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Tania Galloni (Saul Martinez for Earthjustice). Steve Mashuda (Jovelle Tamayo for Earthjustice). Hana Vizcarra (Matt Roth for Earthjustice). David Henkin (Elyse Butler for Earthjustice).
feature September 8, 2025

The Earthjustice Lawyers Taking on the Trump Administration

Meet some of the lawyers behind our cases, and learn how they’re defending our land, air, and water against the Trump administration’s unprecedented threats.

Coal mines in the Powder River Basin. More than 80% of the federal coal applied for under paused leases is in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana.
(WildEarth Guardians / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release September 4, 2025

Unprecedented House Vote Could Roll Back Plan That Ended New Coal Leasing in Powder River Basin

House passes Congressional Review Act resolution that could upend public lands management system

document September 2, 2025

Opposition Letter to HJ Res 104 – Powder River Basin CRA

Organizations write on behalf of millions of members and supporters to oppose H.J. Res. 104/S.J. Res.61, a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval to rescind the Bureau of Land Management Miles City Field Office’s 2024 Resource Management Plan Amendment that ended new coal leasing in Montana’s Powder River Basin.

A photographer makes pictures of old-growth trees in the Siuslaw National Forest in western Oregon. (David Herasimtschuk)
feature August 27, 2025

The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands

These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.

Área talada al norte de la bahía Thorne, en la isla Príncipe de Gales, en terrenos del Servicio Forestal de EE. UU., dentro del Bosque Nacional Tongass, Alaska. (David Herasimtschuk para Earthjustice)
Press Release August 27, 2025

Respuesta de Earthjustice al Ataque de la Administración Trump Contra Bosques Nacionales

La Regla Sin Carreteras ha protegido millones de acres de tierras públicas estadounidenses durante una generación.

document August 27, 2025

Action Tool Kit: Protecting our Roadless Forests

One of the most important land protection measure of our lifetimes — The Roadless Rule — is under attack. The Roadless Rule has protected 58 million acres of our forest lands for more than a generation, but the Trump administration wants to undo these protections in all but two states in the name of profit. We won’t let that happen — and we need your voice.

Stormy Hamar, a Haida artist and carver and a member of the Organized Village of Kasaan Tribal Council, is working to protect the remaining old-growth trees on Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
Article August 27, 2025

What the Tongass Needs is Time to Heal, Not More Logging

The Organized Village of Kasaan is fighting alongside other Southeast Alaska tribes and forest advocates to defend the Tongass National Forest.

Clearcut area north of Thorne Bay on Prince of Wales Island on U.S. Forest Service land within the Tongass National Forest, Alaska. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 27, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Attack on Cherished National Forests

The Roadless Rule has protected millions of acres of U.S. public lands for a generation

Zack Porter, Executive Director of Standing Trees, in a mature eastern hardwood forest in Telephone Gap, Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont. The largest roadless areas in Vermont are found in the Green Mountain National Forest. (Kurt Budliger for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 27, 2025

Trump Administration Attempt to Repeal Roadless Rule Met With Widespread Opposition

Agriculture Department initiates process targeting bedrock conservation policy that protects 45 million acres of national forests

The migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Everglades on July 4, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
Press Release: Victory August 21, 2025

Judge Halts Operations at Everglades Detention Center with Preliminary Injunction

Decision means the facility must wind down operations in an orderly fashion within 60 days

En un fallo de 82 páginas, la jueza Kathleen Williams citó amplias pruebas que demuestran el daño a los Everglades causado por la operación de la instalación, construida sin la revisión ambiental exigida por ley.
Press Release: Victory August 21, 2025

Jueza Detiene Operaciones en el Centro de Detención de los Everglades con una Orden Judicial Preliminar

En un fallo de 82 páginas, la jueza Kathleen Williams citó amplias pruebas que demuestran el daño a los Everglades causado por la operación de la instalación, construida sin la revisión ambiental exigida por la ley

Caribou on the coastal plane of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (Florian Schulz / protectthearctic.org)
Article August 15, 2025

What Will We Lose if Oil and Gas Drilling Expands in Arctic?

Aggressive new drilling proposed in northern Alaska poses grave risks to the planet — and to a vast and rare Arctic ecosystem.

A helicopter extinguishing a wildfire on a mountain at night. (Konstantin Sutyagin / Getty Images)
feature August 14, 2025

Five Trump Policies Making Extreme Weather More Dangerous

The Trump administration’s energy and environmental policies are accelerating climate change — and a warming planet means more extreme weather.

Corn Springs Campground is located deep in a canyon of the Chuckwalla Mountains. Situated adjacent to a stand of California fan palms, this oasis supports abundant wildlife and is an important stopping place for migratory birds. (Kyle Sullivan / BLM)
Press Release August 11, 2025

Organizations Seek to Intervene in Lawsuit to Protect Chuckwalla National Monument

Conservation, veteran, and recreation groups file for right to defend Chuckwalla National Monument designation that protects critical Southern California public lands

document August 11, 2025

Chuckwalla National Monument Motion to Intervene

The motion to intervene and brief in the Torongo and Blue Ribbon Coalition v. Burgum lawsuit.

The Rosebud coal mine in Colstrip, Montana, north of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. (EcoFlight)
Press Release August 5, 2025

Trump Administration Approves Massive Expansion at Montana’s Rosebud Coal Mine

Expansion allows mine to continue destroying Montana land, air, and waters for decades to come

document July 21, 2025

Alaska Opposition Letter to CRA for RMPs

Letter to Speaker Johnson and Minority Leader Jeffries in opposition to H.J. Res. 106, the Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s 2024 Central Yukon Resource Management Plan.

Coal mines in the Powder River Basin. More than 80% of the federal coal applied for under paused leases is in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana.
(WildEarth Guardians / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Update July 18, 2025

Government Signals Plan to Reopen Powder River Basin to Coal Development

We’ve fought too hard to leave coal in the past, where it belongs, to let Trump drag us backward.