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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.

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.

We respectfully submit the following brief in the name of the Earthjustice International Program in response to the call for inputs on oceans and human rights in preparation of a thematic report to be presented to the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Earthjustice presents to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the important relationship between the ocean and human rights.

Two legal actions challenge President Trump’s attempts to open offshore drilling

Amid a flurry of anti-environment executive orders on his first day in office, Trump issued an order to revoke former president Biden’s protection of millions of acres of undeveloped public waters from future oil and gas drilling.

Executive order gives oil and gas companies a green light to drill in public waters that had been protected off almost every U.S. coast.

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, Oceans at Earthjustice, explains the legal challenge to block the Trump administration’s illegal ocean drilling plan.

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program: “Biden used the power to take areas off the table that are not being used and are not really important for oil and gas leasing. He decided we do not really need to lease in these areas for national security or oil independence, and utilizing them carries a great risk…

Coalition condemns Bureau of Land Management’s decision to continue granting new oil and gas wells in the heavily-polluted San Joaquin Valley

Learn about key nominees in the Trump administration’s second term, and the powers they will have.

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

Earthjustice will use the power of the law to defend the right to a healthy environment.

The president used a federal law to ban future oil and gas drilling in parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico.

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

Offshore emissions major source of Gulf pollution

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, Oceans: “Every president this century has recognized that some areas of the ocean are just too risky or too sensitive to drill.”

Now is the time to let the administration know we won’t stand for selling America’s public lands to the highest bidding polluter.