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document February 6, 2025

Tyson Greenwashing Case: Order Denying Motion to Dismiss

Judge Julie H. Becker denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss.

The White House in Washington, D.C. (René DeAnda / Unsplash)
feature January 19, 2025

In Conversation: The 2024 Election Outcomes and The Work Ahead

In the aftermath of the 2024 election, Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice, discussed the outcomes of the election and how they will affect Earthjustice’s litigation, advocacy, and political work.

Agriculture in the Central Valley irrigated by part of the California Aqueduct, a system of canals, tunnels and pipelines that starts in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and conveys water to Southern California. (Rolf Schulten / Getty Images)
Article January 31, 2025

Here’s What Trump’s Really Up to With His Response to L.A. Fires

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.

A natural gas flare from an offshore oil drilling rig in Cook Inlet, Alaska.
(Paul Souders / Getty Images)
Press Release January 20, 2025

Earthjustice Statement: Day One Agenda from the Trump Administration Prioritizes Extractive Industries Above All Else in Alaska

Earthjustice will continue to work with clients and partners to protect Alaska’s public lands and hasten the clean energy transition to build a vibrant and thriving state

(Angela N. / CC BY 2.0)
Press Release January 26, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Executive Order Attacking Endangered Species in California Under the Guise of Wildfire Relief

“Instead of providing relief that Californians desperately need right now to recover from deadly wildfires, President Trump is using this tragedy as an excuse to bypass the Endangered Species Act”

feature January 29, 2025

Tools for Communities: Federal Hydrogen Hub Community Guide

How communities can gain information about and influence over Hydrogen Hub projects, including DOE’s Community Benefits Plan requirements

Donald J. Trump enters the Capitol Rotunda during his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2025. (Kenny Holston / The New York Times / POOL / AFP)
feature January 20, 2025

Where the Trump Administration is Going and Where We Stand

We stand for clean air, clean water, a safe and stable climate. Earthjustice will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

President Donald Trump holds a letter to the U.N. stating the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images)
Press Release January 20, 2025

Earthjustice Blasts Trump Immigration Executive Orders

“We stand with our partners in the immigrants’ rights movement and the communities we represent to push back against an administration emboldened to launch even more repressive and extremist attacks.”

In the News: NBC January 23, 2025

Trump’s executive orders might threaten growth of electric vehicles and wind power

Paul Cort, Director of Right to Zero, Earthjustice: “California’s regulations are not just about addressing climate change. These rules were created so that California, which struggles with pollution issues, could meet its air quality and smog standards. What’s their legal standing for saying California can’t clean up its cars?”

The Florida Scrub-Jay is the only bird species found exclusively in the state of Florida. (Zach Stern / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release January 28, 2025

Conservation groups take legal action to ensure survival of declining Florida Scrub-Jay

Groups move to block effort to rescind Endangered Species Act protections

Flaring natural gas burns by jack pumps at an oil well near Buford, North Dakota in the Bakken oil fields. (William Campbell / Corbis via Getty Images)
Article January 23, 2025

Trump Unveiled His Fossil Fuel Agenda. We’ll Fight for a Clean Energy Future Instead.

A raft of executive orders envisions sweeping fossil fuel extraction on federal lands, waters

A rally against a planned hydrogen hub in the Midwest held on Nov. 16, 2024 in East Chicago, Indiana. The rally was organized and presented by Just Transition Northwest Indiana, Southeast Environmental Taskforce, and Earthjustice. (Matthew Kaplan for Earthjustice)
Press Release January 20, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Executive Order by the Trump Administration to Rollback Environmental Justice Protections

Millions of people who are most impacted by legacy pollution and environmental destruction are once again fighting for their basic rights

document January 17, 2025

Order in LNG-by-Rail Rule Challenge

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit strikes down a 2020 rule that would have allowed trains to travel the country filled with an unprecedented amount of explosive liquefied natural gas (LNG).

A great blue heron on the Yellowstone River. (Charles "Chuck" Peterson / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release: Victory January 3, 2025

Montana Supreme Court Orders Analysis of Climate Impact of Methane Gas Plant

State’s high court directs state to consider lighting and climate impacts of Yellowstone County Generating Station located on the Yellowstone River

After years of inaction by the federal government, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed long-overdue limits on six PFAS in drinking water. (Getty Images)
feature April 19, 2024

Inside EPA’s Roadmap on Regulating PFAS Chemicals

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

A sockeye salmon (<i>Oncorhynchus nerka</i>) in Little Redfish Lake Creek, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho. (Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release December 4, 2024

Earthjustice Plaintiffs Applaud Washington State’s Bold Leadership on Columbia Basin Salmon Recovery

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

Press Release July 20, 2021

Centreville Residents Sue Water Utility, City, Over Sewage and Stormwater Flooding

Residents’ homes, streets, damaged by raw sewage for decades

The Bridge Industrial South Tacoma Warehouse Project in Tacoma, Wash. ,would create significant truck traffic, air and climate pollution, and threatens to increase flooding and temperatures in the area and jeopardize the city’s aquifer and nearby streams. (© MapTiler  © OpenStreetMap contributors)
feature October 6, 2023

What You Should Know About the Bridge Industrial South Tacoma Warehouse Project

Where the warehouse project is located, its likely impacts, and how you can get involved