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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.

Interior failed to properly evaluate the harm from billion-barrel oil lease sale

Interior Dept. failed to properly evaluate the harm from billion-barrel oil lease sale.

Jim Pew, Director of Federal Clean Air Practice, Earthjustice: “It’s hard to imagine how these exemptions could be lawful.”

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.

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “I’m thrilled to see that Maryland is stepping up, because we’re going to need the states to hold the line and enforce the federal rule. In a couple of years, those federal regulations may not be on the books.”

Crypto mines have raised electricity rates for households while receiving big discounts and subsidies.

Laura Beth Resnick of Butterbee Farm and Hana Vizcarra, attorney at Earthjustice, explain how Americans are stuck with the bill when the federal government reneges on its Inflation Reduction Act commitments.

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.

Utility falsely promoted gas as “clean energy” and downplayed environmental harms in customer bill inserts

Unpermitted massive coal ash pile growing for years near the Allegheny River will now be removed by next year, preventing contamination

Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The idea was that the coal ash would be parked there for a little while while it cooled, and then it would be taken to a (permanent) disposal area. It overflowed fences. It overflowed into a ditch with water on it running off the site … it just became…

122 organizations, tribes, companies and elected officials expressed strong opposition to S.544 & H.R. 1366, The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act (MRCA).

Now is the time to let the administration know we won’t stand for selling America’s public lands to the highest bidding polluter.

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

Alaska tribal organizations express disappointment over the ruling, which allows fisheries managers to use older studies resulting in poor fisheries decisions favoring commercial trawling over subsistence harvests

Executive order gives oil and gas companies a green light to drill in public waters that had been protected off almost every U.S. coast.

Amid a flurry of anti-environment executive orders on his first day in office, Trump issued an order to revoke former president Biden’s protection of millions of acres of undeveloped public waters from future oil and gas drilling.