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Press Release June 30, 2025

Groups File Suit Over Approval of “Boondoggle” Yazoo Pumps Project

EPA and Army Corps illegally approved costly project without considering practicable alternatives

document June 30, 2025

Yazoo Pumps Complaint

Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.

The 2.4 million acre Flathead National Forest in Montana. (Your Forests Your Future / U.S. Forest Service)
Article June 30, 2025

5 Ways Trump Is Selling Out Our Public Lands

For decades, we’ve defended our public lands for the benefit of all people, and we’ll continue fighting back as long as Trump’s attacks continue.

A heron takes flight over wetlands in the Everglades in Florida. (Brian Lasenby / Shutterstock)
case June 27, 2025

Protecting the Everglades from a Massive Detention Center

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

document June 27, 2025

Motion for Temp Restraining Order & Preliminary Injunction, Everglades Detention Facility

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.

Press Release June 27, 2025

Grupos Entablan Demanda para Proteger los Everglades de Centro de Detención

El plan amenaza con socavar miles de millones de dólares que los contribuyentes estadounidenses invirtieron en la restauración del emblemático humedal ubicado en el sur de la Florida

Press Release June 27, 2025

Groups Sue to Protect Everglades from Reckless Detention Center

Plan threatens to undermine billions U.S. taxpayers invested in restoring Florida Everglades

document June 27, 2025

Legal Complaint: Everglades Detention Center

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

Baby honu (Hawaiian green sea turtle) in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. (Koa Matsuoka / NOAA)
Press Release June 25, 2025

Western Pacific Fishery Management Council Targets World’s Largest Conservation Area

Commercial fishing within national monument boundaries threatens protected marine habitats, endangered species, and the long-term health of our world’s oceans

Press Release: Victory June 24, 2025

Federal Appeals Court Finds EPA’s Analysis of the Climate Change Impact of Renewable Fuels Arbitrary and Capricious

EPA disregarded the results of its own climate review and made inconsistent statements

Elk in the Rapid River Roadless area in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest. (John McCarthy / The Wilderness Society)
Press Release June 23, 2025

Earthjustice Responds as Trump Administration Takes Aim at Longstanding Rule Protecting National Forestlands

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a rollback of the Roadless Rule

Sunlight breaks through the lush understory of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. (Carlos Rojas / Getty Images)
Press Release June 23, 2025

Tongass Defenders Blast the Trump Administration’s Rollback of Roadless Rule Protections on America’s Largest Forest

Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forest

A fossil fuel drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. (Marc Morrison / Cavan Images / Getty Images)
From the Experts June 23, 2025

5 Special Places That Trump’s Megabill Would Sell Out — to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

document June 20, 2025

U.S. Appeals Court Decision: Renewable Fuels Standards Program

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its ruling in the challenge to the renewable fuel volume obligations set by the Environmental Protection Agency for the years 2023-2025. The court found that arguments made by the National Wildlife Federation had merit.

Caribou make their way across the Teshekpuk Lake area of northern Alaska. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 18, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Trump Administration Plan to Open Most of the Western Arctic to Oil and Gas Drilling

The public has just two weeks to comment on an illegal drilling plan that would destroy ecologically sensitive areas and deepen the climate crisis

Snake River's blue waters stand out against green landscape with Teton Mountain Range ascending in the background. Grand Tetons National Park, Teton County, Wyoming. (Edwin Remsberg / Getty Images)
Update June 17, 2025

Trump Administration Reneges on Deal to Save Salmon in the Northwest

The Trump administration’s decision to abandon the agreement continues the administration’s pattern of breaking promises, ignoring science, and devaluing our iconic lands and wildlife.

A sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) at Little Redfish Lake Creek trap, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho. (Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release June 12, 2025

Plaintiffs Represented by Earthjustice Condemn Trump Administration’s Unilateral Withdrawal from Historic Columbia Basin Agreement

The administration’s decision reneges on promised investments in fisheries and clean energy, and ignores federal, state, tribal science on the need for urgent action to prevent extinction and rebuild healthy and abundant salmon

Much of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is protected from logging and roadbuilding thanks to the roadless rule.
(Ivan Kish / Getty Images)
Press Release June 11, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Reintroduction of the Roadless Area Conservation Act

The bill would permanently codify the U.S. Forest Service’s roadless rule into federal law, protecting over 50 million acres of national forests from logging and other development