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In the News: The Denver Post February 9, 2025

What impact will Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” have on Colorado, public lands?

Mike Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “It’s about padding the profits for Trump’s donors in the oil and gas industry. What they’re going to be doing is stockpiling federal oil and gas leases and getting Trump to do things that are going to increase demand for their product.”

In the News: Jacobin February 8, 2025

Chemical Companies Want Trump’s EPA to Keep Their Secrets

Adam Kron, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “This is information that the public deserves to know — what the facilities are that are near them, what types of chemicals they deal with.”

An oil refinery looms over Port Arthur, TX. People of color are nearly twice as likely as white Americans to live within a fenceline zone of an industrial facility.
(Eric Kayne for Earthjustice)
Press Release February 7, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Closure of EPA Environmental Justice and Civil Rights Office

“Notwithstanding the overt cruelty of this decision, no one wants an unhealthier and more polluted America, coopted by industry.”

In the News: Living on Earth February 7, 2025

Trump Dumps Environmental Justice

Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation for Healthy Communities at Earthjustice, discusses the federal government’s role in protecting people from environmental discrimination.

Smokestacks loom up from a hazy sky, tinged with orange, at sunset.
(Shutterstock)
Press Release February 6, 2025

Earthjustice Blasts Blatant Partisan Attack on Critical DOJ Environmental Division

“Without offices like ENRD, our environmental laws are nothing more than words on paper.”

Lee Zeldin (Matt Rourke / AP). Russell Vought. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc., via Getty Images) Chris Wright (Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0). Doug Burgum (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images).
feature February 6, 2025

The Presidential Transition & The Environment

Learn about key nominees in the Trump administration’s second term, and the powers they will have.

In the News: Texas Tribune February 6, 2025

Why oil and gas companies want state oversight for carbon dioxide injection

“Texas through the RRC hasn’t proven itself a reliable manager as far as injection wells go in the past and adding the administration of the Class VI program to its plate raises alarm bells for the people and drinking water in Texas.”

A grizzly in a Wyoming field. (Scott Suriano / Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory February 5, 2025

Judge Upholds Ruling Limiting Wolf Trapping, Snaring in Idaho

Upon reconsideration, judge rejects Idaho’s rare request to reverse decision

document February 5, 2025

Idaho Wolf Trapping Decision

Federal Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale upheld a decision to prohibit Idaho’s authorization of recreational wolf trapping and snaring in grizzly bear habitat during the grizzly bear non-denning season.

Oil and gas fields in California's Central Valley.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release February 5, 2025

Lawsuit Challenges Federal Approvals for New Oil, Gas Drilling on California Public Lands

Coalition condemns Bureau of Land Management’s decision to continue granting new oil and gas wells in the heavily-polluted San Joaquin Valley

From the Experts: Victory February 4, 2025

D.C. Court Greenlights Climate Greenwashing Case

The Superior Court for the District of Columbia denied Tyson Food, Inc.’s efforts to avoid liability and allowed the case to move forward.

In the News: Politico February 4, 2025

PSC approves storm charges for TECO, Duke customers

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office: “Simply put, this is unaffordable to many hard-working Floridians.”

document February 4, 2025

BLM Permit Challenge: CA Central Valley

This case challenges the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s decision to continue approving drilling permits for new oil and gas wells on public land in the San Joaquin Valley, California, without accounting for the cumulative impacts of BLM’s expansion of oil and gas drilling, and without providing for meaningful input from the communities most impacted by its permitting decisions.

Navajo community leader Daniel Tso speaks out against fracking at a meeting that was required under the National Environmental Policy Act. The law gives communities a chance to speak out against projects that will impact them.
(Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
Press Release February 4, 2025

North Dakota Federal Judge Upends Key Environmental Regulations

Court sends strong reminder that Presidential Executive Orders must follow the law

People walk through the hallways at Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Virginia, on May 9, 2024. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
From the Experts February 4, 2025

New Report Examines Electricity Contracts for Data Centers and other Mega-load or Large-load Facilities

How electricity tariffs can protect households and small businesses from data centers and crypto mines’ enormous energy demands

In the News: Pensacola News Journal February 3, 2025

One of Biden’s last acts was an offshore drilling ban. Trump’s first fight is to undo it.

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program: “Biden used the power to take areas off the table that are not being used and are not really important for oil and gas leasing. He decided we do not really need to lease in these areas for national security or oil independence, and utilizing them carries a great risk…

document February 3, 2025

Tyson Greenwashing Case: Order Denying Motion to Dismiss

Judge Julie H. Becker denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss.

document February 3, 2025

ND Decision: NEPA Phase II Regulations

A federal judge in North Dakota vacated the Council on Environmental Quality’s regulations that implement the National Environmental Policy Act. Twenty-one Republican attorneys general, led by Iowa and North Dakota, brought the case to invalidate these key rules, which govern environmental review of federally funded or permitted projects.