Beyond New York and California, we argued more than 130 matters this year in 18 other states, expanding access to cleaner — and cheaper — energy for ordinary Americans. In Colorado, our advocacy across multiple cases resulted in utilities providing over $150 million in incentives and rebates to customers to make energy efficiency and electrification upgrades, over $50 million for electric vehicles and charging, and over $30 million for rooftop
Earthjustice’s climate and clean energy work is focused on one uniting vision: a zero-emissions future that works for everyone. That’s a big goal, especially with a federal administration that’s waging an all-out war on clean energy. States, however, remain the great laboratories of our democracy, and we are making real strides there. As we show what can be done in leading states, other states — and, eventually, the federal government — have a blueprint to follow.
Progress in the States
TOWARD
forging ahead
Earthjustice policy advocate Liz Moran at work at the New York Capitol in Albany. Patrick Dodson for Earthjustice
and community solar and battery storage. In Florida, West Virginia, and Michigan, we won expansions of utility programs to help low-income households lower their bills with cleaner, more efficient energy. In Maryland, we successfully advocated for a new law that will increase clean energy sources for Marylanders and lower their energy bills.
our strategy in the states
End coal by 2030
We pursue and enforce coal plant retirements — and challenge the Trump administration's efforts to undo them.
Progress in 2024-25: CO, KY, MI, MT, WV
Wins in 2024-25: FL, CO, MI, WV, KY
We push in public utility commissions to get utilities to preserve and expand energy efficiency and demand response programs.
Expand energy efficiency
Wins in 2024-25: KY, LA, NY
We challenge proposals for new or replacement gas-fired power plants.
No new gas plants
New work in 2024-25: FL, IN, KY, LA, MI, MS, MT, NY, PA, WV
Energy-intensive data centers threaten the clean energy transition. We push for states to meet this new load with clean energy and protect billpayers.
Prevent disruption from data centers
Wins in 2024-25: WA, OR, CA, CO, NY
We fight investments that would lock in gas for decades, such as the extension of gas lines, and we make the case for electrifying buildings instead.
End gas expansion
Wins in 2024-25: WV, PA
We work to eliminate policies that favor entrenched fossil fuels over solar.
Level the playing field for solar
In 2019, New York state passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), a landmark climate law that mandates an 85% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Since then, we’ve used the law to compel climate action and shut down polluting projects. We are replicating this success in other states with laws like New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Law, Illinois’ Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, and Maryland’s Next Generation Energy Act.
New York showcases our state-level playbook: Push for a strong law, then implement it by bringing cases to court.
Our clients challenged air permits for a proposed methane gas plant in Newburgh, New York. We won a major court victory by arguing that the plant’s future emissions would be inconsistent with the CLCPA’s emissions reduction targets. The company abandoned plans for the plant for good in 2024.
We have successfully argued for fossil-fueled cryptocurrency mining operations like Greenidge Generation to be denied air permits from New York state agencies. These fights help set precedent, confirming that agencies can deny these permits based on greenhouse gas limits in the CLCPA.
When the future of NYC’s congestion pricing program was in doubt, we filed a CLCPA lawsuit on behalf of our clients, arguing that the program’s pause violated state law. We reached a successful settlement, and congestion pricing went into effect in January 2025. We are now defending the program from federal interference.
We’re working with our clients to make the CLCPA even stronger by holding the state accountable for implementing new emissions regulations. We’re also advocating for bold new laws like the Clean Deliveries Act and the Customer Savings and Reliability Act. And when other state laws like New York’s Climate Superfund Act come under attack, we’re defending them in court.
Up next in New York
From left, Kimberly Amaya, Maria Reyes, and Diego Mayen of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice in a park overlooking Long Beach, California. Stella Kalinina for Earthjustice
Justice for Communities
The new team will support communities as they fight to hold polluters accountable using “citizen enforcement” provisions in environmental laws. These provisions allow ordinary people to sue polluters when federal agencies fail to enforce the laws themselves. While we are are taking on these cases at a new scale, Earthjustice is not new to this work. Here is a selection of recent cases where our community clients took on corporations — and won.
Our work contributed to the closure of Phillips 66’s massive oil refining operations around Los Angeles. In 2020, Earthjustice represented East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice in filing a notice of intent to sue Phillips 66 for repeated violations of the Clean Air Act. The company’s petroleum refineries are in two California communities — Wilmington and Carson — suffering some of the worst air quality in the country. Phillips 66 failed to repair leaking equipment at these refineries over 600 times, resulting in high emissions of benzene, a known carcinogen. Our legal action compelled it to install better pollution controls and served as a catalyst for the passage of more stringent emissions inspection and reporting requirements. Collectively, these changes removed over 740 tons per year of toxic pollution from oil refineries in the region. Rather than retrofitting 100-year-old refineries to comply with stricter regulations and pollution controls, Phillips 66 announced it would shutter the facilities forever — a long overdue win for people in Southern California after more than a century of pollution.
client profile
Shutting down the Phillips 66 oil refinery in Southern California
As the Trump administration guts agencies charged with environmental enforcement, Earthjustice is building its own enforcement team led by a 20-year veteran of the Department of Justice.
Earthjustice represented citizens on the Big Island of Hawai‘i as they filed — and favorably settled — a citizen suit to clean up sewage from coastal waters. A sewage treatment plant was contaminating groundwater that flows into Honokōhau Harbor near Kona, fueling algal blooms and endangering a nearby reef ecosystem. The contamination was also a likely cause of the numerous local staph infections suffered by people interacting with the water. We represented Hui Mālama Honokōhau, a coalition of Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and other people who fish, gather, and play in and around the harbor but could no longer do so safely. Earthjustice’s settlement with the County of Hawai‘i will compel it to seek a Clean Water Act permit for the discharge. The county also agreed to improve its wastewater management and keep our clients informed about the progress.
Cleaning up ocean waters in Hawai‘i
Kaikea Nakachi, left, and his father, Mike, work to restore coral reefs on the island of Hawai‘i. Mike is a member of the community group Hui Mālama Honokōhau. Mike Rudenko / Liquid Cosmos Divers
The Suncor crude oil refinery’s pollution has contributed to some of the highest rates of asthma and cardiovascular disease in Colorado. It is one of the state’s greatest sources of air pollution and has plagued neighboring communities for years. Public records show that Suncor regularly violated its Clean Air Act permits, releasing benzene, carbon monoxide, and other harmful chemicals. We’ve documented over 9,000 days of air violations. So local residents banded together to take matters into their own hands. In August 2024, on behalf of GreenLatinos, the Sierra Club, and 350 Colorado, Earthjustice sued Suncor Energy. In addition to seeking immediate remediation measures, the Clean Air Act citizen suit called for hundreds of millions of dollars in civil penalties. The case is now being heard in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Fighting for clean air in Denver
Renée M. Chacon, co-founder of Womxn from the Mountain and a client in our lawsuit against Suncor Energy. Chacon is a resident of Commerce City, Colorado, and is impacted by pollution from the Suncor refinery. Carmel Zucker for Earthjustice
Climate activists demonstrate outside the Pretoria High Court against the South African government’s plans to develop 1,500 megawatts of new coal-fired electricity generation. Julia Evans
Much of that work focuses specifically on curbing the pollution from fossil fuel burning and transitioning to affordable and accessible clean energy. With the U.S. government abandoning climate leadership on the international stage, this work with partners in key countries grows more vital. One landmark win came this year in South Africa. Since 2020, we’ve supported the Centre for Environmental Rights in representing youth turning to litigation to force climate action. The youth challenged the government’s plan to add 1,500 megawatts of new coal-fired power to the country’s energy grid, asserting that the carbon dioxide emissions and pollution posed unjustifiable harms to human health and the climate. In December 2024, the High Court of South Africa held the government’s plan was invalid and unconstitutional because it had not considered the impact on children’s rights, particularly their right to a healthy environment. In addition to stopping the proposed coal buildout, the judgment sets a strong precedent. The young plaintiffs join a growing global cohort of youths who are bringing climate injustice to courts and winning.
For more than three decades, our international program has been advocating for global recognition of the right to a healthy and sustainable environment. As more nations — and the United Nations — formally acknowledge this right, we are collaborating with local partners to enforce it with strategic litigation.
Climate Leadership Abroad
Groups of African penguins waddle out of the ocean at Boulders Beach in Simon’s Town, South Africa. Earthjustice supported Biodiversity Law Centre to win a settlement closing the area around six key African penguin breeding colonies to commercial fishing for 10 years. Jacob Eukman / Getty Images
1 Advocate for Uniontown, Alabama 1 Commercial Beekeeper 1 Conservation Leader from Arizona 1 Hawai‘i Island Cultural Advocate 1 Hawai‘i Island Cultural Practitioner 1 Professor in Iowa 1 West Coast watershed/environmental advocate 2 Residents of Pennsylvania 2 Rooftop Solar Customers 3 Resident Solar Customers in Arizona 4 Residents of Hawai‘i 13 Youth Climate Champions from Hawai‘i
Clients
Cabinet Resource Group California Communities Against Toxics California Environmental Justice Alliance California Federation of Teachers California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation Californians Against Waste Foundation Californians for Pesticide Reform CalWild CAMBIO Campamento Contra las Cenizas en Peñuelas, Inc. Cape Fear River Watch Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas CATA Cathedral of Faith, COG Cathedral of Praise COGIC, International Catskill Mountainkeeper Center for Biological Diversity Center for Climate Integrity Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice Center for Environmental Health Center for Environmental Transformation Center for Farmworker Families Center for Farmworker Safety Center for Food Safety Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice Center for Science in the Public Interest Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment Central California Environmental Justice Network Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska Central Louisiana Coalition for a Clean & Healthy Environment Centreville Citizens for Change Cheek Texas Community Association Cherokee Concerned Citizens Chesapeake Bay Foundation Chesapeake Climate Action Network Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Chevak Native Village Chevak Traditional Council Chickaloon Village Traditional Council Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan Chinik Eskimo Community Chuloonawick Tribal Council Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana Citizens Campaign for the Environment Citizens Concerned About Wolf Hollow Citizens for Arsenal Accountability Citizens for Clean Air Citizens for Clean Energy Citizens Utility Board Citizens Utility Board of Illinois Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin City of Auburn, NY City of Buenos Aires, Argentina City of eThekwini (Durban), South Africa City of Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa Clark Fork Coalition Clean Air Action Network of Glens Falls Clean Air Coalition of North Whittier and Avocado Heights Clean Air Coalition of Western New York Clean Air Council Clean Cape Fear Clean Energy Group Clean Haw River Clean Power Lake County Clean Water Action Clean Wisconsin CleanAIRE NC CleanAirNow Climate + Energy Project Climate Access Fund Climate Smart Missoula Climate Solutions Coalición de Organizaciones Anti-Incineración, Inc. Coalition For A Safe Environment Coalition for Clean Air Coalition for Responsible Environmental Aggregate Mining Coalition of Communities of Color Coalition to Protect America's National Parks Colorado Latino Forum Columbia Riverkeeper Comité Caborrojeño Pro Salud y Ambiente Inc. Comite Civico del Valle Comité Dialogo Ambiental, Inc. Comité Yabucoeño Pro-Calidad de Vida, Inc. Commission Shift Committee for a Better Arvin Committee for a Better Shafter Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes Communities for a Better Environment Community Energy Project Community Inclusion & Development Alliance Community In-Power and Development Association Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety Concerned Citizens of St. John Concerned Citizens of the WMEL Water Authority Concerned Ohio River Residents Concilio de Iglesias de Puerto Rico Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes Conservancy of Southwest Florida Conservation Colorado Conservation Council for Hawai‘i Conservation Lands Foundation Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. Consumer Federation of America Cook Inletkeeper Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport Craig Tribal Association Cultivando Cultivate Kansas City
Labadie Environmental Organization Labor Council for Latin American Advancement Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Lake Maurepas Preservation Society League of Conservation Voters League of United Latin American Citizens League of Women Voters Learning Disabilities Association of America Living Rivers Louisiana Bucket Brigade Louisiana Environmental Action Network Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper LULAC Florida Lynn Canal Conservation
Rappahannock Tribe RE Sources for Sustainable Communities Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Red Fire Farm Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians Redeemer Community Partnership RENEW Wisconsin Renewable Energy Alaska Project Rewiring America Riders Alliance Ridgewood Homeowners Association Rio Grande International Study Center Rise St. James River Valley Organizing Riverkeeper, Inc. Rivers Without Borders Rock Creek Alliance Rocky Mountain Wild Rocky Mountain Wolf Project Rogue Climate Roots to Resilience Rural & Migrant Ministry Rural Coalition Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help Russell Temple C.M.E.
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A Community Voice Advance Carolina Advocates for a Cleaner Tacoma Air Alliance Houston Alaska Community Action on Toxics Alaska Institute for Justice Alaska Wilderness League Alianza Comunitaria Ambiental del Sureste Alianza Nacional de Campesinas Alliance for a Green Economy Alliance for Affordable Energy Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments American Academy of Pediatrics American Alpine Club American Beekeeping Federation American Bird Conservancy American Civil Liberties Union American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations American Federation of Teachers American Friends Service Committee American Lung Association American Prairie American Public Health Association American Rivers Amigos del Rio Guaynabo, Inc. Anacostia Riverkeeper Anacostia Watershed Society Animal Legal Defense Fund Apalachicola Riverkeeper Appalachian Citizens' Law Center Appalachian Mountain Club Arizona Mining Reform Coalition Association of Irritated Residents Association of Village Council Presidents Association of Zoos & Aquariums Audubon Alaska Audubon Society of the Everglades
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Bay Mills Indian Community Bayou City Waterkeeper Beacon Hill Counsel Bessemer Historical Society, Inc. Beyond Pesticides Black Farmers United Black Parents United Foundation Blue Planet Foundation Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League BlueGreen Alliance Borderlands Restoration Network Breast Cancer Prevention Partners Bridger Bowl Ski Area Brookhaven Landfill Action and Remediation Group Buckeye Environmental Network Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Build Reuse Bull Mountain Land Alliance Butterbee Farm Buxmont Coalition for Safer Water
Dakota Resource Council Deep South Center for Environmental Justice Defend Our Health Defenders of Wildlife Del Amo Action Committee Delaware Concerned Residents for Environmental Justice Delaware Riverkeeper Network Democracy Green Denver Trout Unlimited Desert Citizens Against Pollution Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment Diving Equipment and Marketing Association Don't Waste Arizona, Inc. Douglas Indian Association Downwinders at Risk Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition
E Ola Kākou Hawai‘i LLC Earth Island Institute Earthworks East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice EcoCheyenne Ecology Center EEECHO El Centro de la Raza El Puente, Inc., Enlace Latino de Acción Climática Elyria and Swansea Neighborhood Association Empower NJ Energy Efficient West Virginia Environment America Environmental Confederation of Southwest Florida Environmental Defense Fund Environmental Health Coalition Environmental Health Strategy Center Environmental Integrity Project Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform Environmental Justice Task Force - Tucson Environmental Law and Policy Center Environmental Protection Information Center Environmental Transformation Movement of Flint Environmental Working Group Eyak Preservation Council
Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition Families For a Livable Climate Families for Lead Freedom Now Farmworker Association of Florida Farmworker Justice Fund Fishermen Involved in Sustaining our Heritage Flint Rising Florida Rising Florida Wildlife Federation, Inc. Fly Fishers International Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Food & Water Watch Food Animal Concerns Trust Footloose Montana For A Better Bayou For the Fishes Fort Belknap Indian Community Fort Berthold Protectors of Water and Earth Rights Fossil Free Tompkins Frente Unido Pro-Defensa del Valle de Lajas Fresh Energy FreshWater Accountability Project Friends of Blackwater (West Virginia) Friends of Grays Harbor Friends of Sonoita Creek Friends of the Clearwater Friends of the Earth Friends of the Everglades Friends of the River Friends of the Santa Cruz River Friends of the Wild Swan Frisco Unleaded Front and Centered Full Gospel Pentecostal COGIC
Gallatin Valley Sunrise Gallatin Wildlife Association Gary Advocates for Responsible Development Golden State Salmon Association Grand Canyon Trust Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Grays Harbor Audubon Society Great Old Broads for Wilderness Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution Greater Greener Gloster Greater Yellowstone Coalition Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice GreenLatinos Greenpeace, Inc. Grid Alternatives Group Against Smog and Pollution
Habitat Recovery Project Havasupai Tribe Hawai‘i Advocates for Truly Affordable Housing Hawai‘i Solar Energy Association Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund Health Resources in Action Healthy Gulf Healthy Homes Collaborative Helena Interfaith Climate Advocates Hermanas Dominicas de la Sta. Cruz High Country Conservation Advocates Hillcrest Residents Association Hispanic Federation Hoosier Environmental Council Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians Hualapai Tribe Hui Ho‘omalu i Ka ‘Āina Hui Ho‘opulapula Nā Wai o Puna Hui Kānāwai ‘Oia‘i‘o Hui Mālama Honokōhau Hui o Nā Wai ‘Ehā Human Resource Council, District XI Humane Society of the United States Hunting Park Community Solar Initiative Hydaburg Cooperative Association
Idaho Conservation League Idaho Rivers United Idaho Steelhead and Salmon Unlimited Idaho Wildlife Federation Iglesia Cristiana (Discipulos de Cristo) de Amelia Indian People's Action Indiana State Conference and Laporte County Branch of the NAACP Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Institute for Fisheries Resources Institute for Sustainable Communities International Association of Fire Fighters International Wildlife Coexistence Network Interstate Renewable Energy Council, Inc. Ironbound Community Corporation Izaak Walton League of America
JOIN for Clean Air Coalition Just Health Action Just Transition Northwest Indiana
Kachemak Bay Conservation Society Kai Palaoa Kalanihale Kāpa‘a Karankawa Tribe of Texas Five Rivers Council Kasigluk Traditional Elders Council Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Kentucky Equal Justice Center Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light, Inc. Kentucky Resources Council Kentucky Solar Energy Society Ketchikan Indian Community King Island Native Community Kingman Park Civic Association Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center Klawock Cooperative Association Ko‘olaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club Kootenai Elders Committee KUPA Friends of Ho‘okena Beach Park
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Maine Audubon Maine Rivers Mālama Kua‘āina Mālama Mākua Maricopa Audubon Society Marin Audubon Society Marine Watch International Maryland Building Performance Association Maryland League of Conservation Voters Maryland Pesticide Education Network Massachusetts Public Health Association Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants Maui and Hector's Dolphin Defenders, Inc. Maui Tomorrow Foundation, Inc. Mayagüezanos por la Salud y el Ambiente, Inc. Medical Advocates for Healthy Air Melrose Environmental Awareness Committee Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin Merrimack Citizens for Clean Water Metlakatla Indian Community Metropolitan Housing Coalition Mexican Clean Energy Steering Committee Mexican Climate Initiative Mexican Ministry of Environment MI Air MI Health Mi Familia Vota Miami Waterkeeper Micah 6:8 Mission Michael J. Fox Foundation Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action Michigan Environmental Council Midlothian Breathe Midwest Environmental Defense Center Midwest Renewable Energy Association Migrant Clinicians Network Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation Moana Ohana Moloka‘i Nō Ka Heke Montana Audubon Montana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Montana Conservation Voters Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund Montana Environmental Information Center Montana Trout Unlimited Montana Wilderness Association Montana Wildlife Federation Monterey Bay Central Labor Council Montgomery County Green Bank Montgomery-Gibbs Environmental Coalition Mothers Out Front Mothers Out Front Colorado Mountain Association Mountain Watershed Association
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Nā Kia‘i Kai Nā ‘Ohana o Lele Housing Committee Nā Pāpa‘i Wāwae ‘Ula‘ula National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP Denver NAACP Pueblo NAACP State Conference National Audubon Society National Consumer Law Center National Hispanic Medical Association National Housing Trust National Parks Conservation Association National PFAS Contamination Coalition National Wildlife Federation National Wildlife Refuge Association Native Movement Native Village of Eek Native Village of Hooper Bay Native Village of Kwigillingok Native Village of Solomon Natural Resources Council of Maine Natural Resources Defense Council Neighbors Against Phibro Tech Neighbors for Clean Air New Castle Prevention Coalition New Jersey Audubon Society New Jersey Citizen Action New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance New Jersey Work Environment Council New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning New York City Community Garden Coalition New York City Environmental Justice Alliance New York Geothermal Energy Organization Newburgh Clean Water Project Nez Perce Tribe Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment No Waste Louisiana North Gulfport Community Land Conservancy, Inc. North Oyster Bay Baymen’s Association Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness Northern Alaska Environmental Center Northern Chumash Tribal Council Northern Plains Resource Council Northwest Environmental Defense Center Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association Norton Bay Inter-Tribal Watershed Council NW Energy Coalition NYC Environmental Justice Alliance
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Oakville Bluegrass Cooperative Ocean Conservancy Ocean Conservation Research Oceana Oceano Beach Community Association Ohio Citizen Action Ohio Environmental Council Ohio River Valley Institute Ohio Valley Allies Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition One Acre Farm Orange RAPP Oregon Aviation Watch Oregon Environmental Council Oregon Wild Organized Village of Kake Organized Village of Kasaan Organized Village of Saxman Orutsararmiut Native Council Owasco Watershed Lake Association
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Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations Pacific Environment Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers Park County Environmental Council Pascua Yaqui Tribe Patagonia Area Resource Alliance Patagonia Inc. Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma PEAK Coalition PennEnvironment PennFuture Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group Penobscot Nation People Over Polymers People's Collective for Environmental Justice Pesticide Action Network North America Petersburg Indian Association Philly Thrive Physicians for Social Responsibility Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste Pipeline Safety Trust Plainfield Township, PA Plug in America Pō‘ai Wai Ola Pollinator Stewardship Council Portland Harbor Community Coalition Potomac Riverkeeper Network Powder River Basin Resource Council POWER Interfaith Prairie Rivers Network Prince of Peace, AOG Progress Kentucky, LLC Prutehi Guåhan Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian PT AirWatchers Public Citizen Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Puget Soundkeeper Alliance PUSH Buffalo Puyallup Tribe of Indians
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Safe Ag Schools Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Salmon for All Salmon State San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society San Carlos Apache San Francisco Baykeeper San Pedro 100 LLC Saratoga Sites Against Norlite Emissions Save Lake Superior Association Save Ohio Parks Save Our Cabinets Save Our Creeks Save Our Springs Alliance Save Our Wild Salmon Save the Scenic Santa Ritas Save the Sound, Inc. Save the World's Rivers Sea Lion Corporation Seneca Lake Guardian Shark Conservation Fund Shiloh Baptist Church of Bridgeport ShoreRivers Sierra Club Sierra Club de Puerto Rico Sierra Club Environmental Law Program Sierra Club Foundation Sitka Tribe of Alaska Soda Mountain Wilderness Council Sokaogon Chippewa Community Solar United Neighbors Sound Rivers South Bronx Unite South Ward Environmental Alliance Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Southern Environmental Law Center Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Southwest Energy Efficiency Project Southwest Environmental Center St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin St. Francis Prayer Center St. John's Riverkeeper Stand.Earth Standing Trees Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment Surfrider Foundation Sustainable Energy Economy Solutions Sustainable FERC Project Swan View Coalition Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
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Takshanuk Watershed Council Tanana Chiefs Conference Testing for Pease Texas Campaign for the Environment Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services Texas Health and Environment Alliance The Anointed Temple AOH Church of God The Bay Institute The Hopi Tribe The Lands Council The Moms on a Mission Hui The Nature Conservancy The Pew Charitable Trusts THE POINT Community Development Corporation The Steamboaters The Water Collaborative The Wilderness Society Thiel Road Coalition This Canal Will Kill NOLA Tohono O’odham Nation Tonawanda Seneca Nation Town of Cameron, NY Town of Owasco, NY Town of Thurston, NY Toxic Free North Carolina Toxic-Free Future Trap Free Montana Public Lands Trout Unlimited, Inc. Tucson Audubon Society Tulalip Tribes Tuluksak Native Community Turtle Island Restoration Network Twin Harbor Waterkeeper Two Boots Farm
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Valley Organic Growers Association Verde Vessel Project of Louisiana Village of Oak Park, IL Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods Vote Solar
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Washington Conservation Action Washington Conservation Action Education Fund Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Washington Wildlife Federation Waste Action Project Waterkeeper Alliance Waterkeepers Chesapeake Watershed Alliance of Marin WaterWatch of Oregon WE ACT for Environmental Justice West End Revitalization Association West Long Beach Association West Maui Preservation Association West Virginia Citizen Action Group West Virginia Rivers Coalition Western Colorado Alliance Western Organization of Resource Councils Western Resource Advocates Western Watersheds Project, Inc. White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Wild Arizona WildEarth Guardians Wilderness Watch Wilderness Workshop Wildlands Conservancy Winnemem Wintu Tribe Winter Wildlands Alliance Wolves of the Rockies Womxn From the Mountain Wrangell Cooperative Association WRI-Mexico Wyoming Outdoor Council
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Jackie Medcalf, founder of the Texas Health and Environmental Alliance, at the San Jacinto Waste Pits Superfund Site in Harris County, Texas. Her group, represented by Earthjustice, successfully challenged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shortcut approval of a barge company project that would have disturbed the waste pits. Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice
From left, Earthjustice attorneys Charisse Arce, Jeremy Lieb, Erik Grafe, Carole Holley, and Hannah Foster, left to right, meet in Earthjustice’s Anchorage, Alaska office. Trump targeted the state on day one, signing an executive order calling for increased drilling, logging, mining, roadbuilding, and other environmentally destructive ventures. Ash Adams for Earthjustice
Whitney Gravelle, president of the Bay Mills Indian Community in northern Michigan, speaks about the Line 5 pipeline during an event in 2025. Earthjustice is representing Bay Mills in their fight against prolonging the oil pipeline with the construction of a massive oil tunnel beneath Straits of Mackinac. Jim Vondruska for Earthjustice
Florida’s sensitive Everglades ecosystem provides refuge for endangered species, supplies clean water, and offers dark night skies. Earthjustice clients are challenging the hasty construction of an immigration detention facility near Everglades National Park. Posnov / Getty Images
Stuart Clarke CHAIR Program Director William Penn Foundation Easton, MD Sergio Knaebel VICE CHAIR AT LARGE Vice President Sandler Foundation Hayward, CA Allison Silverman SECRETARY Vice President SC Group New York, NY Rich Rainaldi TREASURER Partner Green Spark Ventures Denver, CO Greg Avis Managing Partner Bangtail Partners Palo Alto, CA Peter Carson Retired Partner Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP San Francisco, CA Adam Cohen CEO Ranger Power New York, NY Abre’ Conner, Esq. Director Environmental and Climate Justice, NAACP Sacramento, CA Daniel Cordalis Staff Attorney Native American Rights Fund Boulder, CO Aja DeCoteau Executive Director Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Portland, OR Erika George Associate Dean for Equity, Justice, and Engagement R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law, Boston University School of Law Boston, MA Chris Hensman EVP, Chief of Staff, Housing Partnership Network Houston, TX Kim Jordan Cofounder and former CEO New Belgium Brewing Company Occidental, CA Roberta Katz Senior Research Scholar Stanford University Palo Alto, CA Diane Lewis M.D. and Founder Healthy Yard Project Katonah, NY Ed Lewis Consultant Ed Lewis Consulting Bozeman, MT George Martin Retired Partner Martin Law Philadelphia, PA Janet Maughan Emeritus Executive Director Passport Foundation Lancaster, VA Winsome McIntosh President McIntosh Foundation Washington, D.C. Kimberley Milligan Board Member Rachel’s Network and River Network Los Durango, CO Rashad Morris Principal and Co-Founder Impact Donor Strategies Seattle, WA Melanie Newman Chief Communications Officer Planned Parenthood Federation of America Washington, D.C. Vawter “Buck” Parker Earthjustice Attorney and Exec. Dir. (retired) Hood River, OR Lori Potter Partner Kaplan Kirsch and Rockwell, LLP Denver, CO Rekha Rao U.S. Electricity Senior Initiative Director Climate Imperative Oakland, CA Héctor Sánchez Barba Executive Director and CEO Mi Familia Vota Washington, D.C. Ruth Santiago Attorney Sole Practitioner Salinas, PR Dianne Stern Conservation Writer and Teacher Scarsdale, NY Steve Vladeck Professor of Law Georgetown University Washington, D.C. Kyle Whyte George Willis Pack Professor; University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Philosophy; Tishman Center Faculty Director; University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI David Yeh Climate OG Capitol Hill San Diego, CA
Tamara Abrams San Francisco, CA Tom Barron Boulder, CO Kayuri Bhimani Duluth, GA Charlotte Caldwell Louisville, KY Nick Cutsumpas Los Angeles, CA Tina Exarhos Rye, NY David Feldman New York, NY Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru Pomfret, CT K.D. Hallman Bellevue, WA Connie Harvey Aspen, CO Kerry Hoffman Lincoln, MA Jennifer Holderness San Francisco, CA Ann Krumboltz Seattle, WA Andrew Reich Los Angeles, CA John C. Roberts Chicago, IL Nuwangi Rodrigo Perera Oceanside, CA Dan Sarles Denver, CO Betty Schafer San Francisco, CA Fern Shepard Kensington, MD Abdi Soltani Berkeley, CA Dana Wagner San Francisco, CA Ellen Widess Berkeley, CA Fritz Wollett Seattle, WA Letitia Yang San Francisco, CA
Dotty Ballantyne Bozeman, MT Dave Cox San Francisco, CA Steve Daetz San Francisco, CA Susan Fisher Walnut Creek, CA Carmen Gonzalez Seattle, WA Louise Gund Berkeley, CA Barbara Haas Washington, D.C. John Hoffman Belvedere, CA Victor Hymes Alamo, CA Martha Kongsgaard Seattle, WA Marcia A. Kunstel Jackson, WY Ed Lewis Bozeman, MT George Martin Philadelphia, PA Edwin Matthews Washington Depot, CT Paul Newhagen Los Altos Hills, CA Dan Olincy Los Angeles, CA Andrew Reich Los Angeles, CA Greg Serrurier Woodside, CA Michael Sonnenfeldt New York, NY Elizabeth Sutherland Petaluma, CA Dianne Stern Scarsdale, NY Michael Traynor Berkeley, CA Steve Unfried Wilson, WV Michael Wall Malvern, PA Cynthia Wayburn Seattle, WA
We are ready to mount a vigorous defense of the Boundary Waters wilderness in Northern Minnesota from removals of protections from mining. Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice.
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