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  • Coalitions & Partners 
    • Learn more about our coalitions & partners:

    • AIDA
      The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) is an international non-profit environmental law organization that promotes the ability of citizens to protect their health and environment through development and enforcement of national and international environmental laws.

    • Arctic Refuge Action
      Arctic Refuge Action is a coalition of conservation, labor, religious and other citizen groups representing millions of Americans who believe the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should remain wild, unspoiled, and free of oil rigs.

    • Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
      The second-most polluted air in the country (after Los Angeles) hovers over (not Houston, not Denver) California's San Joaquin Valley. One reason: big ag and big oil have been allowed to ignore the Clean Air Act. Now, residents are fighting back.

    • The Conservation System Alliance
      The Conservation System Alliance aims to protect the 26-million acre National Landscape Conservation System by making it permanent, well-funded, well-planned, and inclusive of the Bureau of Land Management's very best lands and waters.

    • Ecojuris
      Founded in 1991, Ecojuris is Russia's first public-interest environmental law firm. With a staff of eight attorneys, Ecojuris: analyzes and prepares recommendations on environmental laws and regulations; maintains a database of environmental legislation; consults with businesses and foreign investors on potential violations of environmental and land use laws; and conducts litigation.

    • Herring Alliance
      The Herring Alliance is a coalition of environmental and other public interest organizations dedicated to protecting and restoring marine wildlife populations and Northeastern U.S. marine ecosystems by reforming the Atlantic herring fishery.

    • Highway Robbery
      The Bush administration is conspiring with Utah and other states to allow the bulldozing and paving of potentially thousands of miles of new roads through national parks, national monuments, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges.

    • The Irreplaceable: Wildlife in a Warming World
      A partnership of faith, science, justice, and art to educate policymakers and the public about the impacts of global warming on wildlife through the beauty and power of images combined with the inspiration and knowledge from science, religion, and conservation law.

    • Judging the Environment
      This joint project of Earthjustice and Community Rights Counsel conducts research to advise the environmental community and to educate the public on the importance of lifetime federal judicial nominees.

    • Save Our Environment
      A collaborative effort of the nation's most influential environmental advocacy organizations harnessing the power of the internet to increase public awareness and activism on today's most important environmental issues.

    • Save Our Wild Salmon
      200 years ago, Snake River wild salmon saved American explorers Lewis and Clark from certain starvation. Now these salmon balance on the edge of extinction themselves.

    • Save the Act
      Destroying the Endangered Species Act is like defacing America. Help us save it.

    • Sierra Legal Defence Fund
      Founded in 1990, the Sierra Legal Defence Fund is an independent, nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm that provides free legal representation to other nonprofit environmental organizations in Canada. Earthjustice works with the Sierra Legal Defence Fund on transboundary issues and through its participation in AIDA.

    • Stop Mountaintop Removal
      Thousands of acres and hundreds of miles of streams and rivers are being permanently demolished while state and federal governments look the other way. The culture and history of Appalachia is disappearing with each mountaintop that is blown away. Mountaintop removal mining is the worst environmental disaster our country has ever known, and it's time this destructive mining practice ends!

    • Where We Live
      Public health is at serious risk nearly everywhere, from pollution that contaminates air, water, and food. This campaign helps people fight against injustice by providing free legal services to community groups and grassroots organizations worldwide.
 

Our Work

Campaigns

Earthjustice initiates strategic campaigns to address the most urgent threats to our environment. In this section you will find descriptions of Earthjustice's current campaigns, including information about our coalition efforts.

Wolves in Danger
The wolf's amazing comeback in the northern Rockies is one of our country's greatest wildlife success stories. But it may be dangerously short-lived now that the federal government has issued a rule that permits wolf killing in the northern Rockies. This heralds the beginning of a larger plan to remove the animals from the Endangered Species List and allow large-scale slaughters of more than 80% of the wolf population.

 

Cleaning Up the Nation's Biggest Mercury Polluters
Cement kilns, power plants, incinerators: they're poisoning our lakes and rivers with mercury pollution. Mercury can cause birth defects, infertility and other health problems, particularly for women and children. See what we're doing to clean them up and what you can do to help.

 

Protecting Our Sierra Nevada
Our campaign to protect the last remaining old-growth trees and imperiled wildife in the National Forests of California

 

Cement Kiln List
The information on this page is presented in conjunction with Earthjustice's new comprehensive report on mercury pollution from cement kilns. (This list of cement kilns represents approximately one-third of all cements kilns in the US.) Click on the column headings to sort this list. For example, clicking on the "State" heading will organize the data by state.

 

GMO-Biopharm Watch
Some bad ideas should never take root. Secretly growing food crops that are genetically engineered without public oversight is a bad idea, no matter how you look at it.

 

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule
We have an opportunity to preserve nearly 60 million acres of wild forests that belong to every one of us. The administration, meanwhile, is determined to throw the forests open to loggers, miners, and others, who would profit from the public's resources.

 

Restore Stream Flow
Water in Hawai'i is a public trust resource -- wasteful water diversions must be stopped and the streams of Maui restored

 

The Northwest Forest Plan
Since 1994, the Northwest Forest Plan has protected 24 million acres of public land from relentless clearcut logging practices. But now, the Bush administration is systematically weakening this management framework.

 

Protecting Farmworkers From Toxic Pesticides
Dangerous pesticides linked to cancer, birth defects, and other adverse health effects threaten the health of millions of farmworkers across the United States. These poisons disproportionately threaten the health of migrant and seasonal farmworkers.

 

Fish Trees Water: Safeguarding and Restoring the Great Northwest
Salmon, conifers, and rivers, in other words, which symbolize the Pacific Northwest, where battles to preserve forests, streams, and wildlife have raged for years. With a hostile administration in Washington, the struggle continues.