Earthjustice
For General Operating Support
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Amount$1,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/11/2019
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
This grant will support Earthjustice’s efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuels; safeguard health; and preserve lands, wildlife, and oceans. Earthjustice represents hundreds of organizations and communities, free of charge, in regulatory and legal proceedings to enforce and strengthen U.S. environmental laws and policies.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.earthjustice.org
Address
50 California Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA, 94111, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Founded in 1971, Earthjustice is a nonprofit environmental law organization that works to protect people’s health, preserve magnificent places and wildlife, advance clean energy, and combat climate change via legal strategies and partnerships with tribes and hundreds of community organizations in the U.S. Earthjustice is also harnessing the Inflation Reduction Act to electrify buildings, transportation, and industry with clean power. (Western Conservation Substrategy: Defend Public Lands; Climate Substrategy:National Policy )
for general operating support
Founded in 1971, Earthjustice is a nonprofit environmental law organization that works to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change via legal strategies and partnerships with tribes and hundreds of community organizations. A Western Conservation grantee, Earthjustice uses litigation and strategic communications to defend protected public lands and waters and bedrock environmental laws. (Western Conservation Substrategy: Defend Public Lands.)
for general operating support
Providing legal support for the conservation community, Earthjustice has been instrumental in defending legal challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate local air pollution and greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. In 2012 and 2013, Earthjustice will continue its advocacy work, along with other climate, public health, and conservation priorities.
