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Press Release June 30, 2025

Groups File Suit Over Approval of “Boondoggle” Yazoo Pumps Project

EPA and Army Corps illegally approved costly project without considering practicable alternatives

document June 30, 2025

Yazoo Pumps Complaint

Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.

document June 26, 2025

About the Interactive Colorado Warehouse Map

The Colorado Warehouse Map provides a helpful visual of warehouse concentration throughout the state and within the Denver Metro North Front Range Ozone Nonattainment Area.

document May 5, 2025

Quote sheet for onshore reconciliation

A summary of quotes reacting to attacks on public lands contained in the House Natural Resources reconciliation bill.

More than 100,000 Native American archaeological and cultural sites, some dating to 12,000 B.C., are protected in Bears Ears National Monument. (Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
feature April 24, 2025

What You Should Know About the Antiquities Act and National Monuments

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

The Wolfman Panel in Bears Ears National Monument. (© Tim Peterson)
Press Release April 24, 2025

Report: Trump Administration Considers Attacking Six National Monuments for Energy Development

The monuments comprise over 5 million acres of national public lands across the west

The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature April 21, 2025

The Intermountain West: Regional Spotlight

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

In the News: Colorado Newsline April 17, 2025

Environmental groups warn Colorado lawmakers of risks from data center bill

Megan Kemp, Colorado Policy Advocate, Rocky Mountain Office: “(The bill) fails to provide critical safeguards for utility customers, neglects to consider impacts on communities and undermines our progress toward meeting critical climate goals.”

In the News: The Lens April 14, 2025

A Mississippi flood relief project could harm 90,000 acres of valuable wetlands. Is it worth the tradeoff?

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “This proposed project is going to impact over 90,000 acres of wetlands. That’s three times the amount that EPA prohibited in the veto. For them now to reverse course and say the veto doesn’t apply is unheard of.”

document April 13, 2025

The Antiquities Act and National Monuments

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

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

document March 27, 2025

Great Salt Lake Motion To Dismiss Decision

A state district court judge paved the way for a landmark public trust suit over Utah’s failure to protect the Great Salt Lake to move forward, despite the objections of state officials.

Press Release March 18, 2025

Tenth Circuit Affirms Public’s Right to Access Millions of Acres of Public Land

Court ruling safeguards right to access public land via corner crossing

document March 18, 2025

Corner Crossing Opinion

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed the public’s right to access millions of acres of public land across the West via corner crossing.

In the News: Four Corners Public Radio February 13, 2025

Trump picks oil and gas advocate to lead BLM

Mike Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “They claim that the federal bureau should be required to sell oil and gas leases whenever the industry wants them. If they have their way, then places that get leased to the oil industry under the Trump Administration won’t ever be the same after they get drilled.”

In the News: The Denver Post February 9, 2025

What impact will Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” have on Colorado, public lands?

Mike Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “It’s about padding the profits for Trump’s donors in the oil and gas industry. What they’re going to be doing is stockpiling federal oil and gas leases and getting Trump to do things that are going to increase demand for their product.”

In the News: The Colorado Sun January 30, 2025

Colorado law protects state streams, lakes and wetlands no matter who is in the White House, lawmakers say

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “If the Corps is really handing out permits without checking compliance to the Clean Water Act, it could hurt Colorado, so the state will have to be vigilant.”

In the News: Arizona Public Radio January 28, 2025

Judge rejects Grand Canyon monument lawsuit from Arizona lawmakers

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “We’ve been privileged to follow the lead of 11 Tribal Nations with deep cultural ties to the monument, and we will continue fighting to protect it from uranium mining and other threats so that future generations can benefit from this irreplaceable landscape.”