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What’s happening: BP, the company behind the worst oil spill in U.S. history, is asking the Trump administration to allow it to drill a new, ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. Why it matters: BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 killed 11 people and released over 5 million barrels of oil that blanketed the…

On June 18, 2025 public interest groups challenged the Department of Energy’s illegal extension of the J.H. Campbell power plant past its planned expiration.

The preliminary injunction urges the court to order restoration of vital grants and funding that support tree planting, growing food in underserved communities, training new farmers, and helping farmers adopt climate-friendly practices

Plaintiffs Friends of the Everglade and Center for Biological Diversity respectfully file this motion for expedited relief seeking entry of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo during the pendency of this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to enforce the National Environmental Policy Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and state and local laws prohibiting the ongoing construction of an immigration detention center within the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.

BPA plans to join the Markets+ energy market over a larger Western one; the choice would cause a spike in energy bills and reduce access to clean energy for Northwest power customers

The Motion for Preliminary Injunction, filed by Earthjustice, Farmers Justice Center, and FarmSTAND, calls upon the court to order the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to restore vital grants, enjoin USDA’s unlawful policy and practice of terminating grants in this manner, and return to the grant conditions that existed before USDA engaged in these unlawful actions.

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

A coalition of conservation groups, Alaska tribes, a commercial fishing advocacy group and an ecotourism operator request to intervene in a timber industry legal challenge that seeks to revive industrial old-growth logging in the Tongass National Forest.

A coalition of groups filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit from 17 states against the Trump administration for the unlawful freeze of billions for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure

Timber interests try to force more old-growth logging sales in the Tongass National Forest

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

Public interest groups challenge the Department of Energy’s sham order

Truckers join environmentalists to demand safer conditions, proper training and fair pay for truckers hauling hazardous materials from oilfields

Environmental laws have made our lives safer and healthier. Earthjustice will fight for them in court.

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.

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.

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

Wide range of nonprofits take action against U.S. Department of Agriculture for illegal withholding of important funding, seek order to reverse grant terminations