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Charlene Alden stands outside her home in Lame Deer, Montana on July 2, 2025. Alden is the Environmental Protection Director for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe. (Louise Johns for Earthjustice)
Article September 25, 2025

A Tribe Takes on Coal

The Northern Cheyenne have a long history of defending their land. Now, they’re showing how clean energy progress can still be made.

The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature September 23, 2025

The Intermountain West: Regional Spotlight

Our teams in Bozeman, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, have spent decades fighting to defend the web of life, to protect people’s health, and to advance a just transition to clean energy. We’re pleased to share highlights of our progress, and a glimpse at what’s next.

American athlete Carl Lewis won the 100m gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in August 1984 in Los Angeles, California. (PERRIN / TARDY / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
From the Experts September 23, 2025

LA Should Go for the Gold When It Comes to Electric Transit Buses

With the LA 2028 Olympics looming, LA Metro should keep pace with Olympic cities.

document September 23, 2025

Judicial Review Fact Sheet

Earthjustice and Earthjustice Action fact sheet on attacks on judicial review in Congress.

The Toxic Substances Control Act, the nation's main chemical safety law, requires EPA to evaluate chemicals used in everyday products — from children’s toys to paint strippers. (Lisa Anna / Unsplash)
Press Release September 23, 2025

Trump’s EPA Plan Would Downplay the Dangers of Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Products

The proposed changes weaken how the agency reviews toxic chemicals

Earthjustice y nuestros socios trabajan para proteger la salud infantil. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
From the Experts September 23, 2025

La ‘Cura’ de MAHA Es Una Venta de Humo Con Bata de Laboratorio

La estrategia filtrada de MAHA protege a las corporaciones, no a la salud de los niños.

Old-growth trees on Kosciusko Island, Tongass National Forest, Prince of Wales, Alaska. The Roadless Rule protects about half of the Tongass, the crown jewel of the National Forest system and home to nearly one-third of all old-growth temperate rainforest remaining in the entire world. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
Press Release September 23, 2025

Proposal to Scrap Roadless Rule Draws Public Outcry

At least half a million say ‘No’ in initial round of public comment

Press Release September 19, 2025

Corte de Apelaciones del Distrito de Columbia Falla a Favor de la Inacción de FERC Sobre la Propuesta de Gasoducto en Puerto Rico

La decisión de la corte añadió que FERC justificó su decisión de no imponer la sanción de inmediato con razones de “prudencia” para “estabilizar la red eléctrica de Puerto Rico en preparación para la temporada de huracanes de 2023”.

Press Release September 19, 2025

D.C. Circuit Rules in Favor of FERC’s Inaction on Puerto Rico’s Pipeline Proposal

The Court’s decision added that FERC provided “prudential” reasons for forgoing immediate enforcement to “stabilize Puerto Rico’s electrical grid in preparation for the 2023 hurricane season.”

Press Release September 19, 2025

Air Quality Control Commission Establishes Health-Protective Standards for Toxic Pollutants

Rulemaking a critical step toward reining in toxic pollution in Colorado

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)
Press Release September 19, 2025

Michigan Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge to Line 5 Oil Tunnel

Court will hear arguments by Michigan Tribes and environmental advocates

document September 19, 2025

Roadless Rule NGO Sign-On Letter 9-19-25

329 organizations joined a sign-on letter opposing the proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule.

document September 19, 2025

Line 5 Michigan Supreme Court Order on Application

The Michigan Supreme Court said it will hear a challenge brought by Tribal Nations located in Michigan and environmental advocates who argue that the Michigan Public Service Commission broke state laws in approving Enbridge’s proposal to construct a massive oil tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac.

A view of the northwest section of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona. (U.S. Department of the Interior)
Press Release September 18, 2025

Groups Denounce Gosar Bills to Nullify Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National and Ironwood Forest National Monuments

Bills would undermine critical land protections and the leadership of local Tribes

Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen speaks during a Climate Action Campaign press conference at the U.S. Capitol about the EPA’s plan to rescind air pollution regulations around greenhouse gases from transportation and fossil fuel power plants. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice)
Article September 18, 2025

We Won’t Let the Trump Administration Abandon Federal Climate Responsibility

Environmental advocates delivered 225,000 public comments telling the EPA to do its job by protecting us from the climate crisis.

Drinking water is one of the most common routes of exposure to PFAS. PFAS have polluted the tap water of at least 16 million people in 33 states and Puerto Rico, as well as groundwater in at least 38 states.
(Yipeng Ge / Getty Images)
Update September 18, 2025

EPA Backtracks on First-Ever Limits on Forever Chemicals

Highly toxic PFAS chemicals are present in the drinking water of as many as 200 million Americans.

PUSH Buffalo's executive director, Dawn Wells-Clyburn, stands outside of the organization's training center. (Brandon Watson for Earthjustice)
Press Release September 17, 2025

Nonprofits, Tribes, and Local Governments Appeal Dismissal of EPA Program Termination

Groups vow to keep fighting the wholesale termination of the grant program

Environmental Protection Agency scientists sort samples for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the EPA Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response in Cincinnati. (Joshua A. Bickel / AP)
Press Release September 17, 2025

EPA Reaffirms Rule Designating Forever Chemicals PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances

Decision to defend Superfund designations contrasts with administration’s attempted rollback of PFAS drinking water protections just last week