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Whitney Gravelle, the President of the Bay Mills Indian Community,  in St. Ignace, Michigan, at the 2025 "Pipe Out Paddle Up Family Picnic" to shut down the Line 5 pipeline. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory July 31, 2026

Tribes Celebrate as Michigan Supreme Court Nixes Line 5 Permit

Enbridge must re-do its application to build an oil tunnel below the Straits of Mackinac
document July 30, 2026

FBIC Opposition to Consent Decree

Fort Belknap Indian Community (FBIC) is requesting that the Court decline to enter the proposed consent decree in its current form because it deprives the Tribes of their legal claims…
A sign that used to welcome visitors at the Big Water gateway in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was removed. (Ray Bloxham / SUWA)
Press Release July 30, 2026

Trump Administration Works to Erase Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments

Removal of signage for both national monuments conducted in recent days
In the News: WLRN Public Media July 29, 2026

Advocates win release of records showing toxic hazards at closed Homestead migrant children shelter

Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office: “The only way to ensure our rights have meaning is to enforce them when they are ignored. The government is not invincible. It has to answer to the courts. And it has to answer to the people.”
The United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Ramaz Bluashvili / Pexels)
Press Release July 27, 2026

Earthjustice Responds to Federal Attack on National Historic Preservation Act

New proposed regulations would gut protections for cultural sites and landscapes
In the News: Inside Climate News July 26, 2026

OSHA Proposed Heat Protections for Workers. Two Years Later, They’re Still Not Final.

Danielle McManamon, Attorney, Florida Office: “This is a worsening issue, and the longer we put it off, workers will remain at risk.”
Semi trucks line up to receive containers as a ship is unloaded at a Port of Seattle terminal in Seattle, Washington. (Matthew Brashears / Getty Images)
From the Experts July 22, 2026

Click, Click, Pollute. Washington Started the E-Commerce Boom – Now It Can Fix its Pollution

Adopting e-commerce pollution controls in Washington is a commonsense solution.
A fireball rises above the 36th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Tarague range seconds after the detonation of an M117 bomb, as a part of the flight's training, on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. (A1C Joshua P. Strang / USAF)
Press Release July 20, 2026

Earthjustice and Prutehi Guåhan File Supreme Court Brief Defending Guam Community’s Right to Meaningful Environmental Review

Earthjustice filed its merits brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court in Department of the Air Force v. Prutehi Guåhan, a case about whether the U.S. military can destroy its…
In the News: Michigan Advance July 18, 2026

Judge denies DTE bid to pause Clean Air Act order over Zug Island facility

Mary Rock, Special Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “It’s very encouraging to see the Court stick to the relief that community members fought for and that they urgently need to breathe clean air.”
Starfish in bamboo coral, one of the rich deep-sea marine life in Rose Atoll. (NOAA Okeanos Explorer)
Press Release July 16, 2026

Trump Administration Announces American Samoa Deep-Sea Mining Lease Sale

Environmental and community groups condemn reckless proposal that threatens ocean life and cultural practices
document July 15, 2026

Fact Sheet: American Samoa Deep Sea Mining and Monuments (Samoan)

The Trump administration is trying to open marine waters around the Pacific to highly destructive industrial activities. Earthjustice is supporting local groups in American Samoa and beyond to respond. (Text…
document July 15, 2026

Fact Sheet: American Samoa Deep Sea Mining and Monuments (English)

The Trump administration is trying to open marine waters around the Pacific to highly destructive industrial activities. Earthjustice is supporting local groups in American Samoa and beyond to respond.
Jude Addo-Chidie, a Ph.D. student in agronomy at Purdue University, takes a soil sample from a corn field, July 12, 2023, at the Southeast-Purdue Agricultural Center in Butlerville, Ind. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been removing important climate-related data from its websites that farmers rely on to adapt to extreme weather. (Joshua A. Bickel / AP)
Press Release July 14, 2026

Earthjustice Vigorously Opposes Proposal to Politicize Federal Funding

OMB’s proposal would centralize control over federal grant decisions under political appointees
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 July 14, 2026

The Line 5 Oil Pipeline is Threatening the Great Lakes

The 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…
More than 100,000 Native American archaeological and cultural sites, some dating to 12,000 B.C., are protected in Bears Ears National Monument. (Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
feature July 13, 2026

What You Should Know About the Antiquities Act and National Monuments

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.
document July 13, 2026

Civil Rights Comments Directed to the Office of Management and Budget on its Funding Proposal

Groups filed comments directed at OMB strongly opposing a Trump administration proposal that would give the president’s political appointees veto power over federal financial assistance programs.
document July 13, 2026

Comments directed to Department of Transportation on Office of Management and Budget funding proposal

Groups filed comments directed at the Department of Transportation strongly opposing a Trump administration proposal that would give the president’s political appointees veto power over federal financial assistance programs.
document July 13, 2026

Comments directed to EPA, NOAA, DOE on OMB funding proposal

Environmental groups filed comments to EPA, NOAA, and DOE strongly opposing a Trump administration proposal that would give the president’s political appointees veto power over federal financial assistance programs.