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New York Governor Hochul and Legislature Finalize the SFY2025-26 Budget; Includes New Climate Funding and a Boost to the Environmental Protection Fund

Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Peter Lehner, Managing Attorney, Sustainable Food & Farming Program: “The sad recognition is that if we don’t address agriculture, even if we are successful in decarbonizing the rest of the economy, we will almost certainly exceed any quasi-safe target level.”

Over the last decade, the boom in online shopping and e-commerce has made massive warehouses spring up in New York faster than you can make an online purchase.

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing cuts to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act funding in reconciliation bill.

Quotes from groups opposing forestry provisions in budget reconciliation bill.

Groups oppose the coal leasing provision in the HNRC budget reconciliation bill.

The House Natural Resources Committee’s budget reconciliation bill language includes an all-out attack on Alaska’s public lands, including maximum drilling, mining and logging

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources by groups opposing mandated leasing for offshore oil and gas drilling in budget reconciliation.

Wind provides more than 10% of U.S. power today, making it the largest source of renewable energy

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing forestry provisions.

Letter to House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing coal leasing provisions.

Communities exposed to warehouse-associated diesel truck pollution face higher levels of air-pollution-linked health problems like asthma and cardiovascular disease

The environmental movement has made huge gains since the 1970s, and we won’t let the lawless actions of the current administration reverse our hard-won progress.

Dror Ladin, Attorney, Northeast Office: “In administrative law, you’re not supposed to just reopen questions based on things that could have been raised at the time.”

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.

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.”

Candice Youngblood, Attorney, California Office, Earthjustice: “Our locally elected officials, they serve us, so you can go to their offices and talk to them about the issues that you’re concerned about and ensure that the decisions that they are making are serving our interests and the world that we’re trying to create.”