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Dozens of unpermitted gas turbines, the target of a citizen suit filed by the NAACP, operate in Mississippi to power xAI's nearby Memphis data center. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)

Article June 16, 2026

Why Trump Is Going After Your Right to Take Polluters to Court (and How We’re Fighting Back)

Citizens suits are powerful tools to enforce the law, which is why the Trump administration is attacking them.

Yellowtail surgeonfish (Prionurus punctatus) graze along shallow rocks in the Gulf of California. (Brent Durand / Getty Images)

Article June 12, 2026

Protecting the ‘Aquarium of the World’ From a Gas Industry Takeover

The fossil fuel industry wanted to turn the Gulf of California, home to thousands of marine species, into a gas hub — and lost. We partnered with environmental advocates in…

People protest against the public-private partnership between the public instrumentality and LUMA Energy in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2021. (Alejandro Granadillo / NurPhoto / Getty Images)

feature June 11, 2026

Powering an Energy Revolution in Puerto Rico

Earthjustice and its partners are fighting for an affordable, resilient distributed renewable energy system that will safeguard Puerto Rico’s energy security, independence, and natural resources.

The Pipe Out Paddle Up Floatilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City, Michigan, on Saturday, September 3, 2022. (David Ruck for Earthjustice)

feature June 9, 2026

Guide to the Public Hearing on the Line 5 Pipeline

This is our last chance to speak directly to EGLE and urge them to protect the Great Lakes.

The 19 million acres of tundra, rivers and mountains of the Arctic Refuge shelter migratory birds from all 50 states and six continents each summer. To the Gwich'in people of northeast Alaska, this is sacred ground. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Update June 5, 2026

Big Oil Stays Away from the Arctic Refuge, But the Fight Isn’t Over

The Trump administration tried to sell off the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to Big Oil with a lease sale on June 5.

(Florida FIsh and Wildlife Conservation Commission)

From the Experts May 29, 2026

Why We Joined Fishers in a Legal Case to Protect Red Snapper

Overishing nearly wiped out red snapper spawning in the 1990s. A Court granted a preliminary injunction to stop a newly proposed fishing "free-for-all."

Article May 27, 2026

To the New Lawyers: You Are the Change Agents We Need

Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen addressed graduates of the Vermont Law and Graduate School on May 16, 2026.

feature May 27, 2026

Mississippi “Data Center Giveaway Law” Leaves Residents in the Dark and Could Already Be Costing Utility Customers ~$11/mo.

A state law is failing to protect households from potentially rising power bills. How lawmakers and utilities can fix this.

The Stanton Energy Center coal plant and coal ash storage located near Orlando, Florida. (J Henry Fair for Earthjustice / <a href="https://www.jhenryfair.com/" class="a_color--black">jhenryfair.com</a>)

From the Experts May 27, 2026

EPA’s New Coal Ash Proposal Is a Gift to Polluters

How the Trump EPA is weakening safeguards against toxic coal ash pollution.

Earthjustice attorney Fernando Gaytan, Long Beach Mayor Rex Richarson, and Joe Sullivan of IBEW at a City of Long Beach conference unveiling its new EV garbage trucks in Long Beach, Calif. (Stella Kalinina for Earthjustice)

From the Experts May 27, 2026

In Long Beach, Trash Trucks Will Pick Up Garbage Without Polluting Our Air

The city’s first all-electric garbage trucks have hit the streets

Drinking water is one of the most common routes of exposure to PFAS. PFAS have polluted the tap water of at least 16 million people in 33 states and Puerto Rico, as well as groundwater in at least 38 states.
(Yipeng Ge / Getty Images)

Update May 22, 2026

EPA Backtracks on First-Ever Limits on Forever Chemicals

The EPA's plans would jeopardize the drinking water of up to 105 million people across the U.S.

Organizers deliver more than 250,000 petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing the rollback of federal greenhouse gas regulations. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice)

feature May 21, 2026

Counter/Act Progress Report: Spring 2026

Case by case, Earthjustice is working toward a sea change that can outlive any administration.

A breaching gray whale off the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. (Jan-Dirk Hansen / Shutterstock)

From the Experts May 20, 2026

Examining the Impacts of U.S. Gas Exports Through Mexico’s Gulf of California

A bad deal for marine mammals, and a worse deal for the Earth’s climate.

Protestors stand on shore after the Pipe Out Paddle Up Flotilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City, Michigan, in 2022. Protestors paddled out in the water in canoes and kayaks holding signs to protest the pipeline. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)

Article May 19, 2026

An Oil Pipeline is Threatening the Great Lakes

The Line 5 pipeline has already leaked over 1 million gallons of oil to date and threatens the Great Lakes. Time is running out to stop one company’s dangerous plans…

Almost everyone in the U.S. has traces of PFAS in their body because the chemicals have contaminated the air, soil, and water — including the drinking water for approximately 200 million people nationwide. (Cavan Images)

From the Experts May 18, 2026

The EPA Says It’s Tough on Forever Chemicals, So Why Is Zeldin Weakening PFAS Rules?

PFAS rollbacks raise serious questions about whose side the agency is on.

Tony Lonergan and Wendy Wales, foreground, speak at a rally outside the High Court of Australia in Canberra during their legal effort to protect their community from the expansion of the Mount Pleasant coal mine. (Zoe Lonergan)

From the Experts May 14, 2026

Australia’s Highest Court Hears Its First Climate Case

A local community’s legal challenge to an open cut coal mine could shape the country’s future approach to the climate harm caused by its fossil fuels.

A warehouse that is the site for a planned ICE detention center near Hagerstown, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

Article May 13, 2026

How ICE Is Breaking Laws as It Rushes to Jail Immigrants in Former Mega-Warehouses

The facilities and their plumbing were never built for so many people. Nearby water systems are at risk – and Earthjustice is fighting back.

Rev. Robert Tipton Jr., the branch president of the DeSoto County NAACP, is opposed to the methane gas turbines operating in his Southaven, Mississippi community to power a nearby xAI data center in Memphis, Tennessee. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)