You probably already know what Earthjustice is. It’s possible you remember it by its old name, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, founded in 1971. Known for the past 15 years as Earthjustice, the San Francisco-based nonprofit bills itself as the nation’s leading public interest environmental law firm. Earthjustice’s beginnings actually go back to 1965, when the Sierra Club launched a campaign to protect the Mineral King Valley in the southern stretch of the Sierra Nevada from a ski resort development proposed by the Walt Disney Co. The Sierra Club went to federal court in 1969, and although the club initially lost in the U.S. Supreme Court on standing grounds, its legal campaign then handled by the fledgling SCLDF eventually forced Disney to drop the stalled project.
It changed its name to Earthjustice in 1997 to reflect its broad client base within the environmental community. The firm has represented more than 1,000 citizen groups and individuals without charge. Today, Earthjustice has no formal operational connection to the Sierra Club, but it remains the environmental group the firm represents most frequently. Earthjustice supports its litigation with lobbying and public advocacy campaigns and employs 85 environmental attorneys in nine regional offices nationwide to handle its casework.
FROM ENGINEERING TO THE ENVIRONMENT
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