Liz Moran, Policy Advocate, Northeast Office: “We have our state climate law on the books, and it doesn’t appear that the Assembly is committed to passing the laws we need to actually meet the mandates of the law they had once championed.”

The agreement follows a lawsuit filed in 2023 by the North Oyster Bay Baymen’s Association and the Center for Food Safety, both represented by Earthjustice, challenging the Service’s decades-long failure to prevent harm from industrial shellfish dredging.

H.R. 2925, the so-called “Mining Regulatory Clarity Act,” represents an unprecedented, de facto giveaway of America’s cherished public lands to mining corporations, upending and reversing over one hundred years of public land law precedent.

H.R. 764, the “Trust the Science Act,” undermines the integrity of the Endangered Species Act by forcing the reinstatement of the Trump administration’s scientifically indefensible rule delisting the gray wolf.

“People should care about what’s going on here because all of us benefit from the goods movement system — no matter where you live.”

These protective standards keep communities safe and help make climate progress

Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office: “The bottom line is that the [Army Corps of Engineers] is open for business and the only thing standing in the way of 404 permitting now is Florida’s refusal to transfer applications.”

Groups oppose H.R. 3195, efforts to void the Boundary Waters area mineral withdrawal.

Earthjustice, representing Oceana, prevails in lawsuit to recover Pacific sardines to protect whales, sea lions, seabirds, and other ocean animals that rely on the small fish for food

Conservation groups file a 135-page response to the numerous motions to dismiss in the Great Salt Lake lawsuit.

Attacks on the Antiquities Act are not new. Earthjustice and our partners continue to fight back.

Thom Cmar, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The two rules are necessary and complementary to each other and point in the same direction, which is that they are contaminating groundwater, they’re contaminating the surface waters that run alongside them. Both standards work in complementary ways to set a high bar that points toward cleanup and environmental…

HR 6285 would undo the Biden administration’s actions on the Arctic.

A major victory for communities living near coal ash plants, the rule closes a loophole that left over half of coal ash exempt from federal clean-up requirements.

Motion to intervene filed in support of President Biden’s monument designation near Grand Canyon

Los estándares abordarán las principales fuentes de contaminación climática y protegerán la salud pública

With more than a dozen major environmental rules recently finalized, here’s what the administration should do as soon as possible to secure a lasting impact.

Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, NW Energy Coalition, Southern Environmental Law Center, Sustainable FERC Project, and WEACT for Environmental Justice comments on Department of Energy proposed rule 216(h) of the Federal Power Act.