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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 17, 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.

document March 27, 2025

Great Salt Lake Motion To Dismiss Decision

A state district court judge paved the way for a landmark public trust suit over Utah’s failure to protect the Great Salt Lake to move forward, despite the objections of state officials.

Press Release March 18, 2025

Farmers and Advocates Seek Preliminary Injunction Requiring USDA to Restore Purged Climate Webpages

Farmers have been stripped of vital digital resources due to the Trump Administration’s climate webpage purge; Motion seeks to restore access and prevent additional webpage removals

document March 6, 2025

EPA RMP Filing: Unopposed Motion to Hold Cases in Abeyance

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a rulemaking process after corporate lobbyists pressed the agency to dismantle safeguards against chemical disasters.

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.

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 March 26, 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 now-closed Waukegan Generating Station, on the shore of Lake Michigan in Waukegan, Ill. The coal-fired power plant still has sizable coal ash ponds threatening the environment. (Jamie Kelter Davis for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 11, 2024

Statement on the Supreme Court Denial of a Stay of EPA’s Legacy Coal Ash Rule

The EPA’s Legacy CCR Surface Impoundment Rule extends safeguards to hundreds of coal ash dump sites that had been left unregulated

document February 3, 2025

Tyson Greenwashing Case: Order Denying Motion to Dismiss

Judge Julie H. Becker denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss.

document February 12, 2025

Brief in Motion to Intervene to Defend Southern California’s Landmark Rule to Advance Zero-Emissions Water Heaters & Boilers

People’s Collective for Environmental Justice, Sierra Club, and Industrious Labs move to intervene as defendants in Rinnai America Corp., et al., v. South Coast Air Quality Management District

document January 28, 2025

Motion to Protect Florida Scrub-Jay

Motion to Protect Florida Scrub-Jay

In the News: WhoWhatWhy January 21, 2025

Not Out of the Woods: Grizzly Bears Stay on Endangered List but Trouble Looms

Mary Cochenour, Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “There are videos of 399 walking through downtown Jackson in the middle of the night with her four cubs … She could have very easily been attracted to garbage and such, but the community always pulled together and worked really hard to remove those attractants in order to keep…

North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. (EcoFlight)
Press Release February 20, 2025

Legal Intervention Defends Powder River Basin Coal Leasing Decision

Motion to intervene filed in a lawsuit from Montana and Wyoming

(Ceci Freed / Earthjustice)
video April 2, 2025

Legal Experts Explain the Harms of EPA’s Deregulatory Agenda

A huge array of environmental protections are on the chopping block.

document December 20, 2024

Motion to Intervene: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper: Improvements

Motion of Newburgh Clean Water Project, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club to intervene in support of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the challenge to the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper: Improvements.

Press Release September 20, 2024

Supreme Court Should Deny Shadow Docket Requests to Block Methane Pollution Limits

Health, environmental, community groups urge court not to stay vital climate, health protections

document August 20, 2024

Motion for Stay of Permit for Hoquiam Washington Wood Pellet Facility

Five Northwest and national environmental groups ask the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board to stay an air permit for an industrial-scale wood pellet plant in Hoquiam, Washington, suspending construction and operation of the facility until the legal challenge is resolved.

document November 21, 2024

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s Motion to Intervene to Support NOAA BiOp for Skagit Tide Gates

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community filed a motion to intervene as a defendant to support NOAA Fisheries’ Biological Opinion (“BiOp”) that found Skagit Dike District 12’s No Name Slough tidegate complex replacement would result in “jeopardy” to ESA-listed Chinook salmon and endangered Southern Resident killer whales unless estuary habitat mitigation measures were completed.