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Jonathan Smith, attorney in Earthjustice’s Community Partnerships Program, provides community-led movements with legal and advocacy resources to challenge polluters and ensure access to environmental benefits. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
page January 1, 2026

Legacy Giving: Gifts that Pay You Income

Learn how you can make a meaningful gift to Earthjustice, turn assets into an income stream, and receive tax benefits today

document December 31, 2025

Life Income Giving: Defend the Environment with a QCD-Funded CGA

When you create a charitable gift annuity (CGA) with Earthjustice, you help build a more secure future for the planet, its people, and yourself. Some donors over the age of 70½ may use a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) from their IRA to fund a CGA, receiving lifetime payments in return.

Press Release December 30, 2025

Trump Administration’s Sham Coal Plant Order Will Cost Ratepayers, Harm Colorado Communities

Emergency order will force Craig Unit 1 to remain available beyond December retirement date

document December 30, 2025

The Economic Cost of a DOE Mandate for the Craig Unit 1 Coal-Burning Generator to Continue Operating

This report analyzes the cost of a U.S. Department of Energy mandate that Unit 1 at the Craig coal-burning power plant in Colorado remain available and operate beyond its December 31, 2025, retirement date.

The Trump administration illegally ordered this coal-fired power plant in Washington State to stay open past retirement in December 2025. This is part of a broader policy to prop up coal that is driving up electricity costs. (Steven Baltakatei Sandoval / CC BY-SA 4.0)
Article December 24, 2025

Trump’s Holiday Gift to You: A Lump of Coal and a Higher Energy Bill

Electricity rates are set to skyrocket, fueled by the Trump administration’s war on cheaper clean energy and push for expensive fossil fuels.

Power plants are the biggest sources of water pollution in the country. Power plant water discharges are filled with toxic pollution such as mercury, arsenic, lead, and selenium.
(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Photo)
Press Release December 24, 2025

Trump Administration’s EPA Dumps Wastewater Treatment Standards for Coal-fired Power Plants

EPA issues rule to allow ongoing release of toxic chemicals into sources of drinking water for more than 30 million Americans

The NIPSCO R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield, Indiana, Sunday, August 12, 2018. (Alex Garcia for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 23, 2025

Trump’s DOE Issues Additional Orders to Illegally Force Indiana Coal Plants to Keep Burning Coal

The Trump administration delivers coal for the holidays and higher electricity bills

document December 22, 2025

Court Filing: Coke Ovens Exemption

Community, health, and environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s exemptions that allow coke ovens to keep spewing harmful pollutants.

Press Release December 22, 2025

Environmental and Community Groups Sue to Stop Trump Exemptions from Air Pollution Rules for Steel Industry Coke Ovens

Exemptions for toxic coke oven facilities leave communities vulnerable to harmful air pollutants

A bald eagle lands in the snow at the edge of the Chilkat River, near Haines, Alaska. In this area is the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, where thousands of bald eagles gather to feast on the last runs of coho and chum salmon — a globally unique phenomenon. (Sergei Uryadnikov / Getty Images)
Press Release December 22, 2025

Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Oppose Trump Administration Effort to Roll Back Protections for Imperiled Species

Trump agencies proposed weakening Endangered Species Act rules

West Olive, Michigan, The J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Michigan. Consumers Energy had planned to retire the plant on May 31, 2025, but President Trump ordered it to keep operating. (Jim West / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Press Release December 22, 2025

DOE’s Illegal Extension of Coal Plant Challenged in Court for the First Time

Public advocacy groups ask the court to end the Trump administration’s sham emergency orders

document December 19, 2025

Appellate brief on DOE’s unlawful orders for the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant

Public advocacy groups, led by the Sierra Club and Earthjustice, filed an appellate brief with the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to ask the court to set aside the Department of Energy’s unlawful orders for the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in Michigan.

Polar bears near the Beaufort Sea on Alaska's North Slope. (Stephanie Powell / Getty Images)
Press Release December 19, 2025

Groups Issue Notice of Intent to Sue Federal Agencies Over Expected Harm to Polar Bears from Arctic Oil and Gas Development

Federal agencies failed to prevent harm to threatened polar bears when they opened the entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing

Endangered beluga whale, photographed during a hexacopter photogrammetry study of the Cook Inlet population. (Paul Wade / NOAA Fisheries)
Press Release December 19, 2025

Trump Administration Reaffirms Cook Inlet Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale Based on Environmental Study Completed Without Public Input

Federal regulators are allowing the challenged lease sale to move forward without any additional measures to protect endangered beluga whales

The United States Postal Service Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, shown in this concept image, can be built with either a gasoline or electric drivetrain. (USPS)
Article December 19, 2025

Electric Postal Service Vehicles Deliver Holiday Cheer and Clean Air

EVs are now operating from 65 post offices across the U.S., followed by years of public pressure and Earthjustice litigation.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a press announcement to unveil the path to unpausing congestion pricing in New York City on November 14, 2024. (Lev Radin / Sipa via AP)
Press Release December 19, 2025

New York Becomes the Latest State to Eliminate 100-Foot Gas Line Rule After Years of Advocacy

Ending the unfair policy will save New Yorkers nearly $600 million a year on costly gas pipelines

In the News: The Guardian December 19, 2025

Trump’s EPA wants to weaken formaldehyde protections – this is what it could mean

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “When you have chemicals that are this ubiquitous and this toxic, they really call out for strong regulations. You really need the government to do its job and provide protections.”

document December 19, 2025

FOIA: State Designation Recommendations to EPA under NAAQS Record #5 of 5

State recommendations to EPA under the 2024 NAAQS, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Sierra Club.