Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.
Marvin C. Brown IV, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “EPA is losing the E and the P from its name. It seems like the agency is really giving up on protecting the environment and human health. People will die from the unnecessary amounts of pollution.”
Raúl García, Vice President of Policy & Legislation: “People are still thinking (climate change) is happening 10 years from now. This is happening today, and I think few people know this as well as Floridians.”
Six Michigan Tribes withdrew from Line 5 federal discussions after learning that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will likely fast-track its approval for Enbridge’s massive oil tunnel project, in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order declaring an “energy emergency.”
Court dismissed legal challenges to local law to phase out dirty fossil fuels in buildings, clean the air, and help reach NYC’s goals to cut climate pollution
Sam Sankar, Senior VP of Programs, Earthjustice: “[EPA Administrator Zeldin] can ignore the law and the science when he talks to Donald Trump. But he can’t do that in court when we sue him.”
Jill Tauber, VP of Litigation for Climate and Energy, Earthjustice: “The president cannot come in and say, ‘We’re not doing that, we’re not following the law that Congress legislated.’ That’s a violation of separation of powers.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed the public’s right to access millions of acres of public land across the West via corner crossing.
Farmers have been stripped of vital digital resources due to the Trump Administration’s climate webpage purge; Motion seeks to restore access and prevent additional webpage removals
La administración está recortando iniciativas destinadas a ayudar a comunidades racializadas y de bajos ingresos que enfrentan altas cargas de contaminación.
Behind every bite of salad in the break room, every fruit in a lunch box, every meal at dinner, lies the hand of a farmworker—drenched in pesticides, soaked in sweat, and now, likely facing the risk of deportation.
Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This is going to mean increased impacts on local communities that we’ve seen across the country.”
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Working Group request that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York grant a preliminary injunction ordering restoration of all webpages that were removed pursuant to United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) January 30, 2025, directive and enjoining USDA from removing or substantially modifying additional webpages pursuant to that directive.
Katherine O’Brien, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “Despite calculating very high cancer risks for people in their homes and also fence-line community residents, EPA has completely written off those risks, and set the stage for no regulation to address those risks. That’s deeply disappointing and very hard to comprehend.”
