Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, alongside Tribal and conservation groups, filed a motion to join a lawsuit to defend the Biden administration’s 2024 decision ending new coal leasing on public lands in Wyoming and Eastern Montana’s Powder River Basin.
Adam Ratchenski, Attorney, Midwest Office: “Nobody wants their water poisoned or their property values torpedoed in order to keep Canadian oil and gas flowing through the Great Lakes.”
Kirsten Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “When you get rid of the definition, you’re going to still have a fight. You now no longer have that common basis of understanding of what is a definition.”
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals approved a motion from the federal government to dismiss its appeal of a decision limiting road building in grizzly bear and bull trout habitat in Flathead National Forest.
Amid a flurry of anti-environment executive orders on his first day in office, Trump issued an order to revoke former president Biden’s protection of millions of acres of undeveloped public waters from future oil and gas drilling.
Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, Oceans at Earthjustice, explains the legal challenge to block the Trump administration’s illegal ocean drilling plan.
Moneen Nasmith, Attorney, National Climate: “It’s very problematic insofar as we are imposing the costs of this industry in such a concentrated and acute way on such a small part of the country.”
Debbie Chizewer, Managing Attorney, Midwest Office: “It is laughable to see Line 5 on this list. It’s a pipeline that carries crude oil from Canada to Canada and will not increase U.S. capacity or respond to Trump’s declared energy emergency.”
The Michigan Court of Appeals struck down a challenge by Tribal Nations and green groups who sought to overturn the Michigan Public Service Commission’s decision to permit Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project beneath the Straits of Mackinac.
