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Roundup products are seen for sale at a store in San Rafael, California. (Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images)
From the Experts January 16, 2026

The Supreme Court Case That Could Let Pesticide Companies Off the Hook — Even When Their Products Make People Sick

The Justices will soon decide whether families, workers, and communities still have a path to justice when toxic products make them sick.

In the News: Inside Climate News January 16, 2026

Will Trump’s Push to Drill on California Public Lands be More Successful This Time Around?

Michelle Ghafar, Attorney, California Regional Office: “They didn’t look at any of that new information or change of circumstances and analyze how any of that could change the impact that they identified.”

A Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whale — one of the world’s rarest whales — observed in the western Gulf of Mexico in 2024. The species is the only large whale species that lives year-round in North American waters. (Paul Nagelkirk / NOAA Fisheries - NMFS ESA/MMPA Permit #21938)
From the Experts January 16, 2026

As a kid, he came face to face with one of the rarest whales in the world — he just didn’t know it yet

A photo of the whale caught a researcher’s eye, sparking a scientific odyssey spanning 56 years. Today, amid a push to expand fossil fuel drilling in the Gulf, Rice’s whales face extinction.

A homeowner works on weatherizing their home. Home weatherization can significantly reduce energy cost and fuel use when cooling homes in the summer and heating them in the winter. (Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
Press Release January 15, 2026

DTE Energy Will Increase Job Training Programs and Advance Energy Efficiency in Michigan

Earthjustice and Sierra Club advocated before the Michigan PSC for equitable energy efficiency programs

In the News: New Orleans Public Radio January 15, 2026

Parents worried proposed CO2 pipeline could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on nearby school, neighborhood

Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, Staff Scientist, Fossil Fuels Program: “What this report shows is that the pipeline would put these kids and teachers in harm’s way. There would be a very large cloud of CO2 that would cover the area, the houses, the school very quickly — within like 10 minutes.”

Isocycloseram, a “forever chemical” insecticide that falls into the class of highly persistent PFAS, was approved for use on a host of food crops, including tomatoes, oranges, and more. (Colby Winfield / Unsplash)
Press Release January 15, 2026

Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA’s Latest Approval of ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide

Isocycloseram was approved for use on golf courses, lawns, and a host of food crops

document January 15, 2026

Motion for Investigation of the New Financial Arrangement of Meta Platforms, LLC, Associated with the Hyperion Data Center Project in Richland Parish, and Motion to Institute Prudence Review of Entergy Louisiana, LLC

Earthjustice, representing the Alliance for Affordable Energy in Louisiana and the Union of Concerned Scientists, filed a request to the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) to investigate Meta’s recently revealed financing scheme, which establishes an additional parent company for its data center developer and leaves Meta with only 20% stake in that holding company. Meta did not reveal its intentions through the LPSC regulatory proceedings to create a new parent company for Entergy’s gas plants and incorporated the new company on the same day the LPSC approved Entergy’s application.

In the News: Reuters January 14, 2026

Environmental law group seeks probe of Meta’s $27 billion Louisiana data center financing

Susan Stevens Miller, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “If Meta ends the lease after four years almost none of the costs of the generating station or the associated transmission will have been paid up by Meta at that point.”

In the News: Slate January 14, 2026

It’s Responsible for One of the Worst Oil Disasters Ever. It’s Counting On Trump to Let It Do It Again.

Sam Sankar, SVP of Programs, Earthjustice: “The first Trump administration saw oil companies as its “partners.” The second Trump administration treats them as its “customers.””

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)
Press Release January 14, 2026

Public Interest Groups Challenge Trump Administration Order to Keep Washington’s Last Coal Plant Operating

DOE’s order disrupts a long-planned shutdown of a coal plant in Centralia, Washington, designed to provide state residents with cleaner air and affordable, reliable, clean energy

document January 14, 2026

Challenge to DOE’s order to force Washington’s last coal plant to keep operating

On behalf of public interest groups, Earthjustice challenged the Department of Energy’s (DOE) illegal order forcing Washington’s last coal plant to operate past its planned retirement date. The groups’ request for rehearing was filed with DOE in response to the 90-day order issued Dec. 16, just two weeks before TransAlta’s last coal-burning unit was legally required to shut down on Dec. 31.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveils the path to unpausing congestion pricing in New York City at a press conference in Manhattan, New York, United States, on November 14, 2024. (Kyle Mazza / NurPhoto via AP)
Press Release January 14, 2026

New York Governor Hochul Delivers 2026 State of the State

As energy bills skyrocket, data centers must build their own renewables

(Patrick J. Endres / Getty Images)
Article January 14, 2026

Why We’re Fighting Trump on Multiple Fronts to Protect the Arctic

The administration wants to maximize oil and gas drilling in Arctic regions of the U.S. We’re in court to stop them.

Press Release January 14, 2026

Over 30 Organizations Urge USDA to Limit Federal Support for Manure Digesters

Hundreds of millions of dollars intended to cut energy costs have been funneled to costly manure digesters, benefitting industrial-scale livestock operations

Press Release January 14, 2026

Louisiana Regulators Asked to Investigate Shady Meta Financing Deal That Could Leave Households Paying for Tech Giant’s Electricity

Meta’s new financing deal for its massive $27 billion data center in Richland Parish, LA, could leave everyday Louisianans paying for three huge new gas plants to power the data center.

document January 13, 2026

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Amended and Supplemented Complaint

Updated complaint resumes litigation to protect the 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and gas leasing, adding new claims challenging Interior’s October 2025 decision to again open the Coastal Plain to leasing.

Caribou on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (Florian Schulz / protectthearctic.org)
Press Release January 13, 2026

Groups Challenge Arctic Refuge Leases and Drilling Plan

Updated complaint restarts paused litigation to protect the 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and gas leasing

In the News: Canary Media January 13, 2026

What a fracking-waste dispute says about Ohio’s energy double standard

James Yskamp, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “The law is very clear in our view that [the department] should be applying the rules in place at the time of permitting.”