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Earthjustice. As Trump Takes Office Again, Earthjustice Is Ceding No Ground. 20 Jan 2025. Earthjustice.

The Trump administration and the Republican majority in Congress do not have a mandate for poisoned air and water, more cancer and asthma, or spiraling climate chaos. People expect their elected leaders to deliver on the basics of health and safety.
Earthjustice. As Trump Takes Office Again, Earthjustice Is Ceding No Ground. 20 Jan 2025. Earthjustice.

Whenever and wherever the first Trump administration threatened our air, water, precious habitats, and climate, Earthjustice attorneys took them to court. We prevailed 85% of the time. This time around, we will be contending with tougher courts, including the Supreme Court’s ultra right-wing majority. But over the last four years, we have built our capacity to navigate the new legal landscape. We continue to win high-impact cases and solve court-made problems with legislative fixes.

Ceding no ground. 20 Jan 2025.

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EarthJustice is fighting fracking in Argentina.

See also: EarthJustice. Organizations React to Supreme Court’s Refusal to Hear Their Side in Fracking Case. 3 Oct 2024. EarthJustice.

The Mendoza Supreme Court’s differential treatment between the oil industry and civil society groups occurred in a lawsuit over the authorization of fracking from the Vaca Muerta formation in the Argentinian province.

Mendoza, Argentina —

Civil society groups express concern about the Mendoza Supreme Court’s refusal to receive information about the dangerous impacts of using fracking to extract oil and gas on indigenous peoples and the environment in Mendoza. The Court rejected the participation of seven organizations — including an organization of the Mapuche Indigenous People and both Argentinian and international groups on human rights and the environment — in a case that will impact the regulation of the oil and gas industry in Mendoza.

The court has instead shown preference toward the fossil fuel industry, having allowed the participation of several groups representing the interests of oil companies in the same court case.

The court is weighing a decision involving the authorization of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, to extract oil and gas from the Vaca Muerta formation in Mendoza. Although fracking has not been widely used in Mendoza, the technique has caused public health and safety risks in other countries because of its impact on the environment.

The organizations requested to participate in the case as “Friends of the Court” (amicus curiae). This is a common practice permitted in Mendoza and many countries around the world that allows people not otherwise connected with litigation to share information with the courts in cases that affect the public interest.

One justice dissented from the Supreme Court’s decision, criticizing that this ruling “is far from the level of listening that ought to demand the judge’s attention in the resolution of cases of undoubted social interest, such as the one at issue here.” Furthermore, the justice pointed out that “[t]he entities requesting this Court to grant them participation as amicus, have vast experience and specialization in environmental issues.”

So far, the Supreme Court has rejected the interventions of the following organizations: Organización Identidad Territorial Malalweche (Mendoza); Xumek (Mendoza); Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (national); the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (international), the Center for International Environmental Law (international); Earthjustice (international) and the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (international).
EarthJustice. Organizations React to Supreme Court’s Refusal to Hear Their Side in Fracking Case. 3 Oct 2024. EarthJustice.