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

Groups express wide opposition to proposed legislation

Three Alaska Native tribes challenge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of a fill permit for a controversial suction dredge gold mining operation proposed about 30 miles east of Nome in Northwest Alaska.

Environmental laws have made our lives safer and healthier. Earthjustice will fight for them in court.

Proposed rule would eliminate habitat protections for endangered species in the midst of extinction crisis

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “Coal has been on the decline for decades, not because of federal policies, but because it’s dirty and it’s increasingly unreliable as our coal fleet ages. And it can’t compete on a level playing field with renewable energy sources.”

Livestock groups’ concerns and requested management changes were already addressed

Upon reconsideration, judge rejects Idaho’s rare request to reverse decision

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.

Conservation groups ask Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to reject livestock industry petition

Riders Alliance and Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, filed a new legal complaint against the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT) for attempting to end New York City’s long-awaited Congestion Pricing program, less than two months after the program’s successful launch. The legal complaint charges that the Trump administration made serious legal mistakes in its rush to deprive New Yorkers of the benefits of Congestion Pricing, and that these mistakes suggest that the administration is acting pretextually.

Earthjustice sued the Trump administration on behalf of nonprofits and small farmers for unlawfully withholding grant funds appropriated by Congress through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies will wreak havoc on laws that protect everyone’s health and the environment.

Montana’s Colstrip plant asks Trump administration for clean air standard exemption

This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s unlawful purge of climate-related policies, guides, datasets, and resources from its websites, without any advance notice as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act, without engaging in reasoned decision-making as required by the Administrative Procedure Act, and in violation of its obligation under the Freedom of Information Act to publish certain information proactively.

Grizzly bears are facing growing threats to their survival in the Northern Rockies. The government just took a step in the right direction by rejecting state appeals to remove their protections.

Science shows that true recovery of grizzly bears requires a unified population with connected ecosystems.

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “It appears the design of the Trump administration is to unleash a host of harmful development activity in communities that sorely need the opportunities NEPA provides to have a voice. It’s creating chaos and gridlock, and much more troubling, it will endanger and silence communities that have used…