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New York Governor Hochul and Legislature Finalize the SFY2025-26 Budget; Includes New Climate Funding and a Boost to the Environmental Protection Fund

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

New federal protections secured through Earthjustice litigation will help ensure that wolverines, a snow-dependent species, can survive a warming world.

Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Fish and Wildlife Service to list species as threatened following decades of litigation

The announcement comes after decades of litigation and public calls to save wolverines from development and climate change.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

As a candidate species, the wolverine will be afforded certain protections under the Endangered Species Act

Denial of Endangered Species Act protections ignored risks from climate change, habitat fragmentation

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.

With fewer than 300 wolverines left in the contiguous United States, there is no justification for the FWS’ decision to deny protection

Groups file intent to sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Settlement orders U.S. Fish & Wildlife to act following four years delay

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.