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Press Release June 26, 2025

Motion for Preliminary Injunction Filed Urging Court to Set Aside USDA’s Unlawful Termination of Grants Supporting Farmers and Communities

The preliminary injunction urges the court to order restoration of vital grants and funding that support tree planting, growing food in underserved communities, training new farmers, and helping farmers adopt climate-friendly practices

document June 26, 2025

USDA Grant Termination Case: Motion for Preliminary Injunction

The Motion for Preliminary Injunction, filed by Earthjustice, Farmers Justice Center, and FarmSTAND, calls upon the court to order the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to restore vital grants, enjoin USDA’s unlawful policy and practice of terminating grants in this manner, and return to the grant conditions that existed before USDA engaged in these unlawful actions.

Press Release June 25, 2025

EPA Sued for Allowing Nerve-Agent Pesticides on Our Fruit and Vegetables

Lawsuit pushes for ban on organophosphates after years of government delay and known harms to children

document June 25, 2025

Court Filing: Trump’s EPA Sued for Allowing Nerve-Agent Pesticides on Our Fruit and Vegetables

Farmworker and public health groups represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to respond to a petition to ban organophosphates pesticides, a class of chemicals used on fruits, vegetables, and field crops. In utero exposures to organophosphates are linked to autism, attention deficit disorders and impaired cognition in school-age children. They also cause countless instances of farmworker and community poisonings every year.

Press Release: Victory June 24, 2025

Federal Appeals Court Finds EPA’s Analysis of the Climate Change Impact of Renewable Fuels Arbitrary and Capricious

EPA disregarded the results of its own climate review and made inconsistent statements

document June 24, 2025

Amended Complaint: USDA Grant Termination Case

This action seeks to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) policy, pattern, and practice of unlawfully terminating hundreds of grants issued to nonprofit organizations, farmers, ranchers, universities, cities, and states.

document June 20, 2025

U.S. Appeals Court Decision: Renewable Fuels Standards Program

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its ruling in the challenge to the renewable fuel volume obligations set by the Environmental Protection Agency for the years 2023-2025. The court found that arguments made by the National Wildlife Federation had merit.

Press Release June 5, 2025

USDA Grantees Sue Trump Administration to Stop Illegal Grant Terminations

Wide range of nonprofits take action against U.S. Department of Agriculture for illegal withholding of important funding, seek order to reverse grant terminations

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.

A person holds wood pellets at a biomass facility at Drax Power Station near Selby, England. (Anna Gowthorpe / Getty Images)
From the Experts May 29, 2025

The Long Shadow of Drax, a Power Company Masquerading as Green

The U.K. wood pellet manufacturer pollutes low-income U.S. communities

Jude Addo-Chidie, a Ph.D. student in agronomy at Purdue University, takes a soil sample from a corn field, Wednesday, 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)
Update May 14, 2025

We Just Won Our First Victory Against This Trump Administration

The Trump administration agreed to restore climate-related information to government websites, many of which farmers rely on to adapt to increasingly extreme weather.

Press Release: Victory May 13, 2025

USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit

The Trump administration will restore access to vital resources for climate-smart agriculture, forest conservation, climate change adaptation, and rural clean energy projects

document May 12, 2025

Joint Letter: USDA

The parties write respectfully to inform the Court that United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will restore the climate-change-related web content that was removed post-inauguration, including all USDA webpages and interactive tools enumerated in Plaintiffs’ Complaint.

In the News: The New York Times May 12, 2025

Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back.

Jeffrey Stein, Attorney, Sustainable Food & Farming Program: “We’re glad that U.S.D.A. recognized that its blatantly unlawful purge of climate-change-related information is harming farmers and communities across the country.”

In the News: Houston Chronicle May 7, 2025

USDA cuts create unknown future for sustainable farming projects at Texas A&M AgriLife, Prairie View

Peter Lehner, Managing Attorney, Sustainable Food & Farming Program: “The sad recognition is that if we don’t address agriculture, even if we are successful in decarbonizing the rest of the economy, we will almost certainly exceed any quasi-safe target level.”

Agricultural fields surround an elementary school in Salinas, California. (Martin Do Nascimento / Earthjustice)
case April 21, 2025

Protecting Schoolchildren in Monterey County from Toxic Pesticide Exposure

Regulators are failing to protect children from repeat exposure to the most dangerous pesticides

Earthjustice clients impacted by the Trump administration's freezing of federal funds appropriated from the Inflation Reduction Act. Brien Darby (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice). Elisa Lane (Photo courtesy of Ann-Marie VanTassell). Mark Magaña (Photo courtesy of GreenLatinos). Laura Beth Resnick (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice). Brian Sauder (Eric Davis for Earthjustice)
feature April 9, 2025

Earthjustice’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze

The government reneged on its promise to provide federal grant money to fund climate projects. We’re suing on behalf of grant recipients who have been harmed.

document April 7, 2025

Preliminary Injunction: USDA Climate Webpages Purge

Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court grant a preliminary injunction ordering restoration of all webpages that were removed pursuant to USDA’s January 30, 2025, directive and enjoining USDA from removing or substantially modifying additional webpages pursuant to that directive.