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Press Release June 13, 2025

Defying Logic, New Jersey Green Lights Yet Another Gas Power Plant in Newark

Today’s final vote disregards ongoing, vocal community opposition & significant risks posed

Clockwise from top left: Laura Beth Resnick of Butterbee Farm. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice) Controlled burn during BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / U.S. Coast Guard) Subway train on the 7 line in Queens, New York City. (Marco Bottigelli / Getty Images) An oil-coated feather on a Florida beach in 2010, following the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. (Tech. Sgt. Emily F. Alley / U.S. Air Force)
feature June 12, 2025

Our Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

Press Release June 11, 2025

ElectrifyNY Statement: Senate Passes the Clean Deliveries Act

Assembly must pass clean air and public health bill now

document June 9, 2025

Solicitud de aplicación de la legislación sobre materiales peligrosos en los yacimientos de petróleo y gas de EE. UU.

Letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) on behalf of Truckers Movement for Justice, Ohio Vallie Allies, and other organizations to request that DOT enforce federal hazardous materials law for transportation of hazardous materials, particularly the transportation of oil and gas waste, and the FMSCA conduct a formal safety audit for all carriers operating in oilfields across the United States.

document June 5, 2025

Lawsuit Filing v. USDA re: Grant Termination

This action seeks to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s policy, pattern, and practice of unlawfully terminating hundreds of grants issued to nonprofit organizations, farmers, ranchers, universities, cities, and states. Defendants’ policy, pattern, and practice has undercut efforts to strengthen rural and agricultural communities, address food security in low-income communities, support beginning farmers, empower urban communities to address climate and heat risks, and support the production and marketing of climate-smart commodities.

From left: Walter Jim, Chair of the Orutsararmiut Native Council (ONC), Ray Watson, an ONC Council Member, and William Igkurak, Council President of the Native Village of Kwigillingok, presented at the 2025 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon, on the threat of the Donlin Gold mine to their Kuskokwim River communities.  (Rebecca Bowe / Earthjustice)
feature June 4, 2025

Mining Makes No Sense to the Southwest Alaska Tribes Challenging the Donlin Gold Mine

Alaska Native tribal leaders explain how a massive gold mine proposed in their region poses grave risks to villages, food security and continued tribal traditions

The sun rises over a hazy New York City skyline as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. (Seth Wenig / AP)
Press Release June 3, 2025

Time is Running Out for New York to Pass Health and Climate Legislation as Wildfires Approach

Canada wildfires to cover Northeast skies as New York legislators return to Albany with days left in session, clean air and climate legislation remain on the table

Coral at Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge.
(James Maragos / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Press Release June 3, 2025

Third ‘Upwell: A Wave of Ocean Justice’ Symposium Spotlights Continued Fight for Ocean Justice

Advocates representative of historically-excluded and marginalized communities gathered to center ocean justice ahead of World Ocean Day

Espirales de Montipora aequituberculata, un coral central, atraen a los peces en el Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre de la Isla Jarvis, en el Monumento Nacional Marino del Patrimonio de las Islas del Pacífico. (Jim E. Maragos / USFWS)
Press Release June 3, 2025

Tercer Simposio de ‘Upwell: A Wave of Ocean Justice’ Destaca la Lucha por la Justicia Oceánica

Defensores representantes de comunidades históricamente excluidas y marginadas se reunieron para promover la justicia oceánica, como antesala del Día Mundial de los Océanos.

Reception at Earthjustice's Washington, D.C., Office.
page June 3, 2025

Sustainability at Earthjustice

Sustainability is an evolving journey that touches every part of our work.

document June 2, 2025

Falling Through the Cracks: Lead Poisoning is Completely Preventable

Two-page summary fact sheet: first independent and in-depth report examines enforcement gaps in Syracuse’s preventative lead ordinance.

Press Release June 2, 2025

Falling through the Cracks: Lead Poisoning Prevention Must be a Priority for Syracuse

First independent and in-depth report examines enforcement gaps in Syracuse’s preventative lead ordinance

document June 2, 2025

Falling Through the Cracks: How Enforcement Gaps Leave Syracuse Kids Still Exposed to Lead Paint Hazards Despite Implementation of the City Lead Ordinance

First independent and in-depth report examines enforcement gaps in Syracuse’s preventative lead ordinance.

Press Release June 2, 2025

Solicitan Intervención Urgente de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Para Evitar Desalojo Forzoso de Comunidad Mapuche

Organizaciones buscan pronunciamiento del órgano de derechos humanos a favor de la Comunidad Lof El Sosneado, la cual se encuentra en conflicto con una empresa minera en la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina

Press Release May 30, 2025

Urgent Intervention by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Needed to Stop Eviction of Mapuche Community

Organizations ask the commission to defend the Lof El Sosneado community from forced removal in conflict with mining company on ancestral lands in Mendoza, Argentina

Fachada de la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. (Gabriella Demczuk / Getty Images)
Press Release May 30, 2025

Fallo de la Corte Suprema Limita Tareas Vitales de La Ley Nacional de Política Ambiental

El supremo anula método de 50 años de antigüedad para la aprobación gubernamental de proyectos potencialmente dañinos

Dionna Brown, the National Director of Youth Environmental Justice Policy at Young, Gifted, and Green in downtown Flint, Michigan. (Brittany Greeson for Earthjustice)
Article May 30, 2025

We Just Got a Win to Secure Safe, Lead-Free Drinking Water

A Republican-run Congress attempted to repeal lead exposure protections, endangering millions of lives in the U.S. We fought back — and won.

Uinta Basin in northeast Utah.
(Photo courtesy of Jared Hargrave)
Update May 29, 2025

The Supreme Court Just Weakened a Bedrock Environmental Law

We will continue standing up for the principle that the government must consider predictable environmental harms before it acts.