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Protestors paddle next to the Mackinac Bridge at the Pipe Out Paddle Up Floatilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
Press Release October 21, 2025

Michigan Tribes to US Supreme Court: Don’t Bail Out Enbridge

Amicus brief asks SCOTUS to keep the Line 5 shutdown suit in state court

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Press Release June 27, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship and Nationwide Injunctions

Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen issues statement

Fachada de la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. (Gabriella Demczuk / Getty Images)
Press Release May 30, 2025

Fallo de la Corte Suprema Limita Tareas Vitales de La Ley Nacional de Política Ambiental

El supremo anula método de 50 años de antigüedad para la aprobación gubernamental de proyectos potencialmente dañinos

Uinta Basin in northeast Utah. (Jared Hargrave)
Update May 29, 2025

The Supreme Court Just Weakened a Bedrock Environmental Law

We will continue standing up for the principle that the government must consider predictable environmental harms before it acts.

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Gabriella Demczuk / Getty Images)
Press Release May 29, 2025

Supreme Court Limits Scope of Nation’s Bedrock Environmental Law

Court sweeps aside 50-year-old method for government approvals of potentially harmful projects

En nombre de organizaciones comunitarias del archipiélago, los abogados de Earthjustice argumentaron que FERC había permitido a New Fortress Energy, a través de su subsidiaria NFEnergía con sede en Puerto Rico, la instalación y operación de un gasoducto sin la revisión ambiental y estatutaria requerida por la ley. (Matt Roth para Earthjustice)
Press Release April 1, 2025

Órdenes que Permitieron la Expansión Irreconocida de la Infraestructura de Gas Metano en Puerto Rico Deben Deshacerse, Señalan Grupos

Comisión Federal Reguladora de Energía permitió, contrario a la ley, la expansión del terminal de gas metano en la Bahía de San Juan en manos de NFEnergía, sin consultar a las comunidades locales y sin la revisión requerida.

Earthjustice attorneys argued on behalf of community organizations in the archipelago that FERC had allowed New Fortress Energy, through its Puerto Rico subsidiary NFEnergía, to install and operate the pipeline without the legally required environmental and statutory review. (Matt Roth for Earthjustice)
Press Release April 1, 2025

Court of Appeals Must Undo Orders that Allowed the Unlawful Expansion of Methane Gas Infrastructure in Puerto Rico, Groups Argue

FERC unlawfully allowed methane gas company NFEnergía to expand its terminal infrastructure in the San Juan Bay without consulting local communities and without the required review

The now-closed Waukegan Generating Station, on the shore of Lake Michigan in Waukegan, Ill. The coal-fired power plant still has sizable coal ash ponds threatening the environment. (Jamie Kelter Davis for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 11, 2024

Statement on the Supreme Court Denial of a Stay of EPA’s Legacy Coal Ash Rule

The EPA’s Legacy CCR Surface Impoundment Rule extends safeguards to hundreds of coal ash dump sites that had been left unregulated

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Phil Roeder / CC BY 2.0)
Press Release October 28, 2024

States, Members of Congress, Former Agency & CEQ Officials, Legal Experts, Local Communities File Amicus Briefs in Defense of NEPA in Supreme Court Oil Train Case

Amici from broad and varied interests will help Supreme Court understand the legal and practical consequences of undoing lower court ruling

So many oil and gas wells have been developed in the Uinta Basin that air pollution levels rival those of big cities. (WildEarth Guardians / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release October 18, 2024

Environmental and Public Health Groups File Brief Opposing Utah Oil Train’s U.S. Supreme Court Appeal

Environmental and public health groups defending the nation’s landmark environmental law

document October 18, 2024

Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County: Brief

Environmental and public health groups defended the National Environmental Policy Act in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the law’s scope.

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
(Architect of the Capitol)
Article June 28, 2024

Supreme Court Eliminates Longstanding Legal Principle in Ruling About Fisheries Management

What you need to know about Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, and how the Court’s ruling jeopardizes the government’s ability to regulate

Press Release September 22, 2023

Groups File Supreme Court Amicus Brief in New England Fisheries Case

The case could significantly affect how federal courts review federal regulations

The wetlands affected by Sackett include those that supply the drinking water for millions of people in the United States. (Getty Images)
Article May 26, 2023

What Does Sackett v. EPA Mean for Clean Water?

A lawyer analyzes the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Press Release May 16, 2023

Exxon Attempts to Evade Responsibility for Exposing Texas Community to Harmful Pollution

Fifth Circuit to Determine How Community Groups Can Seek Civil Penalties for Unlawful Emissions

Kirti Datla, Earthjustice’s Director of Strategic Legal Advocacy, photographed in Washington, D.C.
(Melissa Lyttle for Earthjustice)
Article September 27, 2022

The Supreme Court’s Rightward Turn Won’t Stop Us From Using the Law for Progress

Earthjustice’s director of strategic legal advocacy reflects on the courts’ conservative shift and what’s really at stake in Sackett v. EPA.

In the News: The Washington Post January 7, 2022

2022 is a ‘crucial year’ for Biden’s climate agenda, from Congress to the Supreme Court. Here’s what to know.

Kirti Datla, Director of Strategic Legal Advocacy, Earthjustice: “The fact that the court went out of its way to take up this challenge to EPA’s authority means that it seems interested in limiting the Biden-Harris administration’s ability to address climate and environmental issues.”