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Breaking Down the Courthouse Door
Don Harris, a cofounder of Earthjustice and member of the board of trustees, tells the story of how it all started, in a lawsuit that opened up the legal system to environmental organizations and sparked the creation of the organization that would become Earthjustice.
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Recent Victories

Alaska’s Supreme Court Halts Transfer of Public Lands
Nearly a quarter-million acres of state land remain under public ownership after Alaska’s highest court held that transferring them to the University of Alaska would violate the State Constitution.
Updated: November 6, 2009

A Historic Victory for Everglades Restoration
Natural flow of the Everglades to be restored through the purchase of U.S. Sugar holdings south of Lake Okeechobee; largest step forward in the long history of Everglades restoration
Updated: June 24, 2008

Dirty Coal Plants Lose Another Source of Funding
Feds stop funding rural dirty coal plants for two years
Updated: July 2, 2008

Recent News

Gulf Coast Communities Praise EPA Plan to Limit PVC Plant Pollution
Edgar Mouton, 74, has lived in Mossville, Louisiana for all his life and for most of those years he's lived near a PVC...

Senate EPW Committee Approves Climate Legislation
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works passed climate change legislation today despite a standoff with...

EPA Takes First Step in Addressing Risk Posed by Toxic Pesticide Drift
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a first step today in addressing the harmful effects of pesticide...

Recent Cases

University of Alaska Lands
This case challenges the constitutionality of Alaska state legislation, passed in 2005, that grants over 250,000 acres of...

Stockwater Exemption
On June 30, 2009, Earthjustice's Seattle office filed suit in state court in Washington, on behalf of third and fourth...

Everglades: Agricultural Pollution
The legal battle to stop agricultural pollution the Everglades of south Florida has raged for years. Earthjustice has been...