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Press Release March 26, 2026

Maryland Latest Site For Rapid and Reckless Expansion of Immigration Detention

Local groups submit amicus brief to prevent further construction on retrofitting warehouse

Press Release March 26, 2026

Nuevo Lugar en Maryland Para Rápida e Imprudente Expansión de Detención de Inmigrantes

Grupos locales presentan escrito de amicus curiae para impedir la construcción de un almacén en proceso de reacondicionamiento

A male greater sage-grouse performs a spring courtship ritual in Carbon County, Wyoming. (Noppadol Paothong)
Press Release March 26, 2026

Lawsuit Filed Over Trump Administration Abandonment of Sage-Grouse Protections

Suit claims Bureau of Land Management walked away from 2015 commitments to sage-grouse to benefit oil and gas industry

Border walls, such as the one in Nacos, Arizona, have already impacted the environment, disrupting the natural migration of animals and causing flooding.
(Getty Images)
Press Release March 26, 2026

Trump Administration’s Border Plan Is A “Ticking Time Bomb” According to New Analysis

Border wall and water buoys pose an inevitable and irreversible threat to human life, property, and the environment

The shift to state-of-the-art appliances in homes, such as induction stoves, offers major clean air benefits, upgrades in energy efficiency, and climate protections. (Matt Roth for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory March 26, 2026

Court Upholds Montgomery County’s All-Electric Building Code

Federal ruling affirms state authority to cut pollution, lower energy costs, and advance healthier buildings

The Flathead National Forest in Montana. (Your Forests Your Future / U.S. Forest Service)
Press Release March 24, 2026

Groups Intend to Sue Trump Administration Over Flathead National Forest Timber Project

60-day notice states recently-approved West Reservoir Project could harm grizzly bears and bull trout

Press Release March 24, 2026

EPA Hands Phoenix an Ozone Pollution Waiver

Residents in the Phoenix area will continue to be exposed to dangerous ozone air pollution with this free pass

An expansive view of the Bull Mountains in Montana. (Northern Plains Resource Council)
Press Release March 23, 2026

Montana Groups File Appeal Over Bull Mountains Coal Mine AM6 Expansion

Groups claim Montana DEQ failed to analyze impacts to, water, agriculture, wildlife, climate and the community

Diane Wilson gathers nurdles, or plastic pellets, in Seadrift, Texas, on Jan. 18, 2026. (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice)
Press Release March 19, 2026

Waterkeeper Moves to Intervene in Texas’ Lawsuit Over Dow Chemical’s Plastic Pollution

Local group hopes to join the suit to ensure environmental enforcement that would prevent plastic pollution from entering San Antonio Bay

Caribou in the Western Arctic, near the Lake Teshekpuk area. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release March 18, 2026

Western Arctic Lease Sale Auctions Off More than a Million Acres of Ecologically Sensitive Lands for Oil and Gas Drilling

Vast natural areas, long protected from extraction, were included in 187 tracts that oil and gas companies bid on for oil development

Steam billows from the coal-fired Craig Station power plant Nov. 18, 2021, in Craig, Colorado. (Rick Bowmer / AP)
Press Release March 18, 2026

Groups Take Trump Administration to Court Over Illegal Craig Coal Plant Extension

Public interest groups and state of Colorado challenge DOE’s emergency order

Electrical lines in Washington state with Mount Rainier in the background. (Mint Images / Getty Images)
Press Release March 17, 2026

BPA’s Energy Market Choice Will Spike Customer Rates, Harm Reliability, and Roll Back Clean Energy Progress

The market choice will increase energy costs for customers while Bonneville Power Administration attempts to scapegoat salmon for rising energy costs

The coal-fired Centralia Power Plant, owned by TransAlta Corporation and located in Washington State, began operating in 1971. The plant’s air emissions harm human health and create haze pollution in what should be our most pristine areas, including Mt. Rainier, Olympic and North Cascades National Parks. (Steven Baltakatei Sandoval / CC BY-SA 4.0)
Press Release March 17, 2026

Earthjustice and Sierra Club Blast Trump Administration Order to Keep Washington’s Last Coal Plant Open

Washington residents deserve cleaner air and more affordable, reliable, clean energy

Clean Air Laredo Coalition and Rio Grande International Study Center rally in front of Midwest Sterilizer facility in Laredo, TX. The facility ranks among the most polluting facilities in the nation of ethylene oxide emissions. (RGISC)
Press Release March 16, 2026

EPA Yields to Industry in Air Pollution Rule for Chemical Manufacturing Plants

The final rule leaves communities around these facilities vulnerable to dangerous, cancer-causing air pollutants

Vectren’s proposed 850 MW gas plant was planned to be built on the site of its existing AB Brown coal-fired power plant located in Posey County near Evansville, Indiana. (Wikipedia / CC BY 3.0)
Press Release March 16, 2026

Groups Challenge Illegal Order Halting the Retirement of Indiana Power Plants

Forcing the polluting coal power plants to remain open is unnecessary and threatens to increase electricity bills and pollution

"We have been told by the Trump administration that clean air is a priority for all Americans," said Jennifer Hadayia, Executive Director of Air Alliance Houston, an ECJP grant recipient. "The illegal cancellation of these clean air grants will do the exact opposite." (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice)
Press Release March 16, 2026

Nonprofits, Tribes, and Local Governments Appeal to Restore EPA Grant Program

Terminating these programs leaves communities more vulnerable to pollution and disasters

A Rice’s whale — one of the world’s rarest whales — observed in the western Gulf of Mexico in 2024. The species is the only large whale species that lives year-round in North American waters. (Paul Nagelkirk / NOAA Fisheries - NMFS ESA/MMPA Permit #21938)
Press Release March 16, 2026

Trump Administration Trying to Strip Protections From Gulf Marine Life

Move would threaten rare whales, fish, rays, sea turtles, and corals

Press Release March 16, 2026

Trump Administration Approves BP’s First New Gulf Oilfield Since Deepwater Horizon

Ultra-deepwater drilling project in greater depths than BP’s 2010 disaster, the worst oil spill in U.S. history