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A Republican-run Congress attempted to repeal lead exposure protections, endangering millions of lives in the U.S. We fought back — and won.

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…

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.”

15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, we’re suing the Trump administration for attempting to reopen protected areas of the Gulf coastline for oil and gas drilling.

Tosh Sagar, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “These are basic statutory requirements that EPA has been flip-flopping on for a while, it’s causing real harms. It means that protections are not being put in place. It’s this court’s job to say what the law is, to clarify the rules of the road.”

La administración está recortando iniciativas destinadas a ayudar a comunidades racializadas y de bajos ingresos que enfrentan altas cargas de contaminación.

The administration is slashing initiatives meant to help communities of color and low-income communities facing high pollution burdens.

The Trump administration is reneging on the federal government’s funding promises, leading to lost compensation to workers, hiring freezes, and halted construction projects.

La administración Trump está incumpliendo las promesas de financiación del gobierno federal, lo que ha provocado pérdidas de compensaciones a los trabajadores, congelamientos de contrataciones y una pausa en proyectos de construcción.

Earthjustice’s plans during the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, and the actions we’re already taking to protect the health of frontline communities, wildlife, and our shared climate future.

Coal is an expensive, dirty, and dangerous energy source. We’re not going back to it.

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, alongside Tribal and conservation groups, filed a motion to join a lawsuit to defend the Biden administration’s 2024 decision ending new coal leasing on public lands in Wyoming and Eastern Montana’s Powder River Basin.

Executive order gives oil and gas companies a green light to drill in public waters that had been protected off almost every U.S. coast.

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

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…

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.

In the aftermath of the 2024 election, Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice, discussed the outcomes of the election and how they will affect Earthjustice’s litigation, advocacy, and political work.

Affording protections to critical caribou calving and migration areas in the Western Arctic will help safeguard irreplaceable Arctic ecosystems from fossil fuel development