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Mercury & Air Toxics Standards<\/p>\n![\"Map](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map-outline-us.png\")
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Agricultural Worker Protections<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t![\"A](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/turtle-mcleish-800.jpg\")
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Clean Water Case of the Century<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t![\"A](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sockeye-neo-800.jpg\")
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Wild Salmon<\/p>\n![\"Map](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map-outline__salmon.png\")
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Tongass National Forest<\/p>\n![\"Map](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map-outline__tongass.png\")
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National Monuments<\/p>\n![\"Map](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map-outline_ut.png\")
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Dakota Access Pipeline<\/p>\n![\"Map](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map-outline__dapl.png\")
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Chlorpyrifos Ban<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t![\"A](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/everglades_diana-robinson-by-nc-nd-800.jpg\")
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The Everglades<\/p>\n![\"Map](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map-outline__everglades.png\")
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For 50 years, Earthjustice has fought thousands of legal cases, representing all our clients free of charge – because the earth needs a good lawyer.<\/p>\n
See 50 of our proudest accomplishments that truly changed life for people and wildlife and set the stage for the world we live in now and into the future.<\/p>\n
These cases encompass:<\/p>\n\t\t50\n\t\t\t\t\tStates\n
1978-today \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n
Relentlessly used the Clean Air Act to close loopholes and force more protective air pollution safeguards across multiple industries.<\/p>\n
1997-today \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n
Twenty years of litigation led to the first-ever clean air protections against the nation’s dirtiest polluters – coal-fired power plants.<\/p>\n
2000-today \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n
Through repeated lawsuits, pushed the U.S. EPA to update and strengthen national smog standards, making the air cleaner for all.<\/p>\n
2006-today \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n
A hard-fought lawsuit brought on behalf of 10 environmental and public health groups and the Moapa Band of Paiutes resulted in the first-ever federal regulations for toxic coal ash.<\/p>\n
2017-today \u00b7 Wisconsin<\/p>\n
Protected Menominee Tribal lands and the Great Lakes, after a legal fight successfully resulted in the mine developer relinquishing its permits.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"Orthographic](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map_se-asia-150x150.png\" "\\"map_se-asia\\"")
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2019 \u00b7 Indonesia<\/p>\n
Worked with our partner the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law on a citizen suit to compel government agencies to bring Jakarta into compliance with ambient pollution limits.<\/p>\n
2020 \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n
Fought a decades-long legal battle involving a Maui wastewater treatment plant all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the fate of the nation’s waters hung in the balance. Clean water prevailed.<\/p>\n
2020 \u00b7 California<\/p>\n
The law and facts were so clear that Philips 66 settled before we even filed suit and committed to reduce air pollution that has contaminated communities for years.<\/p>\n
2021 \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n
Millions of streams and wetlands regained legal protections, after a lawsuit successfully challenged a disastrous Trump-era rule that allowed industries to dump pollutants into bodies of water.<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore on these Cases\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n 1977-today \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n From the Pacific Ocean to mountains of Montana, used the Endangered Species Act to protect hundreds of imperiled plants and animals – including the palila, an endangered bird found only on Mauna Kea, in one of the earliest uses of this visionary law.<\/p>\n 1987-today \u00b7 Pacific Northwest<\/p>\n Successfully defended the Northwest Forest Plan – the first broadscale ecosystem management approach to treat forests as complex, interdependent systems – from relentless attacks by logging interests.<\/p>\n 1994-today \u00b7 Washington<\/p>\n Fighting to restore the lower Snake River and remove four outdated dams that are driving wild salmon to extinction.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t 2011-today \u00b7 Gulf of Mexico<\/p>\n Brought a series of successful court actions to ensure enforcement of legally required safeguards for endangered sea turtles.<\/p>\n 2017-today \u00b7 California<\/p>\n Prevented a private company from draining and selling groundwater from an aquifer that nourishes desert species and migratory birds.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t 2020 \u00b7 Atlantic Ocean<\/p>\n Protected one of Earth’s rarest ocean creatures – the North Atlantic right whale – and many marine species, after years of litigation resulted in fossil fuel companies abandoning seismic airgun permits.<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore on these Cases\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n 2007 \u00b7 Florida<\/p>\n Made way for the world’s then-largest solar facility to be built where, two years earlier, we blocked the nation’s largest proposed coal plant.<\/p>\n 2012 \u00b7 Kentucky<\/p>\n In a watershed victory, one of the 50 dirtiest power plants in America retired after a successful lawsuit – paving the way for energy efficiency and clean energy.<\/p>\n 2015 \u00b7 Maryland<\/p>\n Fighting for forward-thinking policies to expand access to renewable energy, including an innovative community solar program in Maryland that opens the benefits of solar to communities of all income levels.<\/p>\n 2016 \u00b7 Nevada<\/p>\n Helped bring back Nevada’s solar industry by successfully challenging discriminatory rate hikes for solar customers.<\/p>\n 2017 \u00b7 California<\/p>\n In a groundbreaking-first for the nation, successfully pushed Los Angeles Metro to invest in a full fleet of zero-emission electric buses – a win for the climate and our lungs.<\/p>\n 2021 \u00b7 California<\/p>\n Historic settlement to clean-up one of the world’s largest warehouses resulted in $47 million investment in electric trucks, charging infrastructure, solar, and more.<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore on these Cases\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n 1976 \u00b7 Utah<\/p>\n Legal pressure forced the withdrawal of plans to build a goliath coal mine and power plant in an irreplaceable area that would eventually be designated as part of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t 1980s-today \u00b7 Arctic<\/p>\n Relentlessly fought to protect the Arctic from drilling. Despite numerous attempts by industry, there is no offshore oil and gas drilling today in America’s Arctic Ocean.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t 2008 \u00b7 Montana + Alberta<\/p>\n Saved one of the most wild, beautiful landscapes remaining in North America – Montana’s Flathead River and the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park – from dirty energy development.<\/p>\n 2010-today \u00b7 Pacific Northwest<\/p>\n Prevented the Pacific Northwest from being turned into a hub of fossil fuel transport and export terminals.<\/p>\n 2011-2014 \u00b7 New York<\/p>\n Successfully upheld the Town of Dryden’s right to stop the oil and gas industry from fracking within town limits, setting the stage for a statewide ban on fracking.<\/p>\n 2013-2020 \u00b7 Montana<\/p>\n Succeeded in a decades-long fight to prevent oil and gas drilling on illegally leased lands that are sacred to the Blackfeet Nation and critical for wildlife habitat.<\/p>\n 2016-2022 \u00b7 North Dakota<\/p>\n Represented the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its years-long legal fight to protect its homeland from the Dakota Access Pipeline.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t 2019 \u00b7 South Africa<\/p>\n Partnered with Centre for Environmental Rights, which secured a court victory shutting down the proposed Khanyisa coal-fired power plant.<\/p>\n 2019 \u00b7 Indiana<\/p>\n Successfully challenged a proposed billion-dollar gas-fired plant that would have locked consumers into fossil fuel infrastructure for the next 40 years.<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore on these Cases\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n 1989 \u00b7 Louisiana<\/p>\n In the first time a federal agency made environmental justice a basis for its decision, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied a permit to build a uranium enrichment plant in Homer, La., following legal pressure.<\/p>\n 1989-2018 \u00b7 Hawai\u02bbi<\/p>\n One of Hawai\u02bbi’s spiritual havens is healing after decades of being bombed and shelled.<\/p>\n 1998-today \u00b7 Hawai\u02bbi<\/p>\n Hawaiian streams are flowing again, after long-running legal fights by local and Native Hawaiian communities established the precedent that water is a public trust, not private property.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t 2005 \u00b7 Arctic<\/p>\n Supported the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in the development of the first-ever petition linking climate change and human rights – the impetus for the now-global recognition that climate change is a fundamental human rights issue.<\/p>\n 2014 \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n Fighting alongside communities across the country to enforce the law that forbids agencies that receive federal funding from discriminating based on race.<\/p>\n 2017 \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n Protecting the 177 million people, schoolchildren, workers, and emergency first-responders who live and work near chemical facilities, with commonsense safeguards against chemical disasters.<\/p>\n 2019 \u00b7 Arizona<\/p>\n A company tried to bend the rules to dig a mile-wide copper mine on sacred lands, until a lawsuit brought by the Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Hopi Tribe blocked the plan.<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore on these Cases\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n 2006-2020 \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n Joined farmworker, labor, and environmental groups to compel the U.S. EPA to finally strengthen pesticide protections for people who grow and harvest the nation’s food.<\/p>\n 2007-2021 \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n Under a court-ordered deadline, the U.S. EPA finally banned all food uses of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos that is widely used in U.S. agriculture.<\/p>\n 2008-today \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n U.S. EPA must now consider the full range of ways that people may be exposed to harmful chemicals, following a successful lawsuit.<\/p>\n 2011-2016 \u00b7 West Virginia<\/p>\n Defended the historic veto of the massive Spruce No. 1 Mine, which would have used a mining method that brings devastating health consequences to neighboring communities.<\/p>\n 2017-today \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n Working to stop contamination of this class of 5,000 toxic chemicals that don’t break down and can remain in drinking water and our bodies for decades.<\/p>\n 2019-today \u00b7 Louisiana<\/p>\n Representing residents of St. James Parish – part of “Cancer Alley” – who are fighting a petrochemical complex that would double toxic air emissions and more than triple the levels of cancer-causing chemicals.<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore on these Cases\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n 1972 \u00b7 California<\/p>\n To preserve the spectacular Sierra Nevada valley called Mineral King from being developed into a large ski resort, a small band of lawyers filed suit. The case confirmed the right of citizens to take environmental disputes to court.<\/p>\n 1977-today \u00b7 Alaska<\/p>\n Successfully won multiple legal battles to protect the ancient trees and abundant wildlife of “America’s Climate Forest” from old-growth logging and destructive road construction.<\/p>\n 1988-today \u00b7 Florida<\/p>\n Negotiated a landmark settlement that required significant Everglades restoration measures and court-enforced pollution limits.<\/p>\n 1996 \u00b7 Montana<\/p>\n Averted a potential disaster at one of the world’s treasures – Yellowstone National Park – when plans for industrial gold mining were abandoned in the face of legal and national pressure.<\/p>\n 1998-today \u00b7 Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n The river is coming back to life due to sustained community pressure and Earthjustice litigation, requiring the U.S. EPA to set strong pollution limits and the creation of one of the most effective sewage overflow control programs in the nation.<\/p>\n 1999-today \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n Won in court after court to defend the Roadless Rule, which protects roughly a third of our national forests from clear-cuts.<\/p>\n 2001-today \u00b7 Nationwide<\/p>\n\n Stop the mass extinction of species<\/a>\n<\/h2>\n
Endangered Species<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Old-growth Forests<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Wild Salmon<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
![\"Orthographic](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map_north-america-150x150.png\" "\\"map_north-america\\"")
\n\tSea Turtles<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Mojave Trails National Monument<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
![\"Orthographic](\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map_atlantic-150x150.png\" "\\"map_atlantic\\"")
\n\tMarine Mammals & Seismic Airguns<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
\n Power everything with 100% clean energy<\/a>\n<\/h2>\n
Glades Coal to Solar<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Big Sandy Coal\u00a0Plant<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Community Solar<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Reviving Rooftop Solar<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Electric Buses<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
World Logistics Center<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
\n End extraction and burning of fossil fuels<\/a>\n<\/h2>\n
Kaiparowits Plateau<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
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\n\tArctic Ocean<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
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\n\tFlathead River Valley<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Fossil Fuel Export Terminals<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Right to Ban\u00a0Fracking<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Badger-Two Medicine<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Dakota Access Pipeline<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
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\n\tCoal in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Coal- and Gas-fired Power Plants<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
\n Build a justice-centered environmental movement<\/a>\n<\/h2>\n
Uranium Plant<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Makua Valley<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Restore Stream Flow<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
\n\tClimate Change & Human Rights<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Chemical Disaster Rule<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Rosemont Mine<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
\n Remove toxic exposure from our lives<\/a>\n<\/h2>\n
Agricultural Worker Protections<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Chlorpyrifos Ban<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Toxic Substances Control Act<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Mountaintop Removal Mining<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
PFAS “Forever Chemicals”<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Petrochemicals<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
\n Safeguard our public lands and waters<\/a>\n<\/h2>\n
Mineral King<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Tongass National Forest<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
The Everglades & Florida’s Waterways<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Yellowstone Mining<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Anacostia River<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
Roadless Rule<\/a><\/h3>\n\t
National Monuments<\/a><\/h3>\n\t