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Press Release November 18, 2025

Demanda Impugna Primera Oferta de la 2da Administración Trump Para Petróleo en Alta Mar

La oferta de petróleo en el Golfo está programada para el 10 de diciembre.

People gather at the beach after sunset with offshore oil and gas platform Esther in the distance in Seal Beach, California. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)
Update November 18, 2025

We’re Suing the Trump Administration Over Its Unlawful Gulf of Mexico Oil Sale

The Interior Department plans to hold an 80-million-acre oil sale in the Gulf of Mexico on Dec. 10.

Press Release November 18, 2025

Lawsuit Challenges First Offshore Oil Sale of New Trump Administration

Gulf oil sale scheduled for December 10

document November 18, 2025

First Trump Offshore Lease Sale Legal Complaint

Lawsuit challenges first offshore oil sale of the second Trump administration term.

JJ Waters stands in the surf along the shore near her home in Pensacola Beach, Florida. (Gregg Pachkowski for Earthjustice)
Article November 18, 2025

Trump’s Ocean Drilling Sale Risks Another Disaster for Gulf Communities — We’re Suing

15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, the Trump administration is illegally selling off nearly 80 million acres of public waters in the Gulf for oil and gas drilling.

document November 17, 2025

Western Arctic CRA Opposition Letter

Groups oppose S.J.Res. 80 and H.J.Res. 124, which would utilize the Congressional Review Act to strike down the Bureau of Land Management’s 2022 Integrated Activity Plan Record of Decision for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

document November 17, 2025

Arctic Refuge CRA Opposition Letter

Groups oppose S.J.Res. 91 and H.J.Res.131, which would utilize the Congressional Review Act to strike down the Bureau of Land Management’s 2024 Record of Decision for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain Leasing Program.

document November 14, 2025

Line 5 Michigan Supreme Court Brief by Tribes and Environmental Groups

The Bay Mills Indian Community, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi represented by Earthjustice filed their opening brief alongside the Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) and Michigan Climate Action Network (MiCAN) in the Michigan Supreme Court challenging Enbridge Energy’s efforts to build an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac.

Two sandhill cranes dance in the Western Arctic, in the area close to Lake Teshekpuk. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release November 13, 2025

The Trump Administration Announces Rollback of a Rule that Helped Protect the Western Arctic from Harmful Oil and Gas Drilling

The Department of the Interior announced it will finalize the rescission of common-sense rules aimed at better protecting ecologically sensitive public lands including Teshekpuk Lake

Caribou make their way across the Teshekpuk Lake area of northern Alaska. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Article November 12, 2025

The Step-by-Step Plan to Sell Off the Arctic, and What You Can Do About It

The Trump administration and Congress have waged an all-out assault on the Arctic. Here are three actions you can take to protect it.

Caribou in the Western Arctic around the Teshekpuk Lake area. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release November 11, 2025

Exploratory oil and gas drilling and seismic exploration move forward in the Western Arctic

Bureau of Land Management issues an environmental study to authorize ConocoPhillips’ winter drilling and seismic projects in Teshekpuk Lake and Colville River Special Areas

document November 10, 2025

Line 5 Contested Case Post-Hearing Brief of the Bad River Band

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa submitted a post-hearing brief to the administrative law judge overseeing the contested case challenge to Wisconsin’s approval for Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 reroute.

Clockwise, from top-left: (David Shindle for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission),  (Kelvin Gorospe / NOAA), (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice), (Edwin Remsberg / Getty Images), (Gerald Herbert / AP), (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice), (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / US Coast Guard), (Matteo Colombo / Getty Images)
feature November 4, 2025

Earthjustice Program Report: Fall 2025

Together with our clients, we’re wielding the power of the law across 700 legal matters to protect people and our planet. With deep gratitude, we are pleased to share highlights of this work, which is made possible by partners like you.

Cape fur seals swim around Dyer Island on the West Coast of South Africa. (Roger Horrocks / Getty Images)
From the Experts: Victory November 3, 2025

Legal Wins in South Africa Protect Communities and the Environment From Fossil Fuel Expansion

Groups fighting the buildout of oil and gas projects defend climate, justice, and the rule of law.

Representatives from the Kids Clean Air Force pose next to hand delivered comments from Americans nationwide to the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. opposing the EPA's planned rollback of greenhouse gas regulations from fossil fuel plants and transportation. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice)
feature November 3, 2025

Climate & Energy Program Report

Earthjustice is fighting back to defend climate progress and the clean energy economy from dangerous attempts to drag us backward.

Clockwise, from top-left: (Jerry Neal / CPW), (SimonSkafar / GettyImages), (Courtney Couch / NOAA), (Zach Stern / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), (K. King / USFWS), (Zara / 500px), (Lisa Hupp / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), (New Zealand Department of Conservation), (jacobeukman / Getty Images), (Troy Harrison / Getty Images)
feature November 3, 2025

Biodiversity Program Report

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.

A family salvages belongings from the rubble of their home after it collapsed during Hurricane Melissa's passage through Cuba on Oct. 29, 2025. (Yamil Lage / AFP)
Article October 29, 2025

Climate Change Is Making Hurricanes More Intense

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Brooks Range mountains, Alaska. (Patrick J. Endres / Getty Images)
Article October 23, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Prepping to Sell off Alaska’s Arctic to Oil and Gas Companies

In a series of recent moves, the administration is opening most of the vast and precious Arctic ecosystem to drilling.