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Press Release June 12, 2025

Interior Advances Trump Executive Order on Deep Seabed Mining

Deep sea leasing near American Samoa to mine critical minerals would threaten rare and undiscovered ocean species

A sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) at Little Redfish Lake Creek trap, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho. (Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release June 12, 2025

Plaintiffs Represented by Earthjustice Condemn Trump Administration’s Unilateral Withdrawal from Historic Columbia Basin Agreement

The administration’s decision reneges on promised investments in fisheries and clean energy, and ignores federal, state, tribal science on the need for urgent action to prevent extinction and rebuild healthy and abundant salmon

The Kuskokwim River provides a critical source of wild food and serves as a bedrock of identity and cultural values for Alaska Native Tribal citizens and community members living downstream from the Donlin mine site.
Press Release: Victory June 11, 2025

Court Orders Agencies to Revise Environmental Study Underlying Key Federal Permits for the Donlin Gold Mine

The U.S. District Court in Alaska orders the mine’s permitting agencies to take a more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by revising the project’s environmental study

A fossil fuel drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. (Marc Morrison / Cavan Images / Getty Images)
From the Experts June 11, 2025

5 Special Places That Trump’s Megabill Would Sell Out — to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

document June 10, 2025

Donlin Mine: Order on Remedy

The U.S. District Court in Alaska issued a court order requiring Donlin Mine’s federal permitting agencies to take more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by supplementing the project’s environmental study,

Fossil fuel drilling sites in Alaska's Western Arctic. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 2, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on the Trump Administration’s Proposed Repeal of Western Arctic Protections

Repeal of Regulations designed to minimize the impacts of fossil-fuel drilling on public lands in Alaska would harm wildlife, subsistence, and the climate

Press Release May 30, 2025

Urgent Intervention by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Needed to Stop Eviction of Mapuche Community

Organizations ask the commission to defend the Lof El Sosneado community from forced removal in conflict with mining company on ancestral lands in Mendoza, Argentina

Logging in the Tongass National Forest. (Colin Arisman / Wild Confluence Media)
Press Release May 28, 2025

Tribes, Fishing and Forest Advocates Intervene to Defend the Tongass Against Increased Old-Growth Logging

Timber interests try to force more old-growth logging sales in the Tongass National Forest

A shrimp swims through a giant bamboo coral on the "Kahalewai" seamount in the Jarvis Island Unit of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. (NOAA)
video May 28, 2025

Earthjustice Sues to Protect Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument

David Henkin, attorney in Earthjustice’s Mid-Pacific Office, explains our lawsuit to protect the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument.

document May 28, 2025

Motion to Intervene to Defend the Tongass Against Alaska Forest Association Legal Challenge

A coalition of conservation groups, Alaska tribes, a commercial fishing advocacy group and an ecotourism operator request to intervene in a timber industry legal challenge that seeks to revive industrial old-growth logging in the Tongass National Forest.

Esta imagen ilustra un arrecife e isla frente a la costa de Veracruz, México. (Cesar Morales / Getty Images)
From the Experts May 22, 2025

Defendiendo al Golfo de México: La Batalla Legal Mexicana Para Proteger el Sistema Arrecifal Coralino Más Grande del Golfo

Ampliar el puerto de Veracruz afectaría un importante sistema arrecifal.

Press Release May 22, 2025

Ampliación del Puerto de Veracruz Representa Grave Riesgo Para Ecosistemas Marinos, Señalan Grupos

Organizaciones nacionales e internacionales denuncian que la nueva autorización va en contra de las medidas ordenadas por la Corte Suprema de Justicia de México en 2022 y solicitan una evaluación de impacto ambiental integral.

A reef and island off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico.
 (Cesar Morales / Getty Images)
From the Experts May 22, 2025

Defending the Gulf of Mexico: The Mexican Legal Battle to Protect the Gulf’s Largest Coral Ecosystem

Making the Port of Veracruz larger would damage a major reef system.

Butterfly fish feed in the waters of Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. (Jim Maragos / USFWS)
Press Release May 22, 2025

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Order Opening Pacific Monument to Commercial Fishing

April’s proclamation threatens indigenous heritage, endangered species, and pristine marine ecosystems in Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument

document May 22, 2025

Pacific Monument Complaint: District of Hawaii

This case challenges President Donald J. Trump’s unlawful Proclamation 10918 of April 17, 2025, which purports to strip core protections from the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument and to open the Monument to commercial fishing.

Grey reef sharks and colorful schools of anthias in the waters of Jarvis Island at the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. (Kelvin Gorospe / NOAA)
feature May 22, 2025

The Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument Is Under Attack

We’re suing the Trump administration for trying to illegally open one of the world’s most pristine tropical marine environments to commercial fishing

document May 21, 2025

Gulf BiOp Reconciliation Letter

Letter to Members of Congress opposing the Biological Opinion on the Federally Regulated Oil and Gas Program Activities in the Gulf of Mexico Provision in the Reconciliation Bill.

El rorcual de Rice, una de las ballenas más raras del mundo, observada en el oeste del Golfo de México en 2024. Esta especie es la única de gran tamaño que vive en aguas de Norteamérica alrededor del año. (Paul Nagelkirk / NOAA Fisheries - Permiso NMFS ESA / MMPA n.° 21938)
Press Release May 21, 2025

Grupos Entablan Demanda para Proteger al Rorcual de Rice y Otras Especies Marinas

Una nueva opinión biológica federal no aborda los daños causados por la perforación de combustibles fósiles en el Golfo de México.