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Navajo community leader Daniel Tso speaks out against fracking at a meeting that was required under the National Environmental Policy Act. The law gives communities a chance to speak out against projects that will impact them.
(Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 30, 2025

Trump Administration Unleashes Across-the-Board Regulatory Weakening of Key Environmental Law

Multiple federal agencies revoked longstanding regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

A fossil fuel drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. (Marc Morrison / Cavan Images / Getty Images)
From the Experts June 30, 2025

5 Special Places That Trump’s Megabill Would Sell Out — to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

Jennifer Hadayia, the Executive Director of Air Alliance Houston, on June 20, 2025, in Houston, Texas. (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 25, 2025

Nonprofits, Tribes and Local Governments Sue Trump Administration for Terminating EPA Grant Programs

Terminating these programs leaves communities more vulnerable to pollution and disasters

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.

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

Press Release June 27, 2025

Grupos Entablan Demanda para Proteger los Everglades de Centro de Detención

El plan amenaza con socavar miles de millones de dólares que los contribuyentes estadounidenses invirtieron en la restauración del emblemático humedal ubicado en el sur de la Florida

Press Release June 26, 2025

Community and Environmental Groups Condemn New Oil and Gas Drilling in Kern County

Kern’s Board of Supervisors voted to approve a zoning ordinance that will fast-track thousands of new oil and gas wells in California’s Central Valley

The 68 coal-fired power plants exempted from mercury and arsenic pollution limits span 23 states. (Source: <a href="https://www.edf.org/maps/epa-pollution-pass/" class="a_color--black">Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Integrity Project analysis of EPA data</a>)
feature June 12, 2025

Corporations Emailed. Then 68 Power Plants Got a Pass to Pollute.

Using a loophole, the Trump administration exempted coal power plants from mercury and arsenic limits, polluting the air we breathe.

Sunlight breaks through the lush understory of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. (Carlos Rojas / Getty Images)
Press Release June 23, 2025

Tongass Defenders Blast the Trump Administration’s Rollback of Roadless Rule Protections on America’s Largest Forest

Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forest

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.

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.

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.

Los camiones circulan por la carretera interestatal 80 el 18 de febrero de 2014 en Berkeley, California, cuando el presidente estadounidense Barack Obama anunció que su administración está comenzando a desarrollar una nueva fase de estándares más estrictos de eficiencia de combustible para vehículos medianos y pesados. Había ordenado a la Agencia de Protección Ambiental y a la Administración Nacional de Seguridad del Tráfico en las Carreteras del Departamento de Transporte que crearan e impusieran nuevos estándares de eficiencia de combustible y de gases de efecto invernadero antes del 31 de marzo de 2016. (Justin Sullivan)
Press Release June 9, 2025

Camioneros Solicitan que el Gobierno Federal Aplique Reglas de Material Peligroso de Residuos de Petróleo y Gas

Camioneros se unen con ambientalistas para exigir condiciones más seguras, capacitación adecuada y un salario justo para los camioneros que transportan desechos tóxicos del fracking de los campos petrolíferos.

Trucks drive along Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif. (Justin Sullivan)
Press Release June 9, 2025

Truckers Petition Feds to Enforce HAZMAT Rules on Oil and Gas Waste

Truckers join environmentalists to demand safer conditions, proper training and fair pay for truckers hauling hazardous materials from oilfields

The White House in Washington, D.C. (René DeAnda / Unsplash)
feature March 7, 2025

In Conversation: Not On Our Watch – Taking on the Trump Administration

Earthjustice’s plans during the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, and the actions we’re already taking to protect the health of frontline communities, wildlife, and our shared climate future.

From left: Walter Jim, Chair of the Orutsararmiut Native Council (ONC), Ray Watson, an ONC Council Member, and William Igkurak, Council President of the Native Village of Kwigillingok, presented at the 2025 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon, on the threat of the Donlin Gold mine to their Kuskokwim River communities.  (Rebecca Bowe / Earthjustice)
feature June 4, 2025

Mining Makes No Sense to the Southwest Alaska Tribes Challenging the Donlin Gold Mine

Alaska Native tribal leaders explain how a massive gold mine proposed in their region poses grave risks to villages, food security and continued tribal traditions

Coral at Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge.
(James Maragos / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Press Release June 3, 2025

Third ‘Upwell: A Wave of Ocean Justice’ Symposium Spotlights Continued Fight for Ocean Justice

Advocates representative of historically-excluded and marginalized communities gathered to center ocean justice ahead of World Ocean Day

document May 6, 2025

Quote Sheet for Forestry Provision in Reconciliation Bill

Quotes from groups opposing forestry provisions in budget reconciliation bill.