Earthjustice will continue to fight with urgency to ensure that the USDA restores funding and clean power to the farmers and rural communities the Department is supposed to serve.
The United States Department of Agriculture Anti-Renewables Rule unlawfully and significantly reduces access to these investments, depriving rural businesses of one of the few federal programs specifically designed to help…
Lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) challenging USDA's efforts to write solar energy out of the Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP).
Public Citizen Litigation Group, FarmSTAND, and Earthjustice filed a request on behalf of five nonprofit organizations for preliminary relief in their new case in the U.S. District Court for the…
Plaintiffs and other grantees cannot effectively do that work while subject to the unlawful terms and conditions, we are asking the Court to put these rules on hold while the…
Nothing about the case for year-round E15 adds up. It raises costs at the pump and in the grocery aisle, it requires millions of additional acres of land that make…
Plaintiff groups seek stay and preliminary ruling to stop potential grantees from facing vague anti-DEI terms and serious threats for failure to comply
Plaintiff groups seek stay and preliminary ruling to stop potential United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) grantees from facing vague terms and serious threats for failure to comply. The new…
Federal financial assistance should not be subject to political maneuvering and gamesmanship, yet the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s proposed rule will do just that.
Organizations submitted comments urging the Office of Management and Budget to withdraw the proposed rule governing federal awards, grants, and cooperative agreements. In the alternative, they asked OMB to clarify…
A federal district court has issued an order restoring the grants of 24 organizations and local governments who had grant agreements under the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Increasing…
