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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.

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.

Hannah Springer nominated to the loea seat on the Commission for Water Resource Management.

Hawaiʻi’s largest public utility makes additional commitments to address potential threats to seabirds from power lines on Maui and Lāna‘i, while pursuing permits under the federal Endangered Species Act and state law

Process for nominating interim commissioner in the loea seat draws legal fire and community backlash

Plaintiff Hui Kānāwai ‘Oia‘i‘o seek a judicial declaration that Defendants Governor Josh Green and the Commission on Water Resource Management unlawfully and invalidly circumvented the process for nominating members of the commission.

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).

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 decision bolsters Hawaiʻi’s public trust framework, a legal doctrine establishing that natural resources must be protected for public use

Maui County pushed to comply with the Endangered Species Act

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.

As the climate crisis threatens their land, food, and traditions, 14 youth advocates took the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation to court to spur climate action.

The endemic Newell’s shearwater has a chance at survival thanks to an innovative team of conservationists, researchers, and Earthjustice lawyers.

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

Two years after the parties reached a settlement agreement, lights at the luxury resort continue to harm Hawaiian petrel chicks migrating out to sea

Settlement will protect habitat for vulnerable marine mammal populations in Southern California and Hawai‘i

Petition challenging the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources for a declaratory ruling, in connection with its approval of a petition for rulemaking to prohibit commercial aquarium collection in the State of Hawai‘i.