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New York Governor Hochul and Legislature Finalize the SFY2025-26 Budget; Includes New Climate Funding and a Boost to the Environmental Protection Fund

Tribal plaintiffs are asking the court to vacate federal authorizations for the mine while federal agencies redo the flawed and illegal environmental study

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at eight power plant sites in North Dakota.

On May 1, 2025, Earthjustice attorneys joined the Law Day of Action, a series of nationwide demonstrations to protect our courts and protect our rights.

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “Ultimately, what matters here is we have a decision to intensify and extend harms to vulnerable communities who’ve been suffering for decades, and punting these harms down the road. But this is the place where Interior has to address the inequalities, because this is a decision about how often…

Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Peter Lehner, Managing Attorney, Sustainable Food & Farming Program: “The sad recognition is that if we don’t address agriculture, even if we are successful in decarbonizing the rest of the economy, we will almost certainly exceed any quasi-safe target level.”

Over the last decade, the boom in online shopping and e-commerce has made massive warehouses spring up in New York faster than you can make an online purchase.

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources from groups opposing cuts to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act funding in reconciliation bill.

Quotes from groups opposing forestry provisions in budget reconciliation bill.

Groups oppose the coal leasing provision in the HNRC budget reconciliation bill.

The House Natural Resources Committee’s budget reconciliation bill language includes an all-out attack on Alaska’s public lands, including maximum drilling, mining and logging

A summary of quotes reacting to attacks on public lands contained in the House Natural Resources reconciliation bill.

Letter to U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources by groups opposing mandated leasing for offshore oil and gas drilling in budget reconciliation.

Habitat destruction is the number one cause of extinction. This lawless proposal would eliminate the Endangered Species Act’s core protections against it.

Wind provides more than 10% of U.S. power today, making it the largest source of renewable energy

Christina Reichert, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “When you look at the language in the technical assistance process, it doesn’t include the things they failed to do at the programmatic level. There’s no baseline analysis. There’s no requirement to use the best available science. There’s no requirement for them to do an effects analysis.”

Ava Ibanez Amador, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “There should be a framework where the operators that are benefiting from resources in the Gulf of Mexico should be responsible for the entire life cycle of their profits, and that includes the decommissioning.”