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Windy, dusty day in Mojave National Preserve, California. (Christian Collins / CC BY-SA 2.0)
Press Release April 15, 2026

Lawsuit Challenges Department of Interior’s Rubberstamping of Mining in California’s Mojave National Preserve

The National Parks Conservation Association calls for halt to operations damaging park landscape at the formerly decommissioned Colosseum Mine

document April 15, 2026

Colosseum Mine Complaint

Plaintiff National Parks Conservation Association challenges Defendants’ reversal of position permitting renewed industrial mining operations at the decommissioned Colosseum Mine in Mojave National Preserve without the environmental review and approvals required by federal law.

Female panther at the Picayune Strand State Forest in Collier County.
(Tim Donovan / Florida Fish & Wildlife)
Update April 15, 2026

Court Upholds Protections for Florida’s Wetlands

The ruling ensures protections for vulnerable species like the critically endangered Florida panther.

Small mouth grunts swim past elkhorn coral. (Ethan Daniels / Shutterstock)
From the Experts April 13, 2026

America’s Fisheries Law Turns 50: Let’s Skip the Mid-Life Crisis

Fish depend on healthy habitats, abundant food sources, and a well-functioning food web to thrive.

Lake Koocanusa by Libby Dam in northwest Montana. (Lisa Kyle Young / Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory April 9, 2026

Court Upholds Selenium Water Quality Standard for Lake Koocanusa

Montana and Idaho waters endure harmful pollution from upstream Canadian coal mines

document April 9, 2026

Selenium MSJ Order

A Montana District Court upheld Montana’s selenium water quality standard for Lake Koocanusa (Koocanusa Reservoir), affirming the science-based limits necessary to protect fish and other aquatic life.

A heron takes flight over wetlands in the Everglades in Florida. (Brian Lasenby / Shutterstock)
Update April 7, 2026

We’re Fighting to Protect the Everglades from Florida’s Illegal Detention Center

Florida and the Trump administration have been ramming through the construction of an immigration detention facility within the Florida Everglades, the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere.

A wolf at Yellowstone National Park. (Jacob W. Frank / National Park Service)
Update April 2, 2026

We Won Back Endangered Species Act Protections the First Trump Admin Attacked

The ruling derails the current administration’s efforts to further undermine the landmark conservation law.

document April 2, 2026

Groups Sue Over Exemption of All Gulf Oil-and-Gas Activities from ESA

The unprecedented blanket-exemption would leave numerous Gulf species and ecosystems unprotected and vulnerable to extinction, including the critically endangered Rice’s whale, sea turtles, fish, rays, corals, and birds.

Dolphins swim in the Gulf of Mexico. (Talia Cohen / Unsplash)
Article April 2, 2026

We’re Suing the Trump Administration for Greenlighting Extinction in the Gulf of Mexico

Whales, sea turtles, fish, rays, manatees, corals, and birds are now without protection.

document April 1, 2026

Whatcom County Hearing Examiner Decision on AltaGas Expansions

The Whatcom County Hearing Examiner sided with six local environmental groups in ruling that Whatcom County mishandled its review of a series of expansions of a liquefied petroleum gas facility near Bellingham. The County must now conduct an independent capacity analysis of the terminal expansion and redo its environmental analysis.

The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. (Eric Ian for Earthjustice)
Press Release March 31, 2026

Groups Challenge Trump Admin’s Rushed Approval of Cabinet Mountains Mining Project

Organizations fear harm to waters, wilderness area, and ESA-protected species

document March 31, 2026

Quotes from Plaintiffs in Montanore Litigation

A coalition of local and national organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s fast-tracked approval of the Libby Exploration Project in northwestern Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.

document March 31, 2026

Libby Exploration Project Complaint

A coalition of local and national organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s fast-tracked approval of the Libby Exploration Project in northwestern Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.

A Rice’s whale — one of the world’s rarest whales — observed in the western Gulf of Mexico in 2024. The species is the only large whale species that lives year-round in North American waters. (Paul Nagelkirk / NOAA Fisheries - NMFS ESA/MMPA Permit #21938)
Press Release March 31, 2026

‘Extinction Committee’ Allows Oil Drillers to Ignore Species Protections in Gulf of Mexico

Panel of appointees aligns with “national security” rationale from Secretary of Defense

Press Release March 30, 2026

Corte Federal Anula Ataques del Presidente Trump Contra la Ley de Especies en Peligro de Extinción

El fallo frustra futuros intentos de debilitar la ley y la restablece a su estatus previo a la primera administración Trump