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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.
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 (NOI) 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

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.

A snowy owl in the Western Arctic. Earthjustice has fought for decades on multiple fronts to protect this irreplaceable region. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Update December 11, 2025

We’re Suing to Stop Arctic Oil Exploration

An exploratory project in the Western Arctic would harm wildlife, sensitive ecosystems, and Alaska Native communities.

Caribou in the Western Arctic around the Teshekpuk Lake area. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 11, 2025

Lawsuit Challenges Federal Approval of Harmful Oil Exploration in Alaska’s Western Arctic

Interior approved ConocoPhillips’ plan to explore for more oil near its Willow project without addressing the harm it will cause to wildlife and sensitive ecosystems

document December 11, 2025

Western Arctic Exploration Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief

Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-led grassroots organization seek to overturn the Trump administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ winter seismic and exploration drilling program in the Western Arctic.

Protestors stand on shore after the Pipe Out Paddle Up Flotilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City, Michigan, in 2022. Protestors paddled out in the water in canoes and kayaks holding signs to protest the pipeline. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
Article December 10, 2025

An Oil Pipeline is Threatening the Great Lakes

The Line 5 pipeline has already leaked over 1 million gallons of oil to date and threatens the Great Lakes. Time is running out to stop one company’s dangerous plans to keep the oil flowing.

In the News: Daily Montanan December 9, 2025

NorthWestern request to tap customer credit ‘unprecedented,’

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “The result is the same, which is that customers are paying for costs that may or may not be prudent for an asset that may or may not be, in its entirety, used and useful.”

Illustrations by Ceylan Sahin Eker
Article December 5, 2025

The Lawyers Giving Us Hope

Six Earthjustice attorneys share what motivates them to keep fighting for the planet and its people.

Press Release December 4, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Senate Vote Reopening Arctic Refuge to Oil Drilling

Senators use Congressional Review Act to reinstate Trump-era plan maximizing oil drilling

Press Release December 4, 2025

Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Trump EPA Final Rule That Delays Methane Pollution Protections from Oil and Gas Industry

Unlawful delay ignores health risks, energy waste, widespread opposition