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Māui dolphins photographed in New Zealand during a 2010 survey. (New Zealand Department of Conservation)
From the Experts September 5, 2025

Court Victory for Earth’s Rarest Marine Dolphin

With fewer than 50 Māui dolphins remaining, they are the rarest marine dolphin on Earth. Their survival is primarily threatened by harmful fishing practices that net the dolphins.
Press Release November 17, 2025

Water Commission Allows Golf Course to Unlawfully Irrigate with Drinking Water Amid Ongoing West Maui Drought

Since August, the commission chair has knowingly let TY Management Corp. use potable groundwater for golf turf irrigation in violation of the law
Māui dolphins photographed in New Zealand during a 2010 survey. (New Zealand Department of Conservation)
Press Release January 21, 2026

Groups File New Lawsuit to Prevent Extinction of Earth’s Rarest Marine Dolphins

Suit seeks U.S. ban on New Zealand seafood as fishing fleets harm rare Māui and Hector’s dolphins
Press Release March 3, 2026

Kapalua Golf Course Not Authorized to Irrigate With Drinking Water

Water commission chair corrects record, confirms by letter that use of potable groundwater for turf grass irrigation has not been recognized as an existing use
Press Release August 26, 2025

Court rules U.S. unlawfully authorized seafood imports that threaten Māui dolphin

Ruling requires government to address extinction risk of world’s most imperiled marine dolphin
The Flathead National Forest in Montana. (Your Forests Your Future / U.S. Forest Service)
Press Release June 5, 2026

Lawsuit: Admin Manufactured “Emergency” to Sidestep Endangered Species Requirements for Flathead Timber Project

West Reservoir project could harm ESA-listed grizzly bears and bull trout
Press Release May 26, 2026

Governor Hochul Becomes Nation’s Only Governor to Weaken State’s Climate Law

As New Yorkers struggle to pay their energy bills, Governor Hochul manufactured a chaotic election year crisis in order to weaken New York's best tool against skyrocketing gas and energy…
Press Release December 17, 2025

Comunidades Mapuche Denuncian Proyectos Extractivos en Mendoza ante Organismo de las Naciones Unidas

Organizaciones del Pueblo Mapuche y de la sociedad civil reclaman la falta de consulta y consentimiento sobre el megaproyecto minero Malargüe Distrito Minero Occidental y otras actividades extractivas en su…
Press Release May 18, 2026

Trump Administration’s EPA Rejects Hawaiʻi’s Clean Air Plan

The agency decision disregards Hawaiian Electric's own promises to retire aging oil-burning plants
document January 5, 2026

Māui and Hector’s Dolphin: Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

he critically endangered Māui dolphin continues to face an existential threat from bycatch in New Zealand’s North Island set net and trawl fisheries.
Māui dolphins photographed in New Zealand during a 2010 survey. (New Zealand Department of Conservation)
Article January 8, 2025

U.S. Trade Lawsuit Aims to Protect Earth’s Rarest Marine Dolphin

Today, only 30 to 50 critically endangered Māui dolphins are thought to exist.
document November 17, 2025

Letter to Rescind Groundwater Irrigation of Maui Golf Courses

Request to rescind and correct Chair Chang’s correspondence allowing the use of groundwater for irrigation on the Kapalua Bay and Plantation Golf Courses.
The newly restored flows to Wailuku River in October 2014. (Kapua Sproat / Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory June 24, 2024

Hawai‘i’s High Court Issues Another Historic Ruling in Maui “Four Waters” Case

State Water Commission failed to restore stream flows after closure of last sugar plantation
feature August 4, 2021

Maps: Organophosphate Pesticides in the U.S.

Visualizing the widespread extent of agricultural pesticide usage for 14 of the most harmful organophosphate pesticides.
Press Release July 22, 2025

Mapuche Defend Against Extractive Industry and Forced Evictions From Ancestral Lands in Argentina

Mapuche communities urge Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to further investigate abuses at nexus of extractive industry and land dispossession
A Newell's shearwater (ʻaʻo) on Kaua`i. (Jim Denny)
Press Release November 19, 2024

Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Maui’s Endangered and Threatened Seabirds from Hazards Posed by County Streetlights

Maui County pushed to comply with the Endangered Species Act
feature May 4, 2026

Coal Ash: Reports & Publications

Documenting the public health threat from coal ash, the hazardous waste that remains after coal is burned