Environmental Law

Environmental Law Program

Environmental Law Program

The Environmental Law Program uses strategic legal campaigns to fight climate change, to protect clean air, water and wilderness, and to promote justice for communities threatened by pollution.


In the past year alone, we launched more than 200 legal actions to challenge the fossil fuel industry's destructive effects on our air, water, and climate.

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Our team of top-notch attorneys and legal staff leverages all of the Club's tools of democracy, integrating legal advocacy with grassroots organizing, sophisticated communications, a state-of-the-art digital strategies team, and administrative lobbying.

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We are a team of professional attorneys and staff who combine sophisticated legal tactics with a commitment to social and environmental justice at the grassroots level. We pair litigation with effective community organizing and strong local communications to build genuine, informed support from community members and government officials, making courtroom victories sustainable over the long term.

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October 1, 2018

WASHINGTON, DC – As North Carolina communities grapple with the pollution from industrial pig, chicken, and turkey operations that flooded during Hurricane Florence, community groups and an allied national coalition filed a legal complaint in…

September 20, 2018

NIPSCO unveiled a plan to retire its last remaining coal-burning power plants within 10 years and replace them with renewable energy in Northwest Indiana. At the company’s 20-year planning meeting, community members shared a video montage of NIPSCO…

September 19, 2018

AEP Ohio filed plans for the single largest clean energy development in Ohio history - at least 900 megawatts of new wind and solar generation, would more than double the amount of utility scale clean energy in the state.

August 15, 2018

A federal judge today sided with environmental, landowner and Tribal plaintiffs in their challenge to the Trump administration’s approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

August 15, 2018

Yesterday, a coalition of clean water advocates filed two emergency motions to stop the continued construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline

10M+

acres of wilderness protected

200+

lawsuits filed to resist Trump

1K+

miles of dirty fuel pipelines blocked

382

coal plants retired