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document November 14, 2025

Line 5 Michigan Supreme Court Brief by Tribes and Environmental Groups

The Bay Mills Indian Community, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi represented by Earthjustice filed their opening brief alongside the Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) and Michigan Climate Action Network (MiCAN) in the Michigan Supreme Court challenging Enbridge Energy’s efforts to build an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac.

Two sandhill cranes dance in the Western Arctic, in the area close to Lake Teshekpuk. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release November 13, 2025

The Trump Administration Announces Rollback of a Rule that Helped Protect the Western Arctic from Harmful Oil and Gas Drilling

The Department of the Interior announced it will finalize the rescission of common-sense rules aimed at better protecting ecologically sensitive public lands including Teshekpuk Lake

Caribou make their way across the Teshekpuk Lake area of northern Alaska. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Article November 12, 2025

The Step-by-Step Plan to Sell Off the Arctic, and What You Can Do About It

The Trump administration and Congress have waged an all-out assault on the Arctic. Here are three actions you can take to protect it.

Caribou in the Western Arctic around the Teshekpuk Lake area. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release November 11, 2025

Exploratory oil and gas drilling and seismic exploration move forward in the Western Arctic

Bureau of Land Management issues an environmental study to authorize ConocoPhillips’ winter drilling and seismic projects in Teshekpuk Lake and Colville River Special Areas

JJ Waters stands in the surf along the shore near her home in Pensacola Beach, Florida. (Gregg Pachkowski for Earthjustice)
Article November 11, 2025

Trump’s Ocean Drilling Order Puts Coastal Communities at Risk. Again.

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.

document November 10, 2025

Line 5 Contested Case Post-Hearing Brief of the Bad River Band

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa submitted a post-hearing brief to the administrative law judge overseeing the contested case challenge to Wisconsin’s approval for Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 reroute.

Clockwise, from top-left: (David Shindle for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission),  (Kelvin Gorospe / NOAA), (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice), (Edwin Remsberg / Getty Images), (Gerald Herbert / AP), (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice), (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / US Coast Guard), (Matteo Colombo / Getty Images)
feature November 4, 2025

Earthjustice Program Report: Fall 2025

Together with our clients, we’re wielding the power of the law across 700 legal matters to protect people and our planet. With deep gratitude, we are pleased to share highlights of this work, which is made possible by partners like you.

Cape fur seals swim around Dyer Island on the West Coast of South Africa. (Roger Horrocks / Getty Images)
From the Experts: Victory November 3, 2025

Legal Wins in South Africa Protect Communities and the Environment From Fossil Fuel Expansion

Groups fighting the buildout of oil and gas projects defend climate, justice, and the rule of law.

Representatives from the Kids Clean Air Force pose next to hand delivered comments from Americans nationwide to the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. opposing the EPA's planned rollback of greenhouse gas regulations from fossil fuel plants and transportation. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice)
feature November 3, 2025

Climate & Energy Program Report

Earthjustice is fighting back to defend climate progress and the clean energy economy from dangerous attempts to drag us backward.

Clockwise, from top-left: (Jerry Neal / CPW), (SimonSkafar / GettyImages), (Courtney Couch / NOAA), (Zach Stern / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), (K. King / USFWS), (Zara / 500px), (Lisa Hupp / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), (New Zealand Department of Conservation), (jacobeukman / Getty Images), (Troy Harrison / Getty Images)
feature November 3, 2025

Biodiversity Program Report

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.

A family salvages belongings from the rubble of their home after it collapsed during Hurricane Melissa's passage through Cuba on Oct. 29, 2025. (Yamil Lage / AFP)
Article October 29, 2025

Climate Change Is Making Hurricanes More Intense

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Brooks Range mountains, Alaska. (Patrick J. Endres / Getty Images)
Article October 23, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Prepping to Sell off Alaska’s Arctic to Oil and Gas Companies

In a series of recent moves, the administration is opening most of the vast and precious Arctic ecosystem to drilling.

Caribou on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (Florian Schulz / protectthearctic.org)
Press Release October 23, 2025

Trump Administration Opens the Entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas Leasing

At the expense of communities and our climate, this massive public lands attack auctions off treasured lands in the nation’s largest wildlife refuge to benefit fossil fuel companies

Caribou make their way across the Teshekpuk Lake area of northern Alaska. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release October 21, 2025

The Trump Administration Plans New Oil and Gas Leases in the Western Arctic — and Will Soon Finalize a Rule Repealing Protections

The Department of the Interior is taking steps to offer up millions of acres of public land for drilling in the Arctic despite the ongoing government shutdown

Protestors paddle next to the Mackinac Bridge at the Pipe Out Paddle Up Floatilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
Press Release October 21, 2025

Michigan Tribes to US Supreme Court: Don’t Bail Out Enbridge

Amicus brief asks SCOTUS to keep the Line 5 shutdown suit in state court

document October 21, 2025

Tribal Nations Amicus Brief to SCOTUS in Nessel v. Enbridge

Ten Tribal Nations located in Michigan filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Enbridge’s “underhanded procedural tactics” in a case pitting the State of Michigan against the Canadian oil pipeline company.

Press Release October 8, 2025

Karankawa and Friends Celebrate Rediscovery of Indigenous Village and Seek Official Protection from the State of Texas

A local scientist and historian alerted the state to what they found at the site along the Corpus Christi Gulf Coast

Protestors stand on shore after the Pipe Out Paddle Up Flotilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City, Michigan, in 2022. Protestors paddled out in the water in canoes and kayaks holding signs to protest the pipeline. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
Article October 6, 2025

An Oil Tunnel is Threatening the Great Lakes

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.