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document October 15, 2025

Comment Letter RE: Air Products Blue Energy LLC Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit Application No. MVN – 2011 – 03218 – EDM

Comment letter to Army Corps of Engineers for Air Products’ Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit on behalf of Lake Maurepas Preservation Society, RISE St. James, Concerned Citizens of St. John, Inc., Healthy Gulf, Earthworks, and Sierra Club

Manifestantes sostienen carteles mientras protestan contra la construcción de un centro de detención de inmigrantes en los Everglades, cerca de Ochopee, Florida, el 28 de junio de 2025. Debido a que se están utilizando fondos de FEMA para el centro de detención de Everglades, la ley exige que se realice una evaluación ambiental federal para proteger la fauna silvestre en peligro de extinción. (Giorgio Viera / AFP vía Getty Images)
Press Release October 15, 2025

Amigos de los Everglades Presenta Demanda para Obtener Registros Públicos Respecto al Centro de Detención de Everglades

Los contribuyentes tienen el derecho legal de ver las inversiones que se hacen con su dinero

Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette and Earthjustice attorney Alexis Andiman collect water samples in the Cape Fear River near the Smithfield slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina, October 2023. We’ve successfully pushed the EPA to propose rules that, if implemented, would prevent nearly 100 million pounds of slaughterhouse pollution from reaching U.S. waters each year. (Justin Cook for Earthjustice)
feature October 15, 2025

Farming For Our Future

Through litigation, legislative and administrative advocacy, and communications, Earthjustice’s Sustainable Food and Farming team advances the transition to a cleaner, safer, and more climate-friendly food system.

document October 14, 2025

State of Oregon Proposed Order

State of Oregon proposed order seeking emergency measures to protect endangered salmon and steelhead from harms caused by lower Snake and Columbia River dam operations.

document October 14, 2025

Columbia-Snake Motion for Preliminary Injunction

Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups represented by Earthjustice filed a preliminary injunction request with a federal court in Oregon seeking emergency measures to protect endangered salmon and steelhead from harms caused by lower Snake and Columbia River dam operations. The State of Oregon filed a similar request at the same time.

A wild chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). (Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release October 14, 2025

Plaintiffs Seek Emergency Actions to Protect Imperiled Columbia Basin Salmon

Following the Trump administration’s abrupt and unilateral withdrawal from a historic agreement to restore the Columbia basin, plaintiffs return to court to prevent salmon and steelhead extinction

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks onstage during the NYT Climate Forward 2025 at The Times Center on Sept. 24, 2025, in New York City.  (Yana Paskova / Getty Images for NYT)
Press Release: Victory October 14, 2025

In a Win for Clean Air and Common Sense, Governor Newsom Vetoes SB 34

Legislation would have tied Southern California air regulators’ hands and made it more difficult to shape clean air policies in the nation’s smog capital

The migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Everglades on July 4, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)
Press Release October 14, 2025

Friends of the Everglades Files Suit to Get Public Records on Everglades Detention Center

Taxpayers have a legal right to see where their money is spent

document October 14, 2025

Public Records Complaint: Everglades Detention Center

Friends of the Everglades filed suit against the Florida Division of Emergency Management because the agency is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on a mass immigration detention center in the Everglades without disclosing financial arrangements with the federal government. The failure to disclose those records violates Florida’s Government-in-the-Sunshine Act, which requires agencies to make official records available to the public.

Press Release October 14, 2025

Following NYISO Short-Term Assessment of Reliability Report Governor Hochul Must Course-Correct by Building a Renewable Grid for the Future

Governor Hochul must accelerate transmission and battery storage to save New Yorkers money, not prop up expensive, polluting gas plants

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks onstage during the NYT Climate Forward 2025 at The Times Center on Sept. 24, 2025, in New York City.  (Yana Paskova / Getty Images for NYT)
Press Release: Victory October 11, 2025

California Passes Law Lowering Energy Bills and Protecting Californians from Utility Misbehavior

The California Ratepayer Protection Act (AB 1167) prevents utilities from forcing customers to pay for utility lobbying and advertising costs

A view of Pago Pago Harbor on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. (Leamus / Getty Images)
From the Experts October 10, 2025

How Deep Sea Mining Endangers American Samoa

The ocean is inseparably intertwined with American Samoa culture and identity. Now deep sea mining threatens it all.

The Mitchell Power Plant, a coal-fired power station, along the Ohio River in Moundsville, West Virginia. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
From the Experts October 10, 2025

Trump Administration Theatens Wastewater Treatment Standards for Coal-fired Power Plants

Coal-fired power plants discharge toxic chemicals into sources of drinking water for more than 30 million Americans.

document October 10, 2025

Earthjustice responds to NYISO’s draft 2025–2034 Comprehensive Reliability Plan

Earthjustice sent a letter on October 10, 2025 to New York Independent System Operator responding to its draft 2025–2034 Comprehensive Reliability Plan outlining several concerns and suggestions for changes.

Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park, May 19, 2020. (Jim Peaco / NPS)
feature October 9, 2025

Defending the Grizzly Bear

Science shows that true recovery of grizzly bears requires a unified population with connected ecosystems.

document October 8, 2025

Seattle Times Ad Oct. 8, 2025: Extinction is Forever

This full-page ad ran in the Seattle Times on Oct. 8, 2025 to help counter misinformation about the state of the Columbia Basin’s salmon and steelhead runs being spread by industry special interests. The truth is that Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead are in serious trouble, with key stocks teetering on the brink of extinction. For more information: https://earthjustice.org/feature/columbia-basin-salmon-peril

North Antelope Mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. (Ecoflight)
Press Release October 8, 2025

Senate Passes Congressional Review Act Resolution to Reopen Montana’s Powder River Basin to New Coal Leasing

Resolution will upend the public lands management system as we know it

document October 8, 2025

Report on the Discovery of an Indigenous Archeological Site at Donnel Point, La Quinta Channel, San Patricio County, Texas

In mid-July 2024, a resident discovered a shell deposit in an eroded bank at Donnel Point, located on La Quinta Channel. This property is owned by the Port of Corpus Christi and may be slated for development. Immediate steps must be taken to protect these cultural resources and preserve this place, which may be the last intact Indigenous settlement on the north shore of Corpus Christi Bay.