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Press Release December 30, 2025

Trump Administration’s Sham Coal Plant Order Will Cost Ratepayers, Harm Colorado Communities

Emergency order will force Craig Unit 1 to remain available beyond December retirement date

document December 30, 2025

The Economic Cost of a DOE Mandate for the Craig Unit 1 Coal-Burning Generator to Continue Operating

This report analyzes the cost of a U.S. Department of Energy mandate that Unit 1 at the Craig coal-burning power plant in Colorado remain available and operate beyond its December 31, 2025, retirement date.

The Trump administration illegally ordered this coal-fired power plant in Washington State to stay open past retirement in December 2025. This is part of a broader policy to prop up coal that is driving up electricity costs. (Steven Baltakatei Sandoval / CC BY-SA 4.0)
Article December 24, 2025

Trump’s Holiday Gift to You: A Lump of Coal and a Higher Energy Bill

Electricity rates are set to skyrocket, fueled by the Trump administration’s war on cheaper clean energy and push for expensive fossil fuels.

The Ironbound neighborhood of Newark is one of the most polluted ZIP codes in New Jersey, where residents face higher rates of asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. (Aristide Economopoulos for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 22, 2025

Newark, NJ, leaders Introduce Historic Ordinance to Protect Community Health and Climate

New measure would stop fossil fuel expansion and address major sources of air pollution

document December 19, 2025

Appellate brief on DOE’s unlawful orders for the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant

Public advocacy groups, led by the Sierra Club and Earthjustice, filed an appellate brief with the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to ask the court to set aside the Department of Energy’s unlawful orders for the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan.

Polar bears near the Beaufort Sea on Alaska's North Slope. (Stephanie Powell / Getty Images)
Press Release December 19, 2025

Groups Issue Notice of Intent to Sue Federal Agencies Over Expected Harm to Polar Bears from Arctic Oil and Gas Development

Federal agencies failed to prevent harm to threatened polar bears when they opened the entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing

Endangered beluga whale, photographed during a hexacopter photogrammetry study of the Cook Inlet population. (Paul Wade / NOAA Fisheries)
Press Release December 19, 2025

Trump Administration Reaffirms Cook Inlet Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale Based on Environmental Study Completed Without Public Input

Federal regulators are allowing the challenged lease sale to move forward without any additional measures to protect endangered beluga whales

A humpback whale breaches out of the water in Monterey Bay, California. (Chase Dekker Wild-Life Images / Getty Images)
Article December 17, 2025

5 Species Threatened if the California Coastline is Opened for Oil Drilling

The Trump administration wants to expand drilling across U.S. coastlines, endangering Pacific wildlife and communities.

The TransAlta coal plant in Centralia, WA, is the largest source of mercury and global warming pollutants in the state.
(Earthjustice Photo)
Press Release December 17, 2025

Trump Administration Illegally Forces Washington’s Last Coal Plant to Keep Burning Coal Under False Energy Emergency

After nearly 15 years of planning, the plant had been scheduled to shut down Dec. 31

Plastic pellet (nurdle) pollution near Dow-UCC Braskem plastic production facility in Seadrift, Texas. (San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper)
Press Release December 17, 2025

Texas Waterkeeper Issues Notice of Intent to Sue for Illegal Water Pollution at Texas Plastics Plant

Notice of intent to sue details Clean Water Act violations at Seadrift, Texas, facility, including unpermitted plastic nurdle discharges

document December 17, 2025

60-day Notice of Intent to Sue for Violations of the Clean Water Act at the Seadrift Operations Facility

This is a 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue (NOI) for Clean Water Act violations at a plastics manufacturing facility in Seadrift, Texas, operated by Dow Hydrocarbons and Resources LLC, Union Carbide Corporation and Braskem America, Inc. on the behalf of our clients San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper with co-counsel at Environmental Integrity Project (EIP).

Press Release December 16, 2025

New York State Energy Plan Could Lead to Higher Bills and More Dirty Energy

New York leaders continue investing in expensive, dirty fossil fuels despite fact that renewables perform well and lower costs

August 12th, 2025: The White River as seen on the Bad River Reservation on August 12th, 2025. (Steven Garcia for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 16, 2025

Bad River Band Challenges Federal Approval for Line 5 Reroute

Wisconsin Tribe asks D.C. federal court to overturn the U.S. Army Corps’ oil pipeline permit

document December 16, 2025

Bad River Band Challenge to USACE Permit for Line 5 Reroute

Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa against the US Army Corps of Engineers for unlawfully granting Canadian company Enbridge a permit for the construction of a new 41-mile section of its Line 5 oil pipeline.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Brooks Range mountains, Alaska. (Patrick J. Endres / Getty Images)
Article December 16, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Prepping to Sell off Alaska’s Arctic to Oil and Gas Companies

In a series of recent moves, the administration is opening most of the vast and precious Arctic ecosystem to drilling.

A large liquified natural gas transport ship sits docked in the Calcasieu River near Cameron, Louisiana. (Jon Shapley / Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
Press Release December 15, 2025

Texan Nonprofits Sue FERC for Approving LNG Terminal and Pipeline

Groups ask FERC to better evaluate the air pollution impacts of the TX project

document December 15, 2025

Rio Grande LNG FERC Petition

A coalition of Texan nonprofits and the City of Port Isabel sued the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approving the Rio Grande LNG terminal and Rio Bravo pipeline.

Lazzlo Jenkins, a member of Agroecology Commons, cuts flowers at the organization's demonstration farm in El Sobrante, California. An Earthjustice lawsuit helped restore grant funding for the organization. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Article: Victory December 12, 2025

5 of Our Top Legal Wins From 2025

The onslaught of environmental attacks from polluting industries and their allies in the Trump administration is not slowing down – but neither is the pace of our litigation.