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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.

Dolphins swim in the Gulf of Mexico. (Talia Cohen / Unsplash)
Article March 31, 2026

Extinction Won’t Make Anyone Safer

The administration just moved to allow oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico to ignore endangered species protections.

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

document March 30, 2026

Ruling: Federal Court Strikes Down Attacks Against Endangered Species Act

A federal court struck down President Trump’s attacks against the Endangered Species Act, restoring key values of the bedrock environmental law to the status it held for decades before attacks by the first Trump administration.

The critically endangered Florida panther is just one of the species
that depends on the Everglades. (David Shindle for the Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission)
Press Release: Victory March 27, 2026

Court Victory for Florida Wetlands Protection

Federal government, not state, will remain in charge of wetlands permitting under the Clean Water Act

document March 27, 2026

Opinion: Florida Wetlands Sec. 404

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that permits to build in wetlands should stay in the hands of federal regulators rather than the state of Florida.

A male greater sage-grouse performs a spring courtship ritual in Carbon County, Wyoming. (Noppadol Paothong)
Press Release March 26, 2026

Lawsuit Filed Over Trump Administration Abandonment of Sage-Grouse Protections

Suit claims Bureau of Land Management walked away from 2015 commitments to sage-grouse to benefit oil and gas industry

document March 26, 2026

Sage Grouse Complaint

Montana Wildlife Federation, Defenders of Wildlife, and The Wilderness Society sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its abandonment of critical protections for the declining greater sage-grouse.

The Flathead National Forest in Montana. (Your Forests Your Future / U.S. Forest Service)
Press Release March 24, 2026

Groups Intend to Sue Trump Administration Over Flathead National Forest Timber Project

60-day notice states recently-approved West Reservoir Project could harm grizzly bears and bull trout

document March 24, 2026

Flathead 60 Day Notice

Swan View Coalition and Friends of the Wild Swan notified the Trump administration of their intent to sue over the recently-approved West Reservoir timber project in Flathead National Forest, which would allow for new roadbuilding that could harm federally-protected grizzly bears and bull trout.

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 16, 2026

Trump Administration Trying to Strip Protections From Gulf Marine Life

Move would threaten rare whales, fish, rays, sea turtles, and corals

Tongass National Forest, Kuiu Island, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. The Roadless Rule protects about half of the Tongass, the crown jewel of the National Forest system and home to nearly one-third of all old-growth temperate rainforest remaining in the entire world. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
From the Experts March 13, 2026

Now Is the Time to Speak for the Tongass

A revision of the forest plan for the Tongass National Forest is now underway.

Sworls of Montipora aequituberculata, a core coral, attract fish at Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, about 1,300 miles southwest of Honolulu. (Jim E. Maragos / USFWS)
Article March 9, 2026

3 Wins for the Environment Against the Trump Administration

The Trump administration’s onslaught on the environment is intense, but Earthjustice is using the power of the law to fight back.

A view of wildflowers and the Mule Mountains located in Chuckwalla National Monument. (Bob Wick / BLM)
Press Release March 5, 2026

Court Allows Organizations to Intervene In Lawsuit to Defend Chuckwalla National Monument

Conservation, education, veteran, and recreation groups fight to protect critical Southern California public lands in Chuckwalla National Monument