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The Maryland State House in Annapolis, MD. (Spartana Photography)
Press Release: Victory April 10, 2025

Maryland Lowers Energy Bills and Builds its Clean Energy Future with New Laws

Maryland General Assembly passes new laws that will lower energy costs, rein in data centers, and help Maryland achieve its clean energy goals

Assemblymember Claire Valdez speaks at the New York State Capitol during a rally on Apr. 9, 2024, to call on lawmakers to protect New York’s clean truck standard in the upcoming budget.  (Cindy Schultz for Earthjustice)
Press Release April 9, 2025

Lawmakers, Environmental Justice, and Clean Air Advocates Call on Governor Hochul to Stand Strong for Clean Air Protections

State leaders rally in Albany to urge the Governor to protect the life-saving clean truck standard in final budget and reject industry efforts to gut air protections

Logging operations in the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. President Trump issued an executive order that seeks to increase logging in the national forest system and other federal lands. (Randi Shaffer / USDA Forest Service)
Update April 9, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Put Our Federal Forests Up for Sale

If the Trump administration breaks the law to hold timber sales, we will see them in court.

Los Angeles, Calif.  
(Sean Pavone/Shutterstock)
From the Experts April 8, 2025

How California Moves Forward with the Rest of the World

While the Trump administration tries to drag us back to darker and dirtier days, California can forge ahead.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) speaks at a demonstration outside of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington on Feb. 6, 2025. Markey and other lawmakers were blocked from entering the EPA and meeting with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials. (Andrew Thomas / NurPhoto via AP)
Update April 8, 2025

We Will Not Just Watch Our Government Get Dismantled

The Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies will wreak havoc on laws that protect everyone’s health and the environment.

The downtown Los Angeles skyline bathed in smog. (Daniel Stein / Getty Images)
Press Release April 4, 2025

Earthjustice Reacts to Senate Parliamentarian Reaffirming States’ Rights to Clean their Air

State waivers for stronger tailpipe standards are not subject to the Congressional Review Act

From the Experts April 3, 2025

Medicaid, Pollution, and Policy Failures — An Overlooked Cycle

Lawmakers are gutting both Medicaid and environmental protections, endangering vulnerable communities.

The Colstrip coal-fired power plant in Montana in 2004. (Larry Mayer / Getty Images)
Press Release April 2, 2025

One of America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants Seeks Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card from Trump

Montana’s Colstrip plant asks Trump administration for clean air standard exemption

(Ceci Freed / Earthjustice)
video April 2, 2025

Legal Experts Explain the Harms of EPA’s Deregulatory Agenda

A huge array of environmental protections are on the chopping block.

document April 1, 2025

Two-Pager: New York Should Keep on Trucking with its Advanced Clean Trucks Rule

New York should not delay its Advanced Clean Trucks rule to protect New Yorkers’ health and clean the air.

In the News: Floodlight April 1, 2025

As EPA pulls back, schoolchildren could face the steepest risks

Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation for Healthy Communities, Earthjustice: “The law demands that EPA control these pollutants, and demands that EPA protect families and communities. And these impacts on these communities most heavily land on the shoulders of children. Children are more susceptible to the harms from pollutants, and these pollutants are often happening right…

In the News: Politico April 1, 2025

Trump admin. aims to undo crackdown on cancer-causing air emissions

Jim Pew, Director of Federal Clean Air Practice, Earthjustice: “I just don’t see why forcing people to breathe toxic pollution for another two years is in the national security interests of the United States.”

Earthjustice attorneys argued on behalf of community organizations in the archipelago that FERC had allowed New Fortress Energy, through its Puerto Rico subsidiary NFEnergía, to install and operate the pipeline without the legally required environmental and statutory review. (Matt Roth for Earthjustice)
Press Release April 1, 2025

Court of Appeals Must Undo Orders that Allowed the Unlawful Expansion of Methane Gas Infrastructure in Puerto Rico, Groups Argue

FERC unlawfully allowed methane gas company NFEnergía to expand its terminal infrastructure in the San Juan Bay without consulting local communities and without the required review

Press Release March 31, 2025

First-of-its-Kind Lawsuit Filed Urging New York to Release Overdue Climate Law Regulations

Regulations to reduce pollution from oil and gas and protect communities are stalled amid record-breaking heat and wildfires

The Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, an ethylene cracker plant, on the Ohio River in Potter Township, Pennsylvania. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release March 27, 2025

Trump’s EPA Offers Corporations a Roadmap to Sidestep Clean Air Protections

Move would allow chemical facilities, coal plants, and other large polluters to emit more toxic air pollution with no public transparency

View of Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake. (Nick Pedersen / Getty Images)
Press Release March 27, 2025

Judge Rejects Effort by Utah Officials to Derail Great Salt Lake Lawsuit

Utah sought to dismiss lawsuit over its failure to protect the Great Salt Lake

In the News: The New York Times March 27, 2025

E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email

Jim Pew, Director of Federal Clean Air Practice, Earthjustice: “It’s hard to imagine how these exemptions could be lawful.”

New York lawmakers, Bronx community members, and clean air advocates call on Governor Hochul to stay on course with the Advanced Clean Trucks rule. (Nydia Gutierrez / Earthjustice)
From the Experts March 26, 2025

New York Must Prevent Asthma with Advanced Clean Trucks Rule

Advanced Clean Trucks Rule saves lives and reduces tailpipe pollution, Now corporate polluters want to roll it back.