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The Trump administration is opening millions of acres of ocean to oil companies. New offshore drilling risks huge oil spills.

What’s happening: BP, the company behind the worst oil spill in U.S. history, is asking the Trump administration to allow it to drill a new, ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. Why it matters: BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 killed 11 people and released over 5 million barrels of oil that blanketed the…

BPA plans to join the Markets+ energy market over a larger Western one; the choice would cause a spike in energy bills and reduce access to clean energy for Northwest power customers

The Bay Mills Indian Community submitted comments on the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Line 5 Tunnel Project.

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

Thom Cmar, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The reality is that this technology is available and some power plants are using it and it’s been shown to be cost effective. The technology is out there to achieve greater reductions of pollution that are happening now. And EPA can’t avoid that regardless of which administration is in…

Analysis of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa supporting the Band’s determination under CWA 401(a)(2) that the proposed Enbridge Line 5 Reroute will violate the Band’s water quality requirements.

This is a major early step in the recent settlement of Hawai‘i’s youth climate lawsuit, Navahine v. HDOT

A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

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

Comments re: rescinding the definition of “Harm” under the Endangered Species Act, filed by Earthjustice on behalf of 66 organizations.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a rollback of the Roadless Rule

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

Earthjustice petition for review of wastewater treatment standards for coal-fired power plants (ELGs) filed May 30, 2024. Earthjustice is challenging the 2034 retirement loophole and weaker standards for what the Environmental Protection Agency is calling “unmanaged” leachate, leachate that has already leaked out of coal ash ponds and landfills and contaminated groundwater.

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.

Enbridge’s oil pipeline construction would pollute wetlands, rivers, and streams

Public interest groups challenge the Department of Energy’s sham order

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.