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

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.

Utility consolidation threatens to raise electricity rates and environmental pollution

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

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…

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

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

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.”

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…

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

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.”

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

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

Motion to intervene filed in a lawsuit from Montana and Wyoming

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

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 public utility commissions, Earthjustice is helping communities push for clean, affordable electricity for all.

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.”