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(James Olstein for Earthjustice)
feature October 15, 2025

Right To Zero: Building a Zero-emissions Future

We’re creating a zero-emissions reality from coast to coast.

document October 14, 2025

Columbia-Snake Motion for Preliminary Injunction

Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups represented by Earthjustice filed a preliminary injunction request with a federal court in Oregon seeking emergency measures to protect endangered salmon and steelhead from harms caused by lower Snake and Columbia River dam operations. The State of Oregon filed a similar request at the same time.

A wild chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). (Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release October 14, 2025

Plaintiffs Seek Emergency Actions to Protect Imperiled Columbia Basin Salmon

Following the Trump administration’s abrupt and unilateral withdrawal from a historic agreement to restore the Columbia basin, plaintiffs return to court to prevent salmon and steelhead extinction

Press Release October 14, 2025

Following NYISO Short-Term Assessment of Reliability Report Governor Hochul Must Course-Correct by Building a Renewable Grid for the Future

Governor Hochul must accelerate transmission and battery storage to save New Yorkers money, not prop up expensive, polluting gas plants

A view of Pago Pago Harbor on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. (Leamus / Getty Images)
From the Experts October 10, 2025

How Deep Sea Mining Endangers American Samoa

The ocean is inseparably intertwined with American Samoa culture and identity. Now deep sea mining threatens it all.

The Mitchell Power Plant, a coal-fired power station, along the Ohio River in Moundsville, West Virginia. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
From the Experts October 10, 2025

Trump Administration Theatens Wastewater Treatment Standards for Coal-fired Power Plants

Coal-fired power plants discharge toxic chemicals into sources of drinking water for more than 30 million Americans.

document October 10, 2025

Earthjustice responds to NYISO’s draft 2025–2034 Comprehensive Reliability Plan

Earthjustice sent a letter on October 10, 2025 to New York Independent System Operator responding to its draft 2025–2034 Comprehensive Reliability Plan outlining several concerns and suggestions for changes.

document October 8, 2025

Seattle Times Ad Oct. 8, 2025: Extinction is Forever

This full-page ad ran in the Seattle Times on Oct. 8, 2025 to help counter misinformation about the state of the Columbia Basin’s salmon and steelhead runs being spread by industry special interests. The truth is that Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead are in serious trouble, with key stocks teetering on the brink of extinction. For more information: https://earthjustice.org/feature/columbia-basin-salmon-peril

A worker in a steel mill checking the flow of molten steel before the casting process in Southern California.  (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory October 7, 2025

California Passes Law To Help Modernize Manufacturing in a Win for Jobs and Clean Air

AB 1280 establishes funding mechanism for companies to replace dirty industrial equipment with zero-emissions technologies

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks onstage during the NYT Climate Forward 2025 at The Times Center on Sept. 24, 2025, in New York City.  (Yana Paskova / Getty Images for NYT)
From the Experts October 6, 2025

A New Law Can Cut Expenses that Shouldn’t Be in Californians’ Utility Bills

It’s up to Governor Newsom to sign AB 1167 into law and give Californians the protections other states are already enjoying.

The Maryland State House in Annapolis, MD. (Spartana Photography)
Article September 30, 2025

How Maryland is Taking Climate Action into Its Own Hands — While Cutting Energy Bills

The state’s new law shows that clean energy measures are gaining ground state-by-state, despite Trump and the fossil fuel industry’s nefarious efforts to prop up gas.

Kids take a break in a swimming pool in the shadow of the James H. Miller, Jr., coal-fired power plant in Adamsville, Ala. The Trump administration has exempted the plant from pollution limits set in the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Press Release September 29, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Coal Industry Giveaways

Americans will foot the bill for dirty fossil fuel power

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.

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.”

document September 11, 2025

Columbia Basin: Motion to Set Schedule

Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups today filed this motion to set a court schedule along with a motion requesting the U.S. District Court in Oregon end a multi-year pause on the groups’ long-running litigation to protect endangered Columbia Basin wild salmon and steelhead from federal dams that kill and harm them.