The Natural Resources Defense Council is hiring a senior attorney. Earthjustice is seeking a lawyer in the Midwest. The Sierra Club wants an associate attorney in its Oakland, California, headquarters.
Those are just a few of the legal positions available at major national environmental organizations as the sector prepares for years of legal battles against the Trump administration’s policies.
Some groups are expanding their legal teams in direct response to the Trump administration, which has made quick work of axing energy and climate regulations during its first months in office and promises even deeper rollbacks. Environmental nonprofits are reconfiguring their strategies and their staffing as they brace for continued fights ahead.
The Washington, D.C.-based conservation group Defenders of Wildlife, for example, is expanding its legal team “to aggressively defend the Endangered Species Act and other conservation laws, which have come under increasingly hostile attack in the second Trump administration,” said Defenders spokesperson Laura Sheehan.
