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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

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Press Release June 27, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship and Nationwide Injunctions

Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen issues statement

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.

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.

A Bureau of Land Management-maintained forest in Oregon. (Bureau of Land Management)
From the Experts May 21, 2025

House Natural Resources Committee Package Delivers Big Windfalls to Polluting Industries and Billionaires

The bill represents one of the most anti-environmental bills ever debated in the U.S. Congress.

Elk in the Rapid River Roadless area in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest. (John McCarthy / The Wilderness Society)
Press Release June 23, 2025

Earthjustice Responds as Trump Administration Takes Aim at Longstanding Rule Protecting National Forestlands

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a rollback of the Roadless Rule

A grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. (A. Falgoust / NPS)
Press Release: Victory February 21, 2025

Conservationists Land Another Victory for Grizzly Bears and Bull Trout in Flathead National Forest

Government dismisses appeal of court decision limiting road building in grizzly, bull trout habitat

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 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.

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.

JJ Waters stands in the surf along the shore near her home in Pensacola Beach, Florida. (Gregg Pachkowski for Earthjustice)
Article March 31, 2025

Trump’s Ocean Drilling Order Puts Coastal Communities at Risk. Again.

15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, we’re suing the Trump administration for attempting to reopen protected areas of the Gulf coastline for oil and gas drilling.

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 brown pelican covered in oil sits on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Jun. 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. (Charlie Riedel / AP)
Press Release February 19, 2025

Groups File First Environmental Lawsuit Vs. New Trump Administration, Challenging Illegal Order to Undo Ocean Protections from Offshore Drilling

Two legal actions challenge President Trump’s attempts to open offshore drilling

Grizzly bear sow and cubs near Roaring Mountain in Yellowstone National Park. (Eric Johnston / NPS)
Press Release December 3, 2024

Local & National Groups Sue to Stop Unlimited Bitterroot Road Building

Local advocates tap Earthjustice to bring lawsuit aiming to protect vital grizzly bear corridor

The Puyallup River, with Mount Tahoma (Rainier) in the background. (David Seibold / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Update August 23, 2024

In a Win for Endangered Salmon, Court Orders Puyallup River Dam Removal

Electron Dam has been harming Chinook salmon, steelhead, and trout for nearly 100 years. With part of the dam gone, the river will flow naturally for the first time in almost a century.

A chemical fire burns at a facility near Lake Charles, LA, in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in 2020. (David J. Phillip)
Press Release April 11, 2024

Louisiana Community and Environmental Groups Challenge Coastal Use Permits for Controversial CP2 Project

Proposed LNG export facility and pipeline would destroy coastal wetlands in one of the most vulnerable areas to flooding and sea level rise in the country

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Gabriella Demczuk / Getty Images)
Press Release May 29, 2025

Supreme Court Limits Scope of Nation’s Bedrock Environmental Law

Court sweeps aside 50-year-old method for government approvals of potentially harmful projects