Earthjustice

Here’s an interesting idea: a law firm fighting for the environment. Well, that's basically Earthjustice!

Earthjustice (known as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund when founded in 1971, but it's entirely independent of the Sierra Club) is basically a non-profit law firm representing environmental causes in court. It doesn’t charge clients for services – all funding comes from donations, whether they’re from individuals or foundations.

Earthjustice cases generally fall into three categories – “The Wild” (1), “Healthy Communities” (1), and “Clean Energy and a Stable Climate” (1). As the categories’ names suggest, cases regarding the wilderness fall into the first category, cases regarding communities’ health fall into the second, and cases regarding use of clean energy or maintaining a stable climate fall into the third.

Earthjustice has played a part in several milestone cases for United States environmental law. These include (but are not limited to) the U.S. Supreme Court cases “Sierra Club v. Morton” and “Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency”.

Is Weekly Charity a partner of Earthjustice? No, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t encourage helping them out in their fight for an eco-friendly, environmentally healthy world.

Now, statistics …

Charity Navigator gives Earthjustice: 4 out of 4 stars
Charity Watch gives them: A solid "A" rating
Earthjustice meets 20/20 of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s Standards for Charity Accountability.

Thank you for your time! Here’s the link to Earthjustice’s website:
http://earthjustice.org

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(1) The website, earthjustice.org, on the “Our Work” page, retrieved from the url “http://earthjustice.org/our_work” on Sunday, June 19, 2016