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The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature May 7, 2025

Biodiversity and Ecosystems Program Report

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.

Clockwise from top left: Laura Beth Resnick of Butterbee Farm. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice) Controlled burn during BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / U.S. Coast Guard) Subway train on the 7 line in Queens, New York City. (Marco Bottigelli / Getty Images) An oil-coated feather on a Florida beach in 2010, following the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. (Tech. Sgt. Emily F. Alley / U.S. Air Force)
feature May 2, 2025

Our Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration

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

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)
feature April 29, 2025

Where the Trump Administration is Going and Where We Stand

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

Strong laws and government agencies have measurably improved public health. In this 1972 photo, children play while a smelter in Tacoma, Washington, spews arsenic and lead residue. (Gene Daniels / EPA / National Archives)
Article April 28, 2025

What Our Trump Lawsuits Are All About

The environmental movement has made huge gains since the 1970s, and we won’t let the lawless actions of the current administration reverse our hard-won progress.

More than 100,000 Native American archaeological and cultural sites, some dating to 12,000 B.C., are protected in Bears Ears National Monument. (Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
feature April 24, 2025

What You Should Know About the Antiquities Act and National Monuments

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.

The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature April 21, 2025

The Intermountain West: Regional Spotlight

Our teams in Bozeman, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, have spent decades fighting to safeguard biodiversity, to advance a just transition to clean energy, and to protect people’s health. We’re pleased to share highlights of our progress, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Dionna Brown, the National Director of Youth Environmental Justice Policy at Young, Gifted, and Green in downtown Flint, Michigan. (Brittany Greeson for Earthjustice)
Article April 17, 2025

Millions of Americans Are Still Exposed to Lead. Take Action to Help.

A Republican-run Congress may repeal lead exposure protections, endangering millions of lives in the U.S. We are ready to fight back.

Projected lead service lines in the United States. (Casey Chin / Earthjustice. Data: EPA)
feature April 11, 2025

Attacks on Lead Protections Threaten Nation’s Drinking Water

The Trump administration and certain members of Congress are trying to roll back protections for lead in drinking water. But there are ways to fight back.

Earthjustice clients impacted by the Trump administration's freezing of federal funds appropriated from the Inflation Reduction Act. Brien Darby (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice). Elisa Lane (Photo courtesy of Ann-Marie VanTassell). Mark Magaña (Photo courtesy of GreenLatinos). Laura Beth Resnick (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice). Brian Sauder (Eric Davis for Earthjustice)
feature April 9, 2025

Earthjustice’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze

The government reneged on its promise to provide federal grant money to fund climate projects. We’re suing on behalf of grant recipients who have been harmed.

The George Washington Bridge and the Hudson River are shrouded in heavy smog in 1973. (Chester Higgins / EPA / National Archives)
feature April 9, 2025

This Is What the U.S. Used to Look Like. We’re Not Going Back.

Environmental laws have made our lives safer and healthier. Earthjustice will fight for them in court.

Logging operations in the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. President Trump issued an executive order that seeks to increase logging in the national forest system and other federal lands. (Randi Shaffer / USDA Forest Service)
Update April 9, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Put Our Federal Forests Up for Sale

If the Trump administration breaks the law to hold timber sales, we will see them in court.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) speaks at a demonstration outside of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington on Feb. 6, 2025. Markey and other lawmakers were blocked from entering the EPA and meeting with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials. (Andrew Thomas / NurPhoto via AP)
Update April 8, 2025

We Will Not Just Watch Our Government Get Dismantled

The Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies will wreak havoc on laws that protect everyone’s health and the environment.

JJ Waters stands in the surf along the shore near her home in Pensacola Beach, Florida. (Gregg Pachkowski for Earthjustice)
Article March 31, 2025

Trump’s Ocean Drilling Order Puts Coastal Communities at Risk. Again.

15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, we’re suing the Trump administration for attempting to reopen protected areas of the Gulf coastline for oil and gas drilling.

EPA staff members stand near a sign warning of hazardous materials on the waste rock dam at the Sulphur Bank mercury mine Superfund site in Clearlake Oaks, California. EPA's Superfund program is responsible for cleaning up some of the nation's most contaminated sites. (Jane Tyska / Digital First Media / East Bay Times via Getty Images)
Article March 20, 2025

He Worked to Clean up Superfund Sites. The Trump Administration Fired Him.

Thousands of firings across the EPA and other federal agencies put our environment and public health at risk.

Imágenes de flores silvestres y las Montañas Mule, ubicadas en el Monumento Nacional Chuckwalla. (Bob Wick)
Update March 19, 2025

La Administración Trump Indica que Intentará Eliminar dos Monumentos Nacionales en California

Los ataques a estos populares monumentos pondrían en peligro innumerables lugares sagrados, paisajes y recursos culturales.

A view of wildflowers and the Mule Mountains located in Chuckwalla National Monument. (Bob Wick)
Update March 18, 2025

Trump Administration Signals It Will Try to Eliminate 2 National Monuments in California

Attacks on Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands national monuments would jeopardize countless sacred sites, landscapes, and cultural resources.

Maria Lopez-Nuñez at her community garden in the Ironbound section of Newark. (Brian W. Fraser)
Article March 17, 2025

Trump Desmantela Políticas de Justicia Ambiental, Pero la Lucha Continúa

La administración está recortando iniciativas destinadas a ayudar a comunidades racializadas y de bajos ingresos que enfrentan altas cargas de contaminación.

Maria Lopez-Nuñez at her community garden in the Ironbound section of Newark. (Brian W. Fraser)
Article March 14, 2025

Trump Guts Environmental Justice Policies, but the Fight for Justice Continues

The administration is slashing initiatives meant to help communities of color and low-income communities facing high pollution burdens.