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Press Release: Victory April 16, 2026

Court Halts Construction of Hagerstown Migrant Detention Center

Federal agencies must halt construction or renovation of warehouse for pendency of litigation

Trucks drive along Interstate 80 in Berkeley, Calif. (Justin Sullivan)
Press Release April 16, 2026

Health, Environmental Groups Ask EPA to Reconsider Flawed, Unlawful Decision to Repeal the Endangerment Finding

Petition identifies multiple, serious problems with new information and analysis in final rule

Windy, dusty day in Mojave National Preserve, California. (Christian Collins / CC BY-SA 2.0)
Press Release April 15, 2026

Lawsuit Challenges Department of Interior’s Rubberstamping of Mining in California’s Mojave National Preserve

The National Parks Conservation Association calls for halt to operations damaging park landscape at the formerly decommissioned Colosseum Mine

The TransAlta coal plant in Centralia, WA, is the largest source of mercury and global warming pollutants in the state.
(Earthjustice Photo)
Press Release April 14, 2026

Public Interest Groups Challenge Trump Administration’s Renewal of an Order to Keep Washington’s Last Coal Plant Operating

The Department of Energy is claiming false emergencies to keep open dirty, inefficient coal plants across the country including a coal plant slated for shutdown in Centralia, Washington

Deadly fine particulate matter pollution, also known as soot, comes from tailpipes, smokestacks and industrial power plants. Breathing soot can cause premature death, heart disease, and lung damage. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release April 14, 2026

Coalition Sues Trump EPA for Failure to Implement Life-Saving National Soot Standard

EPA fails to implement its own strengthened air quality standard and missed deadline for identifying areas with soot pollution levels higher than the new acceptable limit

The now-closed Waukegan Generating Station, on the shore of Lake Michigan in Waukegan, Illinois. The coal fired power plant still has sizable coal ash ponds threatening the environment. (Jamie Kelter Davis for Earthjustice)
Press Release April 9, 2026

EPA Proposes to Gut Federal Coal Ash Cleanup Requirements and Health Protections

Earthjustice will sue to stop the EPA from rewriting the rules for coal power companies’ toxic sludge

Cars and trucks move along the Cross Bronx Expressway, a notorious stretch of highway in New York City that is often choked with traffic and contributes to pollution and poor air quality. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Press Release April 8, 2026

Environmental Groups Sue EPA For Illegal Repeal of Climate Protections

Environmental groups and Alaskan tribes challenge the Trump EPA’s unlawful repeal of the endangerment finding and elimination of vehicle emissions standards

Press Release April 2, 2026

EPA Sets Long-Needed Updated Air Toxics Standards for Chemical Manufacturers, but Punts on Ethylene Oxide Emissions Limits

EPA’s rulemaking allows 33 highly toxic sources to continue emitting carcinogenic ethylene oxide without limits

Press Release April 2, 2026

EPA Busca Atribuirse el Mérito por Lista de Vigilancia de Contaminantes Mientras Desmantela Protecciones Existentes

Mientras afirma promover la salud, la EPA está eliminando las protecciones contra sustancias químicas tóxicas presentes en el aire, los alimentos y el agua

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)
Press Release April 2, 2026

Zeldin’s EPA Seeks Credit for Contaminant Watchlist While Rolling Back Existing Protections

While claiming to promote health, the EPA is removing protections from toxic chemicals in air, food, and water

Signal Hill, an affluent suburb of Long Beach, features dozens of active oil wells and derricks around the town many in commercial parking lots and residential areas only feet from homes.  (Tara Pixley for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory March 31, 2026

California Oil and Gas Health Protection Law Survives First-Round Trump Administration Attack

Buffer zones between drilling sites, communities to remain in effect during legal battle

The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. (Eric Ian for Earthjustice)
Press Release March 31, 2026

Groups Challenge Trump Admin’s Rushed Approval of Cabinet Mountains Mining Project

Organizations fear harm to waters, wilderness area, and ESA-protected species

A spreader applies sewage sludge to a farm field in Wellston, Okla. (Joshua A. Bickel / AP)
Press Release March 31, 2026

Conservation and Law Groups Support Challenge of EPA’s Failure to Regulate PFAS in Sewage Sludge Used as Fertilizer

EPA fails to protect farmers, truck drivers, and families from the harm of toxic sludge

A Rice’s whale — one of the world’s rarest whales — observed in the western Gulf of Mexico in 2024. The species is the only large whale species that lives year-round in North American waters. (Paul Nagelkirk / NOAA Fisheries - NMFS ESA/MMPA Permit #21938)
Press Release March 31, 2026

‘Extinction Committee’ Allows Oil Drillers to Ignore Species Protections in Gulf of Mexico

Panel of appointees aligns with “national security” rationale from Secretary of Defense

The Cheswick Generating Station in 2010. Prior to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, oil-burning and coal-burning power plants largely avoided restrictions on emissions of hazardous air pollution. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release March 30, 2026

Coalition Sues Trump EPA Over Illegal Repeal of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

Lawsuit challenges rollback that allows more mercury, lead, and other toxic pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants

The critically endangered Florida panther is just one of the species
that depends on the Everglades. (David Shindle for the Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission)
Press Release: Victory March 27, 2026

Court Victory for Florida Wetlands Protection

Federal government, not state, will remain in charge of wetlands permitting under the Clean Water Act