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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.

The U.S. Army is formally ending live-fire training in Mākua Valley – a critical step towards restoring peace to a spiritual refuge ravaged by a century of militarization.

After 25 years of community advocacy, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army declare Mākua safe from future use of mortars, artillery, and other live-fire training

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.

After decades of advocacy, the Secretary of Defense announced that live-fire training will never happen at the Mākua Military Reservation again.

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.

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.

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

Mālama Mākua and Defendants Sec. of Defense and Sec of the U.S. Army, re defendants’ recent decision that they no longer need to conduct live-fire training at Mākua Military Reservation (MMR), now or in the future, and, therefore, no new unexploded ordnance (UXO) will be added to MMR.

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.

The Superior Court for the District of Columbia denied Tyson Food, Inc.’s efforts to avoid liability and allowed the case to move forward.

Court sends strong reminder that Presidential Executive Orders must follow the law

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U.S. Court of International Trade Complaint: By authorizing imports of seafood from harmful fisheries in New Zealand, the federal government is not only neglecting their duty to protect the world’s marine mammal species from decline, but facilitating the extinction of the most endangered marine dolphin in the world: the Māui dolphin.

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.