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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.

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

Motion to intervene filed in a lawsuit from Montana and Wyoming

Swinomish seeks to defend NOAA Fisheries Biological Opinion that protects ESA-listed Chinook Salmon, endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales

Learn about the major events, court rulings, and where we are now in this long-standing fight.

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community filed a motion to intervene as a defendant to support NOAA Fisheries’ Biological Opinion (“BiOp”) that found Skagit Dike District 12’s No Name Slough tidegate complex replacement would result in “jeopardy” to ESA-listed Chinook salmon and endangered Southern Resident killer whales unless estuary habitat mitigation measures were completed.

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.

Working with four nonprofit environmental organizations — Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, RE Sources, Toxic-Free Future, and Waste Action Project — Earthjustice advocated for more stringent pollution controls for the wastewater treatment plant to help protect salmon, orcas, and people.

Washington’s leadership affirms the state’s commitment to restore healthy and abundant salmon and steelhead fisheries in the Columbia and Snake rivers

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.

Trump’s actions would drain freshwater from a 1,000-square-mile estuary that provides drinking water to millions of people, irrigates the surrounding farmland, and sustains a salmon fishing industry.

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.

Tribes call for dam removal and restoration of healthy salmon and orca populations during emotional two-day summit.

Amanda Goodin, Attorney, Northwest Office: “The alliance will continue, and that policy will continue. The agreement that’s in place is a strong one, so they [feds] would be wise to continue. For a long time, some have pitted healthy and abundant salmon against other interests in the region. You can have salmon and agriculture.”

Each legal matter that Earthjustice takes on is a commitment to our clients and partners — a promise to fight alongside them for however long it takes.

Salmon advocates commend the move to revise the study as a critical next step in a comprehensive plan to restore the Columbia Basin’s native fisheries

A new report highlights the need for concrete action to restore salmon populations and honor treaty obligations.

Motion to intervene filed in Montana suit over Yellowstone’s plans for America’s national mammal