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document December 16, 2025

Bad River Band Challenge to USACE Permit for Line 5 Reroute

Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa against the US Army Corps of Engineers for unlawfully granting Canadian company Enbridge a permit for the construction of a new 41-mile section of its Line 5 oil pipeline.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Brooks Range mountains, Alaska. (Patrick J. Endres / Getty Images)
Article December 16, 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.

Lazzlo Jenkins, a member of Agroecology Commons, cuts flowers at the organization's demonstration farm in El Sobrante, California. An Earthjustice lawsuit helped restore grant funding for the organization. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Article: Victory December 12, 2025

5 of Our Top Legal Wins From 2025

The onslaught of environmental attacks from polluting industries and their allies in the Trump administration is not slowing down – but neither is the pace of our litigation.

A snowy owl in the Western Arctic. Earthjustice has fought for decades on multiple fronts to protect this irreplaceable region. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Update December 11, 2025

We’re Suing to Stop Arctic Oil Exploration

An exploratory project in the Western Arctic would harm wildlife, sensitive ecosystems, and Alaska Native communities.

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

Lawsuit Challenges Federal Approval of Harmful Oil Exploration in Alaska’s Western Arctic

Interior approved ConocoPhillips’ plan to explore for more oil near its Willow project without addressing the harm it will cause to wildlife and sensitive ecosystems

document December 11, 2025

Western Arctic Exploration Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-led grassroots organization seek to overturn the Trump administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ winter seismic and exploration drilling program in the Western Arctic.

Protestors stand on shore after the Pipe Out Paddle Up Flotilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City, Michigan, in 2022. Protestors paddled out in the water in canoes and kayaks holding signs to protest the pipeline. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
Article December 10, 2025

An Oil Pipeline is Threatening the Great Lakes

The Line 5 pipeline has already leaked over 1 million gallons of oil to date and threatens the Great Lakes. Time is running out to stop one company’s dangerous plans to keep the oil flowing.

Press Release December 4, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Senate Vote Reopening Arctic Refuge to Oil Drilling

Senators use Congressional Review Act to reinstate Trump-era plan maximizing oil drilling

Press Release December 4, 2025

Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Trump EPA Final Rule That Delays Methane Pollution Protections from Oil and Gas Industry

Unlawful delay ignores health risks, energy waste, widespread opposition

document December 3, 2025

Petition for Review of Methane Compliance Rule

Health, environment, and community groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency’s rushed and unlawful final rule to delay protections against methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

A controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill sends towers of fire hundreds of feet into the air over the Gulf of Mexico on June 9, 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / US Coast Guard)
Update December 3, 2025

Government Rejects New Drilling Proposal from the Company Behind the Deepwater Horizon Spill

What’s happening: The federal government has rejected an initial proposal by BP, the company behind the worst oil spill in U.S. history, to build a new, ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision came after Members of Congress sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, urging the agency not to…

Press Release November 20, 2025

Trump Propone Expansión Masiva de Perforación Marítima en Aguas Públicas Protegidas en Alaska, California y Cerca de Florida

Se prevé que el plan de perforación en alta mar encuentre una fuerte oposición dentro de la opinión pública

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

Trump Plans to Drill 1.27 Billion Acres of Ocean. Here’s How We’re Fighting Back.

We’ve successfully challenged Trump’s past offshore oil lease sales that broke the law at the expense of coastal communities, and we’re ready to win again.

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.