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Earthjustice y nuestros socios trabajan para proteger la salud infantil. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
From the Experts September 16, 2025

Algunos Grupos de la Industria Química Piden Licencia para Contaminar. Pero Así Es Como Protegemos a los Niños.

En todo Estados Unidos, las señales de advertencia de peligro químico nunca parecen detenerse.

Press Release September 16, 2025

Advocates Take Legal Action Over Trump Administration’s Backtracking on Slaughterhouse Water Pollution

10 Organizations Petition Federal Court Over EPA’s Abandonment of Rules to Reduce Pollution from Meat Processing Industry

Lauren Sanchez (center) will be the new chair of the California Air Resources Board.
Press Release September 15, 2025

California Announces New Chair of the California Air Resources Board

With Lauren Sanchez at the helm, the agency must retake the reins and lead on new zero-emissions regulations once again

The Suncor refinery in North Denver. (Martin do Nascimento / Earthjustice)
Press Release September 15, 2025

Colorado Reaches Backroom Deal with Suncor to Avoid Key Water Permit Provisions

Environmental justice and conservation groups cut out of settlement process despite intervention

document September 15, 2025

EPA Petition for Review: MMP Sept 2025

Groups filed their petition with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency on August 28 announced that it would throw out rules planned by the Biden administration that would have, for the first time, imposed limits on phosphorus pollution from 126 meat industry plants across the U.S., eliminating at least eight million pounds of this pollutant per year, plus nine million pounds of nitrogen and other pollutants, including fecal bacteria and grease.

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 September 12, 2025

EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections

The move continues to expose communities across the country to toxic forever chemicals in tap water

document September 11, 2025

Columbia Basin: Motion to Set Schedule

Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups today filed this motion to set a court schedule along with a motion requesting the U.S. District Court in Oregon end a multi-year pause on the groups’ long-running litigation to protect endangered Columbia Basin wild salmon and steelhead from federal dams that kill and harm them.

Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in Little Redfish Lake Creek, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho. Salmon will have greater access to spawning grounds in Idaho if the lower Snake River dams are removed.
(Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release September 11, 2025

Groups Return to Court to Protect Imperiled Columbia Basin Salmon

The Trump Administration’s unilateral withdrawal from a historic agreement forces plaintiffs back to court to protect salmon and steelhead from lethal dams

document September 11, 2025

Columbia Basin: Court request to lift litigation pause to protect wild salmon and steelhead

Conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups represented by Earthjustice today filed a motion requesting the U.S. District Court in Oregon end a multi-year pause on the groups’ long-running litigation to protect endangered Columbia Basin wild salmon and steelhead from federal dams that kill and harm them.

document September 11, 2025

Motion: EPA Requests to Vacate Parts of PFAS Rule

On Sept. 11, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency requested to vacate parts of their rule regulating maximum contaminant levels of some PFAS in drinking water.

Earthjustice y nuestros socios trabajan para proteger la salud infantil. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
Press Release September 9, 2025

Informe de la Comisión MAHA de Trump Expone a Niños a Sustancias Tóxicas

A pesar de que afirma promover la salud, la administración Trump elimina protecciones contra sustancias químicas tóxicas en alimentos y agua

Earthjustice and our partners are working to protect children's health. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
Press Release September 9, 2025

Trump’s MAHA Commission Report Offers No Solutions, Leaves Kids Exposed to Toxics

While claiming to promote health, the Trump administration removes protections from toxic chemicals in food and water

Tania Galloni (Saul Martinez for Earthjustice). Steve Mashuda (Jovelle Tamayo for Earthjustice). Hana Vizcarra (Matt Roth for Earthjustice). David Henkin (Elyse Butler for Earthjustice).
feature September 8, 2025

The Earthjustice Lawyers Taking on the Trump Administration

Meet some of the lawyers behind our cases, and learn how they’re defending our land, air, and water against the Trump administration’s unprecedented threats.

Press Release September 8, 2025

Challenge to the Latest Illegal Extension of J.H. Campbell Coal Plant

The Trump Administration forces the aging, dirty coal power plant to continue burning coal even as the electricity is not needed

document September 8, 2025

Request for Rehearing and Stay of DOE Order No. 202-25-7

Request for rehearing filed by Earthjustice with the Department of Energy on September 8, 2025 to oppose the second sham emergency order to compel the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant to keep operating past its retirement date.

Māui dolphins photographed in New Zealand during a 2010 survey. (New Zealand Department of Conservation)
From the Experts September 5, 2025

Court Victory for Earth’s Rarest Marine Dolphin

With fewer than 50 Māui dolphins remaining, they are the rarest marine dolphin on Earth. Their survival is primarily threatened by harmful fishing practices that net the dolphins.

Sockeye salmon make their way back up a river in the Pacific Northwest to spawn.(Shutterstock)
From the Experts September 4, 2025

Wins and Highlights from the Washington 2025 Legislative Session

Let’s celebrate this year’s environmental victories, plan to continue our work in the Columbia Basin — and prepare for next year!

The R.S. Nelson coal fired-power plant in 2004, in Westlake, La. (Jamie Gates / AP Photo / American Press)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Louisiana: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at four coal-fired power plant sites in Louisiana.