Earthjustice Goes on Offense With Biodiversity Litigation Center

Earthjustice will launch a new biodiversity law center on Thursday, giving the environmental group a command center to coordinate legal efforts and fight for stronger protections of endangered and threatened species and ecosystems.

The Biodiversity Defense Program will pull together what until now has been a region-by-region effort for the San Francisco-based group, which has more 150 full-time attorneys and bills itself as the preeminent public interest environmental law organization.

Earthjustice has filed more than 200 lawsuits over the last four years and sued the Trump administration more than 130 times, typically on behalf of or together with other groups. ...