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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)
feature March 31, 2025

Where the Trump Administration is Going and Where We Stand

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

More than 100,000 Native American archaeological and cultural sites, some dating to 12,000 B.C., are protected in Bears Ears National Monument. (Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
feature March 26, 2025

What You Should Know About the Antiquities Act and National Monuments

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

(Matthew Henry / Unsplash)
Press Release March 26, 2025

Environmental and Watchdog Groups Challenge Constellation’s Bid to Buy Calpine

Utility consolidation threatens to raise electricity rates and environmental pollution

In the News: The New York Times March 27, 2025

E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email

Jim Pew, Director of Federal Clean Air Practice, Earthjustice: “It’s hard to imagine how these exemptions could be lawful.”

In the News: The New York Times March 25, 2025

‘It Is Hard to Imagine a More Sweeping Agenda to Make Americans Less Healthy’

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “The most important thing to understand is that we are seeing a wholesale approach to eradicating environmental protections. This is the hatchet not the scalpel. So it’s everything from the water you drink and the air you breathe, to the food you eat and the basic products you buy. If…

(James Olstein for Earthjustice)
feature March 28, 2025

Right To Zero: Building a Zero-emissions Future

We’re creating a zero-emissions reality from coast to coast.

From the Experts March 25, 2025

D.C. is well on its way to an all-electric future

Methane gas giants push back, but D.C.’s path to cleaner air, lower bills, and climate action is clearer than ever

In the News: Yahoo News March 21, 2025

EPA Rollbacks Mean More Pollution, Less Justice for Black Communities

Marvin C. Brown IV, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “EPA is losing the E and the P from its name. It seems like the agency is really giving up on protecting the environment and human health. People will die from the unnecessary amounts of pollution.”

In the News: Living on Earth March 21, 2025

EPA Drops Major Polluter Case

Deena Tumeh, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “The Trump EPA’s decision to drop this enforcement case leaves the St. John community without sufficient federal protection, and it leaves them at the mercy of industry. It allows these emissions to continue harming people who’ve already been breathing it for years. The Trump EPA claims to care about…

In the News: MLive March 19, 2025

Trump power plant pollution rollbacks threaten Michiganders, advocates warn

Shannon Fisk, Director of State Electric Sector Advocacy, Clean Energy Program: “Just coming in with a sledgehammer and destroying it all makes absolutely no sense and will be terrible for the public.”

The Rosebud coal mine in Colstrip, Montana, north of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. (EcoFlight)
Article February 24, 2025

Our Communities Can’t Afford More Coal Pollution, So We’re Going to Court

Coal is an expensive, dirty, and dangerous energy source. We’re not going back to it.

Press Release March 18, 2025

Farmers and Advocates Seek Preliminary Injunction Requiring USDA to Restore Purged Climate Webpages

Farmers have been stripped of vital digital resources due to the Trump Administration’s climate webpage purge; Motion seeks to restore access and prevent additional webpage removals

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection took this photo of the waste coal ash pile at the Scrubgrass Power Plant, in Kennerdell, Venango County.
Press Release: Victory March 7, 2025

Scrubgrass Cryptomining Facility to Expedite Removal of Toxic Coal Ash ‘Mountain’

Unpermitted massive coal ash pile growing for years near the Allegheny River will now be removed by next year, preventing contamination

North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. (EcoFlight)
Press Release February 20, 2025

Legal Intervention Defends Powder River Basin Coal Leasing Decision

Motion to intervene filed in a lawsuit from Montana and Wyoming

Lilian Bello spoke against a proposed natural gas plant in Oxnard, California, that, if allowed, would join three existing gas plants on the city’s beach.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
feature May 13, 2024

A Fossil Fuel Company Tried to Put a Dirty Gas Plant on a Beautiful Coastline. It Failed.

Earthjustice’s work in state energy proceedings like California is driving the state, and the nation’s, clean energy transition.

In the News: The Seattle Times March 4, 2025

What Trump’s order on cutting federal forests could mean for the Pacific Northwest

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “Executive orders direct other agencies to take action, and they certainly set policy and tone. But they cannot and do not replace requirements of congressionally enacted laws.”

In the News: CNN March 3, 2025

Keep the lights on or mine Bitcoin? How crypto is starting to suck up clean energy

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “If you use all that cheap, clean hydro(power) for crypto mining, then humans and small businesses can’t use it and then they have to go somewhere else for that energy — and often it is fossil fuel-based.”

In the News: The New York Times March 2, 2025

‘Full on Fight Club’: How Trump Is Crushing U.S. Climate Policy

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “This is not the kind of stately tennis match of the usual switch-over in administrations. This is full on Fight Club.”