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Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “Ultimately, what matters here is we have a decision to intensify and extend harms to vulnerable communities who’ve been suffering for decades, and punting these harms down the road. But this is the place where Interior has to address the inequalities, because this is a decision about how often…

Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Groups oppose the coal leasing provision in the HNRC budget reconciliation bill.

The House Natural Resources Committee’s budget reconciliation bill language includes an all-out attack on Alaska’s public lands, including maximum drilling, mining and logging

A summary of quotes reacting to attacks on public lands contained in the House Natural Resources reconciliation bill.

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources by groups opposing mandated leasing for offshore oil and gas drilling in budget reconciliation.

Ava Ibanez Amador, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “There should be a framework where the operators that are benefiting from resources in the Gulf of Mexico should be responsible for the entire life cycle of their profits, and that includes the decommissioning.”

Julie Goodwin, Attorney, Midwest Office, Earthjustice: “We know that there is no national energy emergency.”

The environmental movement has made huge gains since the 1970s, and we won’t let the lawless actions of the current administration reverse our hard-won progress.

The Bureau of Land Management has never analyzed the cumulative harms of its oil and gas well approvals on nearby communities and the environment in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

We’re stepping in to defend a trio of life-saving rules from a flurry of opportunistic lawsuits

The Line 5 oil pipeline is putting at risk the Great Lakes — the world’s largest surface freshwater system. The State of Michigan can still stop the construction.

The Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies will wreak havoc on laws that protect everyone’s health and the environment.

Tribes and environmental orgs are asking the Court to overturn a state agency’s permit

The Line 5 pipeline has already leaked over 1 million gallons of oil to date and threatens the Great Lakes. Time is running out to stop one company’s dangerous plans to keep the oil flowing.

Four Michigan Tribes and environmental groups ask the state Supreme Court to consider overturning a lower court decision that upheld the Michigan Public Service Commission’s permit for the Line 5 tunnel project.

Debbie Chizewer, Managing Attorney, Midwest Office, Earthjustice: “If the Corps advances the Line 5 tunnel project through this process, we expect them to comply with the law. The truth is there is no national energy emergency, and even if there was, Line 5 is a pipeline that transports Canadian oil primarily to Canada. It will…

15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, we’re suing the Trump administration for attempting to reopen protected areas of the Gulf coastline for oil and gas drilling.