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A fossil fuel drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. (Marc Morrison / Cavan Images / Getty Images)
From the Experts June 23, 2025

5 Special Places That Trump’s Megabill Would Sell Out — to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

document June 18, 2025

Asunto: Solicitud de aplicación de la legislación sobre materiales peligrosos en los yacimientos de petróleo y gas de EE. UU.

Carta al Departamento de Transporte de los EE. UU. (DOT), la Administración de Ductos y Materiales Peligrosos y la Administración Federal de Seguridad de Autotransportistas (FMSCA) en nombre de Truckers Movement for Justice, Ohio Valley Allies y otras organizaciones para exigirle al DOT el cumplimiento de la ley federal de materiales peligrosos para el transporte de materiales peligrosos, especialmente desechos de petróleo y gas. Asimismo, la carta solicita a la FMSCA realizar una auditoría de seguridad formal para todos los conductores que operan en yacimientos petrolíferos alrededor de Estados Unidos.

Caribou make their way across the Teshekpuk Lake area of northern Alaska. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 18, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Trump Administration Plan to Open Most of the Western Arctic to Oil and Gas Drilling

The public has just two weeks to comment on an illegal drilling plan that would destroy ecologically sensitive areas and deepen the climate crisis

Press Release June 13, 2025

Ninth Circuit Deals Setback to Willow Oil Project in Alaska

Interior must reconsider the project after court concludes approval violated the law

document June 13, 2025

‘Will Affect’ Written Comments of Bad River Band on Enbridge Line 5 Reroute

Analysis of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa supporting the Band’s determination under CWA 401(a)(2) that the proposed Enbridge Line 5 Reroute will violate the Band’s water quality requirements.

document June 13, 2025

Willow Decision: Court of Appeals

Approval of the Willow Project, an oil and gas venture in America’s northern Arctic, sent back to the Bureau of Land Management for reconsideration

Press Release June 12, 2025

Community Groups Speak Out Against Kern County Oil and Gas Permitting Ordinance

Kern’s Board of Supervisors to vote on the ordinance by the end of June after a decade of community objection and legal challenges

document June 12, 2025

Joint Letter Second Supplemental Recirculated Environmental Impact Report Kern County Zoning Ordinance

74 organizations respectfully submit this letter in reference to Kern County’s proposed “Revisions to Title 19-Kern County Zoning Ordinance (2025-A) Focused on Oil and Gas Local Permitting”

Emissions from a stack at the Mitchell Power Plant, a coal powered plant, in Moundsville, West Virginia. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 11, 2025

Trump’s EPA Abandons Its Duty to Protect Public from Power Plant Air Pollution

EPA seeks to end limits on mercury and arsenic and climate pollution, increasing harm to communities and reversing progress on climate action

Los camiones circulan por la carretera interestatal 80 el 18 de febrero de 2014 en Berkeley, California, cuando el presidente estadounidense Barack Obama anunció que su administración está comenzando a desarrollar una nueva fase de estándares más estrictos de eficiencia de combustible para vehículos medianos y pesados. Había ordenado a la Agencia de Protección Ambiental y a la Administración Nacional de Seguridad del Tráfico en las Carreteras del Departamento de Transporte que crearan e impusieran nuevos estándares de eficiencia de combustible y de gases de efecto invernadero antes del 31 de marzo de 2016. (Justin Sullivan)
Press Release June 9, 2025

Camioneros Solicitan que el Gobierno Federal Aplique Reglas de Material Peligroso de Residuos de Petróleo y Gas

Camioneros se unen con ambientalistas para exigir condiciones más seguras, capacitación adecuada y un salario justo para los camioneros que transportan desechos tóxicos del fracking de los campos petrolíferos.

document June 9, 2025

Solicitud de aplicación de la legislación sobre materiales peligrosos en los yacimientos de petróleo y gas de EE. UU.

Letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) on behalf of Truckers Movement for Justice, Ohio Vallie Allies, and other organizations to request that DOT enforce federal hazardous materials law for transportation of hazardous materials, particularly the transportation of oil and gas waste, and the FMSCA conduct a formal safety audit for all carriers operating in oilfields across the United States.

Trucks drive along Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif. (Justin Sullivan)
Press Release June 9, 2025

Truckers Petition Feds to Enforce HAZMAT Rules on Oil and Gas Waste

Truckers join environmentalists to demand safer conditions, proper training and fair pay for truckers hauling hazardous materials from oilfields

From the Experts June 6, 2025

The Trump Administration Forces Power Plants to Continue Burning Fossil Fuels

Department of Energy’s abuse of power charges consumers for an emergency that doesn’t exist.

document June 4, 2025

Request for Enforcement of Hazardous Materials Laws in U.S. Oil and Gas Fields

Letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) on behalf of Truckers Movement for Justice, Ohio Valley Allies, and other organizations to request that DOT enforce federal hazardous materials law for transportation of hazardous materials, particularly the transportation of oil and gas waste, and the FMSCA conduct a formal safety audit for all carriers operating in oilfields across the United States.

Press Release June 2, 2025

Solicitan Intervención Urgente de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Para Evitar Desalojo Forzoso de Comunidad Mapuche

Organizaciones buscan pronunciamiento del órgano de derechos humanos a favor de la Comunidad Lof El Sosneado, la cual se encuentra en conflicto con una empresa minera en la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina

Fossil fuel drilling sites in Alaska's Western Arctic. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 2, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on the Trump Administration’s Proposed Repeal of Western Arctic Protections

Repeal of Regulations designed to minimize the impacts of fossil-fuel drilling on public lands in Alaska would harm wildlife, subsistence, and the climate

Press Release May 30, 2025

Urgent Intervention by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Needed to Stop Eviction of Mapuche Community

Organizations ask the commission to defend the Lof El Sosneado community from forced removal in conflict with mining company on ancestral lands in Mendoza, Argentina

Fachada de la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. (Gabriella Demczuk / Getty Images)
Press Release May 30, 2025

Fallo de la Corte Suprema Limita Tareas Vitales de La Ley Nacional de Política Ambiental

El supremo anula método de 50 años de antigüedad para la aprobación gubernamental de proyectos potencialmente dañinos