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.
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.
Find Out MoreWashington, DC – A new memo released today by the Sierra Club analyzes the legal risks polluters would be exposed to if Donald Trump and Administrator Lee Zeldin choose to rescind the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark Endangerment…
Oakland, CA — The Sierra Club has filed another lawsuit against the Trump Administration after its Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, failed to provide materials in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the…
Washington, DC – As the Trump administration continues to undo federal regulations that protect our air and water, including proposals to eliminate standards for vehicle emissions and revoke the 2009 endangerment finding, the Sierra Club today…
CAMERON PARISH, LA – A Louisiana state court terminated the coastal use permit for the proposed Commonwealth LNG export facility, finding state officials violated the Louisiana Constitution by failing to consider the environmental impacts on…
Washington, DC – Amidst explosive news reports this week of more than 40 administration staffers having direct ties to fossil fuel companies and the existence of a “concierge, white glove service” set up by the Trump Administration to…
10M+
acres of wilderness protected
200+
lawsuits filed to resist Trump
1K+
miles of dirty fuel pipelines blocked
390
coal plants retired