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We hope our site is well organized and provides access to all our environmental law information. As a shortcut, you might find this site map useful.
- Press Releases: Check out our latest press releases covering our environmental law work.
- Media Resources: Meet the Earthjustice Press Team! If you are a reporter interested in our environmental law work or interviewing one of our attorneys or policy analysts, contact one of our press secretaries. You can also sign up to receive press releases and other materials.
- Multimedia: Earthjustice has audio clips and video footage available for listening or viewing online and for reporters on topics including salmon, ancient forests, environmental racism, red wolves, grizzly bears, Steller sea lions, monk seals, and others.
- Earthjustice in the News: Read how newspapers are covering the cases and issues Earthjustice is working on.
- Earthjustice Blogs: Some of the voices of Earthjustice, reporting on issues you care about. Join the discussion!
- Your Turn: Read what our supporters are saying about the issues and cases we're working on.
- e.Brief: Want to know what's going on at Earthjustice? Then sign up for e.Brief! Once a month we'll send you an update of our most interesting and urgent issues.
- Public Service Ads: With services donated by a number of individuals and agencies, Earthjustice is currently running several public service advertising campaigns. Our ads appear on a space-available basis in a variety of national magazines, on cable and TV stations, several airports, and in regional newspapers.
- A Snapshot of Earthjustice: Find out about how we work, the laws we go to court to enforce, our history, our staff, job openings, and much more.
- How We Work: Earthjustice has a legal staff of more than 50 in eight offices around the country, also a policy department in Washington, DC, an international program based in Oakland, and a communications team, also in Oakland, where the fundraising and administrative offices reside as well. You can read about their activities here.
- Our History: Earthjustice was founded as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in 1971. Since then, it has become the leading nonprofit environmental law firm in the country.
- Your Donation at Work: Earthjustice is supported by individuals, foundations, and court-awarded attorney fees. Details are here, along with a quick look at what fraction of the organization's budget is devoted to program, administration, and fundraising.
- Offices & Staff: Earthjustice maintains eight offices from Honolulu to Washington, DC, and Juneau to Tallahassee. It employs approximately 150 people. Find out about the people and places that make up Earthjustice here.
- Board of Trustees: Our Board of Trustees is responsible for the oversight of Earthjustice.
- Clients & Coalitions: In its 30-plus years, Earthjustice has represented more than 700 organizations, large and small, across the country, all free of charge. The organization has also formed alliances with other organizations, both domestic and in Canada, Latin America, and Russia.
- Job & Educational Opportunities: From Washington, DC, to Juneau to Hawai'i to our headquarters office, Earthjustice's work atmosphere is casual, professional, open, and friendly. We take our work very seriously, but believe in having fun while we do it.
- Contact Us: Send an email, a letter, or give a call to find out more.
- In the Courts and On Capitol Hill: Here you will find an extensive list of current and past environmental law cases, a description of the work our policy team is working on.
- Cases: A detailed list of our current environmental law cases.
- Victories: Earthjustice takes environmental polluters to court and wins. As the top practicers of environmental law in the US, our victories include some of the most important precedents.
- Policy and Legislation: Litigation is the basic tool Earthjustice uses, depending on strong state and federal laws. Often, however, attempts are made to weaken -- even destroy -- those laws and their implementing regulations. Earthjustice Policy and Legislation people work to defend and strengthen those laws and regulations.
- 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.
- Trip: Notes from Our President: Monthly news and commentary on environmental law from Trip Van Noppen, Earthjustice's President.
- Issue Areas: Our work is loosely divided into eight program areas: Air, Forests, Health and Communities, International, Oceans, Public Lands, Water, and Wildlife.
- Geographic Regions: Earthjustice maintains offices in eight cities that serve regions adjacent to them -- from Alaska to Florida and Washington, DC, to Hawai'i.
- Judging the Environment - Fair Courts for a Healthy Planet: This website is a joint project of Earthjustice & the Community Rights Counsel tracking federal judicial nominations and courts.
- Moving Beyond Coal: Earthjustice is working to make coal an unacceptable energy choice. Our goal is to stop expansion of coal-fired power while encouraging expansion of clean energy alternatives.
- Energy Effiency: It's not enough to rely on clean energy alternatives. To fully realize our goal of energy efficiency and sustainability, our country must squeeze more use from all energy sources, and do so efficiently.
- National Standards: Earthjustice works through Congress and our federal courts to ensure that the Environmental Protection Agency regulates greenhouse gasses. Our recent work is establishing new standards and legal precedents to further mitigate the causes and effects of global warming.
- State & Regional Standards: Some of the greatest victories over global warming are being secured by Earthjustice through state-by-state legal strategies. Our mission: raise renewable standards, and help states achieve these new standards.
- Wildlife: Global warming threatens hundreds of wildlife and plant species through irreversible impacts on their food sources, habitats, and more... possibly leading to the extinction of entire species in our lifetimes.
- The Arctic: Earthjustice is trying to prevent the Arctic from becoming an early-warning example of what the rest of the world faces from the ongoing impacts of global warming. We're also working to protect our fundamental rights to a healthy environment.
- Get Involved: Wondering what you can do to support our environmental law work?
- Donate! Make a gift right now!
- More Ways to Give: We provide many ways for you to support the environmental law work of Earthjustice, from one-time gifts to planned estate gifts.
- Take Action! Thank you to the tens of thousands of people who regularly respond to Earthjustice's Action Alerts! Your efforts helped generate some of the most exciting environmental victories of the past months.
- Shop at Earthjustice: Proud of your association with Earthjustice? Then show it off! Help spread the word about Earthjustice and support our work at the same time.
- Have Some Fun! You'll find lots of gloom and doom in these pages. Here is some beauty to brighten things up, also reviews of new books and other fun stuff.
- What's New: Looking for some more information? The Earthjustice library is packed with information about the issues & cases we fight for. Search for something special or browse our latest additions.
