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

For decades, we’ve defended our public lands for the benefit of all people, and we’ll continue fighting back as long as Trump’s attacks continue.

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

Plaintiffs Friends of the Everglade and Center for Biological Diversity respectfully file this motion for expedited relief seeking entry of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo during the pendency of this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to enforce the National Environmental Policy Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and state and local laws prohibiting the ongoing construction of an immigration detention center within the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.

El plan amenaza con socavar miles de millones de dólares que los contribuyentes estadounidenses invirtieron en la restauración del emblemático humedal ubicado en el sur de la Florida

Plan threatens to undermine billions U.S. taxpayers invested in restoring Florida Everglades

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

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

The bill would permanently codify the U.S. Forest Service’s roadless rule into federal law, protecting over 50 million acres of national forests from logging and other development

Leasing more of our public lands to coal companies and padding their bottom lines will do nothing to promote energy security or reduce costs for everyday Americans.

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

The bill represents one of the most anti-environmental bills ever debated in the U.S. Congress.

Together, we can fight back to protect our families.

Blaine Miller-McFeeley, Senior Legislative Representative, Earthjustice: “These heavily redacted FOIA records confirm what we already know: that the Trump administration is selling off and selling out our public lands to benefit a wealthy few, and they’re doing it all behind closed doors. These action plans should be communicated to the public — we all have…

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.

Quotes from groups opposing forestry provisions in budget reconciliation bill.

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