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document May 6, 2025

Quote Sheet for Forestry Provision in Reconciliation Bill

Quotes from groups opposing forestry provisions in budget reconciliation bill.

document May 5, 2025

Quote sheet for onshore reconciliation

A summary of quotes reacting to attacks on public lands contained in the House Natural Resources reconciliation bill.

document May 5, 2025

Opposition Letter to Boundary Waters Provisions

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing weakening protections for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

document May 5, 2025

HNRC Reconciliation Letter for Forestry

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing forestry provisions.

Gravel road along the Border wall between New Mexico, USA and the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico at night.
(Getty Images)
Press Release April 29, 2025

Congress Moves Forward with Billions in Funding for Border Wall Construction

Community and advocacy organizations condemn funding included in the budget reconciliation proposal

A sea cucumber on top of mineral-rich nodules on the seafloor. These nodules are part of a fragile deep-sea ecosystem, with species living
in, on, and around them. (GEOMAR / CC-BY 4.0)
Press Release April 24, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Trump Administration’s Deep Seabed Mining Executive Order

The order, among other things, directs the Secretaries of Interior and Commerce to move toward issuing permits to deep sea mining corporations in both U.S. and international ocean waters.

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 April 24, 2025

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.

The Wolfman Panel in Bears Ears National Monument. (© Tim Peterson)
Press Release April 24, 2025

Report: Trump Administration Considers Attacking Six National Monuments for Energy Development

The monuments comprise over 5 million acres of national public lands across the west

In the News: KUOW April 17, 2025

Trump Administration opens half of national forest land for logging

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney of Earthjustice’s Northwest Office, speaks with Soundside about the Trump administration’s actions on federal forest management

In the News: The Seattle Times April 15, 2025

Trump proposed cutting the Northwest’s national forests. So what happens next?

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “There is no emergency … that is just part of the grift.”

document April 13, 2025

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.

Logging operations in the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. President Trump issued an executive order that seeks to increase logging in the national forest system and other federal lands. (Randi Shaffer / USDA Forest Service)
Press Release April 10, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Senate Fix Our Forests Act

“Congress should support real solutions like the Community Protection and Wildfire Resiliency Act that put the safety and needs of communities over the timber industry’s profits.”

document April 10, 2025

Senate Letter Opposing the Fix Our Forests Act 2025

Groups send opposition letter to U.S. Senators opposing the Fix our Forests Act of 2025

Logging operations in the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. President Trump issued an executive order that seeks to increase logging in the national forest system and other federal lands. (Randi Shaffer / USDA Forest Service)
Update April 9, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Put Our Federal Forests Up for Sale

If the Trump administration breaks the law to hold timber sales, we will see them in court.

A house is seen near the Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)
Press Release April 8, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Executive Orders to Boost U.S. Coal

President Trump announces executive orders to prop up coal and open public lands to destructive mining

document April 7, 2025

Groups Oppose MRCA 2025

Letter to Congress from 135 organizations, Tribes, companies and elected officials expressing strong opposition to S. 544, The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act (MRCA).

Logging operations in the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. President Trump issued an executive order that seeks to increase logging in the national forest system and other federal lands. (Randi Shaffer / USDA Forest Service)
Press Release April 4, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to ‘Emergency’ Forests Directive That Lays Groundwork for Widespread Industrial Logging

Secretarial memo following Trump Executive Order seeks widespread increase of logging across federal forests

In the News: Associated Press April 4, 2025

Trump administration rolls back forest protections in bid to ramp up logging

Blaine Miller-McFeeley, Senior Legislative Representative, Policy & Legislation: “This is all about helping the timber industry. It’s not looking at what will protect communities. It’s about the number of board feet, the number of trees you are pulling down.”