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Restore Earth Day’s Legacy

Click to expand Image Smoke billows over the Mississippi River in Louisiana’s Cancer All...

Conservation Groups Issue Reply to EPA in West Virginia Regional Haze Lawsuit

The Groups are Challenging the State’s Abysmal EPA-Approved Regional Haze Plan CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, and Earthjustice lawsuit...

There is no lasting peace without environmental justice

There is no lasting peace without environmental justice lmullett@afsc.org Fri, 04/10/2026 - 09:26 Main content Paragraph...

Sierra Club & Earthjustice Argue Against Illegal Coal Plant Extensions in Court

Washington, D.C. — Today, Sierra Club and Earthjustice presented oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in the legal challenge against the Department of Energy’s i...

Advocacy Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Decision to Exempt All Oil & Gas Activities in Gulf from Endangered Sp...

Lawsuit claims Trump’s use of ‘Extinction Committee’ violates law in numerous ways. Washington D.C. — Gulf and environmental groups sued the Trump Administration today over its dec...

Environmental groups challenge EPA repeal of greenhouse gas study

Several environmental groups and Alaskan tribes sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, challenging the administration’s recent repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s...

In Court, Sierra Club & Earthjustice Argue Against the Illegal Coal Plant Extensions that are Increasing Hoosiers’ B...

Washington, D.C. — Today, Sierra Club and Earthjustice presented oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in the legal challenge against the Department of Energy’s (...

Greenpeace Undermines Longstanding Principles Undergirding International Law

Last year, American oil pipeline company Energy Transfer successfully sued Greenpeace in a North Dakota state court, winning hundreds of millions of dollars in the jury verdict.  I...

Environmentalists are fighting our living standards in court

A decisive ruling to halt this lawfare overreach can’t come soon enough.

Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of U.S. Environmental Law

This Earth Day, environmental advocates are looking backward as well as forward. With the U.S. federal government so dramatically overhauling environmental policy, history shows ho...

Restore Earth Day's Legacy

This Earth Day arrives at a sobering moment as the EPA continues to erase the safeguards it was created to uphold. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was estab...

Time to End the Injustice of ‘Environmental Justice’

Environmental justice is far from the first policy to harm the people it claims to help. Pulling the plug on as much of this as possible may well be the most important part of Trum...

America’s Largest Rainforest Safe from Logging Thanks to Alaska Court Ruling

An Alaska district court judge has ruled against a coalition of logging interests looking to get their saws on Tongass National Forest’s old growth timber stands. As the nation’s l...

On the Bleakest Earth Day, Trust the Undercurrent of Resistance

The 56th Earth Day may also be the bleakest. Wave upon wave is crashing upon our system of ecological protections. But having spent years studying the full sweep of American enviro...

Reimagining Eco-Justice: South Asian Jesuits Move Toward Advocacy

The Justice From Monsanto: The Environmental Life and Law Of Clarence Thomas

April 27, 2026 | Source: Harvard Journals | by Scott W. Stern Ever since his controversial 1991 confirmation hearings, Justice Clarence Thomas has been the subject of ravenous pop...

Pro-Development Environmentalists

The Breakthrough Institute (BTI) found that “just 10 organizations initiated 35% of the total NEPA cases brought by NGOs.” The Sierra Club and its local chapters alone were respons...

Sierra Club Joins Hundreds of Orgs. Calling on Governments to End ISDS System

Joint Statement Highlights How These Secretive Tribunals Prop Up Intl. Fossil Fuel Industry. Washington, DC — Sierra Club has joined over 340 civil society organizations in signing...

Final Thought | Earth Day: Wisconsin Roots and the Protection of Natural Resources

This month, we celebrate the 56th anniversary of Earth Day. Each year, Earth Day, April 22, serves as a galvanizing moment to recommit to protecting our collective home. At Midwest...

The Rule of Law Cannot Work in Reverse

On April 17, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled 8-0 that Louisiana's sprawling coastal-erosion litigation against American energy producers belongs in federal court. This landm...

Climate Justice Report (2020-2030)

Climate Justice Report (2020-2030) Kate Noble Mon, 04/13/2026 - 09:59 Large CTA Caption Climate Justice Report (2020-2030) Large CTA Label...

ESA exemption draws immediate court challenge

(The Center Square) − Environmental groups moved almost immediately to challenge the Trump administration’s sweeping exemption of Gulf oil and gas operations from key Endangered Sp...

Ninth Circuit Rejects Youth Challenge to Federal Regulatory Accounting Policies

Classes of children are often named as plaintiffs in climate litigation, with complaints stressing the need for judicial intervention to overcome gridlock in the political branches...

Honoring Earth Day: Protections for Tribal homelands and sacred places

This Earth Day, we celebrate a recent win for Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni (Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument), established through sustained The post Honori...