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Press Release July 14, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on FY26 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill

“Instead of furthering Trump’s deregulatory agenda, we urge Congress to focus on strong investments in these agencies that safeguard our environment and public health.”

A controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill sends towers of fire hundreds of feet into the air over the Gulf of Mexico on June 9, 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / US Coast Guard)
Update July 11, 2025

The Oil Company Behind the Deepwater Horizon Spill Wants to Do a Massive, Risky Drilling Project in the Gulf

What’s happening: BP, the company behind the worst oil spill in U.S. history, is asking the Trump administration to allow it to drill a new, ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. Why it matters: BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 killed 11 people and released over 5 million barrels of oil that blanketed the…

PUSH Buffalo's executive director, Dawn Wells-Clyburn, stands outside of the organization's training center. (Brandon Watson for Earthjustice)
Article July 11, 2025

Trump’s EPA Cancelled 350 Environmental Justice Grants, Then Congress Cut Funding for Future Projects. Here’s Why That Matters.

The new federal budget rescinds funding meant for communities dealing with environmental hazards – but there’s still hope that some promised investments can be salvaged.

Hikers at No Name Lake in the Three Sisters Wilderness, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon. (Holly Mandarich / Unsplash)
feature July 11, 2025

Earthjustice Fights for Our Public Lands

Clearcutting. Drilling. Overfishing. The Trump administration is selling out our public lands to profiteers.

(Guzman Barquin / Unsplash)
feature July 11, 2025

Your Favorite Beach is Under Threat

The Trump administration is opening millions of acres of ocean to oil companies. New offshore drilling risks huge oil spills.

Coal Creek Station, a coal-fired power plant located near Underwood, North Dakota. (Dan Koeck for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Press Release July 7, 2025

DOE Takes Step to Extend Lives of Polluting Power Plants Under False Energy Emergency

Forcing polluting fossil fuel plants to keep running will harm our health, climate, and wallets

Press Release July 7, 2025

Trump Administration Begins Process to Reopen Powder River Basin to New Coal Leasing

Resource management plan amendment process follows massive coal giveaways in Republican budget bill

A beaver lodge in the Sunset Roadless Area. The area is home to species including elk, bear, beaver and goshawk.
(Ted Zukoski / Earthjustice)
video July 7, 2025

The most important land protection measure of our lifetimes — the Roadless Rule — is under attack.

The Roadless Rule has protected 58 million acres of our wildest national forest lands from clearcutting for more than a generation.

(Architect of the Capitol)
Press Release July 3, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on House Passage of the Budget Reconciliation Bill

This isn’t just a dereliction of duty; it’s an unconscionable betrayal of the American people.

Navajo community leader Daniel Tso speaks out against fracking at a meeting that was required under the National Environmental Policy Act. The law gives communities a chance to speak out against projects that will impact them.
(Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 30, 2025

Trump Administration Unleashes Across-the-Board Regulatory Weakening of Key Environmental Law

Multiple federal agencies revoked longstanding regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

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. Environmental Protection Agency 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.

A fossil fuel drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. (Marc Morrison / Cavan Images / Getty Images)
From the Experts June 30, 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

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Press Release June 27, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship and Nationwide Injunctions

Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen issues statement

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