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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 27, 2025

Motion for Temp Restraining Order & Preliminary Injunction, Everglades Detention Facility

Plaintiffs Friends of the Everglade and Center for Biological Diversity respectfully file this motion for expedited relief seeking entry of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo during the pendency of this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to enforce the National Environmental Policy Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and state and local laws prohibiting the ongoing construction of an immigration detention center within the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.

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.

Clockwise from top left: Laura Beth Resnick of Butterbee Farm. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice) Controlled burn during BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / U.S. Coast Guard) Subway train on the 7 line in Queens, New York City. (Marco Bottigelli / Getty Images) An oil-coated feather on a Florida beach in 2010, following the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. (Tech. Sgt. Emily F. Alley / U.S. Air Force)
feature June 27, 2025

Our Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

document June 18, 2025

Motion to Intervene and Request for Rehearing of Order No. 202-25-3, Campbell Power Plant

On June 18, 2025 public interest groups challenged the Department of Energy’s illegal extension of the J.H. Campbell power plant past its planned expiration.

Thirteen youth from across the Hawaiian Islands brought the case <em>Navahine v. Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation</em>, the first youth-led constitutional climate case addressing climate pollution from the transportation sector. (Elyse Butler for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 30, 2025

State Plan to Reduce Transportation Emissions Released for Public Comment

This is a major early step in the recent settlement of Hawai‘i’s youth climate lawsuit, Navahine v. HDOT

document May 28, 2025

Motion to Intervene to Defend the Tongass Against Alaska Forest Association Legal Challenge

A coalition of conservation groups, Alaska tribes, a commercial fishing advocacy group and an ecotourism operator request to intervene in a timber industry legal challenge that seeks to revive industrial old-growth logging in the Tongass National Forest.

Logging in the Tongass National Forest. (Colin Arisman / Wild Confluence Media)
Press Release May 28, 2025

Tribes, Fishing and Forest Advocates Intervene to Defend the Tongass Against Increased Old-Growth Logging

Timber interests try to force more old-growth logging sales in the Tongass National Forest

document May 22, 2025

Motion to Intervene in NEVI EV Charging Lawsuit

A coalition of groups filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit from 17 states against the Trump administration for the unlawful freeze of billions for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure

Jennifer Hadayia, the Executive Director of Air Alliance Houston, on June 20, 2025, in Houston, Texas. (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice)
Article June 26, 2025

Our First Class Action Lawsuit Takes on Trump Administration to Get Communities the Funding They’re Owed

Earthjustice is suing the administration for unlawfully terminating $3 billion in EPA grant programs designed to fund public health and community resilience initiatives

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)
feature April 29, 2025

Where the Trump Administration is Going and Where We Stand

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

Press Release June 18, 2025

Ten Groups Push Back Against Trump’s Illegal Campbell Plant Extension

Public interest groups challenge the Department of Energy’s sham order

A beaver lodge in the Sunset Roadless Area. The area is home to species including elk, bear, beaver and goshawk.
(Ted Zukoski / Earthjustice)
feature June 23, 2025

Timeline of the Roadless Rule

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

document June 27, 2025

Legal Complaint: Everglades Detention Center

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

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

A sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) at Little Redfish Lake Creek trap, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho. (Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release June 12, 2025

Plaintiffs Represented by Earthjustice Condemn Trump Administration’s Unilateral Withdrawal from Historic Columbia Basin Agreement

The administration’s decision reneges on promised investments in fisheries and clean energy, and ignores federal, state, tribal science on the need for urgent action to prevent extinction and rebuild healthy and abundant salmon

document February 24, 2025

Motion to Intervene: Yellowstone Bison

The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, alongside conservation groups, filed a motion to join a lawsuit to defend Yellowstone National Park’s science-based bison management plan.

document February 20, 2025

Motion to Intervene: Powder River Basin

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, alongside Tribal and conservation groups, filed a motion to join a lawsuit to defend the Biden administration’s 2024 decision ending new coal leasing on public lands in Wyoming and Eastern Montana’s Powder River Basin.