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The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature September 23, 2025

The Intermountain West: Regional Spotlight

Our teams in Bozeman, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, have spent decades fighting to defend the web of life, to protect people’s health, and to advance a just transition to clean energy. We’re pleased to share highlights of our progress, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Old-growth trees on Kosciusko Island, Tongass National Forest, Prince of Wales, Alaska. The Roadless Rule protects about half of the Tongass, the crown jewel of the National Forest system and home to nearly one-third of all old-growth temperate rainforest remaining in the entire world. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
Press Release September 23, 2025

Proposal to Scrap Roadless Rule Draws Public Outcry

At least half a million say ‘No’ in initial round of public comment

document September 19, 2025

Roadless Rule NGO Sign-On Letter 9-19-25

329 organizations joined a sign-on letter opposing the proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule.

A view of the northwest section of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona. (U.S. Department of the Interior)
Press Release September 18, 2025

Groups Denounce Gosar Bills to Nullify Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National and Ironwood Forest National Monuments

Bills would undermine critical land protections and the leadership of local Tribes

Press Release September 4, 2025

Tras Bloqueo Judicial del Centro de Detención de los Everglades, Grupos Prometen Impugnación

Los grupos conservacionistas continuarán luchando contra la apelación de los demandados federales y estatales contra la orden judicial preliminar en la corte de apelaciones

A heron takes flight over wetlands in the Everglades in Florida. (Brian Lasenby / Shutterstock)
Update September 4, 2025

We’re Fighting to Protect the Everglades from a Massive Detention Center

Florida and the Trump administration have been ramming through the construction of an immigration detention facility within the Florida Everglades, the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere.

Press Release September 3, 2025

México Impulsa Nuevas Obras en Puerto de Veracruz que Amenazan Arrecifes y Ecosistemas Terrestres, Pese a Fallo de la Suprema Corte

El Gobierno de México anunció que en septiembre iniciará la construcción de la escollera sur del puerto de Veracruz sobre el arrecife La Gallega, con más de 3 km de extensión. Con esto se sigue incumpliendo lo ordenado por la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación

A photographer makes pictures of old-growth trees in the Siuslaw National Forest in western Oregon. (David Herasimtschuk)
feature August 27, 2025

The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands

These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.

Área talada al norte de la bahía Thorne, en la isla Príncipe de Gales, en terrenos del Servicio Forestal de EE. UU., dentro del Bosque Nacional Tongass, Alaska. (David Herasimtschuk para Earthjustice)
Press Release August 27, 2025

Respuesta de Earthjustice al Ataque de la Administración Trump Contra Bosques Nacionales

La Regla Sin Carreteras ha protegido millones de acres de tierras públicas estadounidenses durante una generación.

document August 27, 2025

Action Tool Kit: Protecting our Roadless Forests

One of the most important land protection measure of our lifetimes — The Roadless Rule — is under attack. The Roadless Rule has protected 58 million acres of our forest lands for more than a generation, but the Trump administration wants to undo these protections in all but two states in the name of profit. We won’t let that happen — and we need your voice.

A beaver lodge in the Sunset Roadless Area. The area is home to species including elk, bear, beaver and goshawk.
(Ted Zukoski / Earthjustice)
feature August 27, 2025

Timeline of the Roadless Rule

A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

Stormy Hamar, a Haida artist and carver and a member of the Organized Village of Kasaan Tribal Council, is working to protect the remaining old-growth trees on Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
Article August 27, 2025

What the Tongass Needs is Time to Heal, Not More Logging

The Organized Village of Kasaan is fighting alongside other Southeast Alaska tribes and forest advocates to defend the Tongass National Forest.

Clearcut area north of Thorne Bay on Prince of Wales Island on U.S. Forest Service land within the Tongass National Forest, Alaska. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 27, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Attack on Cherished National Forests

The Roadless Rule has protected millions of acres of U.S. public lands for a generation

Zack Porter, Executive Director of Standing Trees, in a mature eastern hardwood forest in Telephone Gap, Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont. The largest roadless areas in Vermont are found in the Green Mountain National Forest. (Kurt Budliger for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 27, 2025

Trump Administration Attempt to Repeal Roadless Rule Met With Widespread Opposition

Agriculture Department initiates process targeting bedrock conservation policy that protects 45 million acres of national forests

A controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill sends towers of fire hundreds of feet into the air over the Gulf of Mexico on June 9, 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / US Coast Guard)
Update August 26, 2025

Government Rejects New Drilling Proposal from the Company Behind the Deepwater Horizon Spill

What’s happening: The federal government has rejected an initial proposal by BP, the company behind the worst oil spill in U.S. history, to build a new, ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision came after Members of Congress sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, urging the agency not to…

Press Release August 26, 2025

Members of Congress Urge Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to Reject BP’s Ultra-deepwater Oil Drilling Proposal in Gulf of Mexico

Members have serious concerns about BP’s readiness to safely operate “Kaskida” project

document August 26, 2025

Congressional Kaskida Letter

Members of Congress urge the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to reject BP’s proposed Kaskida project.

document August 21, 2025

Orden Cautelar (En inglés)

Orden cautelar por jueza federal, con respecto al centro ubicado en los Everglades