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Fifty-five community and advocacy groups are condemning additional funding will be part of the Republican budget reconciliation package.

David Henkin, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office, Earthjustice: “When he is saying that fisher folks from Hawaii or American Samoa need to travel for days to go fish. Well, you need to travel for days to get to these remote Pacific islands. They’re some of the most remote places on Earth … and they’re certainly not right…

Wild fish populations in the Columbia Basin are in serious trouble, with key stocks teetering on the brink of extinction.

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “If these proposals are finalized and withstand legal challenges, they will affect migratory birds and listed species by making it harder to protect the habitat that the species need to survive and recover.”

This order threatens indigenous cultural heritage and critical species’ habitat within and around the monument

Proposed rule would eliminate habitat protections for endangered species in the midst of extinction crisis

Three Alaska Native tribes challenge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of a fill permit for a controversial suction dredge gold mining operation proposed about 30 miles east of Nome in Northwest Alaska.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers initially rejected the mining permit but last year reversed its decision, approving harmful gold dredging that could destroy a prized estuary

Environmental laws have made our lives safer and healthier. Earthjustice will fight for them in court.

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

Earthjustice blasts new Trump administration efforts to ignore dozens of laws to fast-track harmful border wall construction

Interior failed to properly evaluate the harm from billion-barrel oil lease sale

A five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan that will be announced later in September may include 10+ additional offshore oil lease sales.

Pomeroy Dam, on the Illinois River in Oregon, was successfully demolished.

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

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.

Groups express wide opposition to proposed legislation

David Henkin, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office: “In the Antiquities Act, Congress gave the President the authority to create national monuments, not to dismantle them.”