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Louie Wagner Jr. casts for ooligan on the Unuk River, as his family has for generations. (Sonia Luokkala / SEITC)
Press Release November 6, 2025

Southeast Alaska Tribes Deliver 30,000 Letters to BC Officials on Mining

Skeena’s Eskay Creek Mine among BC projects risking downstream waters and fish

The Rosebud coal mine in Colstrip, Montana, north of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. (EcoFlight)
Press Release November 6, 2025

Conservation Groups File Appeal to Overturn Flawed Rosebud Coal Mine Water Pollution Permit

Groups claim DEQ is treating the surrounding region as a sacrifice zone

document November 6, 2025

Rosebud CWA Appeal

Conservation groups and ranchers appealed a District Court ruling that upheld a flawed water pollution permit for the Rosebud coal mine’s AM5 expansion.

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feature November 3, 2025

Biodiversity Program Report

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.

Kuskokwim River, in southwest Alaska. The Donlin mine's massive industrial operation will destroy thousands of acres of wetlands and streams and cause permanently elevated levels of dangerous metals in local water.
(Peter Griffith / NASA)
Press Release October 29, 2025

Fast Tracking of Permitting for the Donlin Gold Mine Further Erodes Trust Among Yukon-Kuskokwim Tribes

A federal permitting council added the Alaska gold mine to its list of projects for expedited permitting

Debris and smoke fills the sky during the demolition of the Board of Light and Power's coal-burning J.B. Sims Generating Station in Grand Haven, Michigan. (Cory Morse / The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
From the Experts October 27, 2025

The Cost of Trump’s Coal Fixation

It is time to end the era of coal once and for all.

Caribou on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (Florian Schulz / protectthearctic.org)
Press Release October 23, 2025

Trump Administration Opens the Entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas Leasing

At the expense of communities and our climate, this massive public lands attack auctions off treasured lands in the nation’s largest wildlife refuge to benefit fossil fuel companies

A view of Pago Pago Harbor on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. (Leamus / Getty Images)
From the Experts October 10, 2025

How Deep Sea Mining Endangers American Samoa

The ocean is inseparably intertwined with American Samoa culture and identity. Now deep sea mining threatens it all.

A gentle mist settles on Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern Minnesota. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
feature October 6, 2025

A mining threat returns to the nation’s most visited wilderness

A sulfide-ore copper mine could bring irreversible pollution to the rivers and streams flowing into the Boundary Waters.

Joseph Goldstein paddles in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Northeastern Minnesota. Goldstein has been working to protect the Boundary Waters since he was 13 and diagnosed with Leukemia. (Photo courtesy Joseph Goldstein)
Article October 3, 2025

The Fight to Save a Beloved Midwest Wilderness

Joseph Goldstein found healing and purpose in the Boundary Waters. Now, the Trump administration says it wants to open the wilderness area’s watershed up to mining.

Kids take a break in a swimming pool in the shadow of the James H. Miller, Jr., coal-fired power plant in Adamsville, Ala. The Trump administration has exempted the plant from pollution limits set in the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Press Release September 29, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Coal Industry Giveaways

Americans will foot the bill for dirty fossil fuel power

Charlene Alden stands outside her home in Lame Deer, Montana on July 2, 2025. Alden is the Environmental Protection Director for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe. (Louise Johns for Earthjustice)
Article September 25, 2025

A Tribe Takes on Coal

The Northern Cheyenne have a long history of defending their land. Now, they’re showing how clean energy progress can still be made.

document September 25, 2025

Groups Oppose USGS Methodology and Minerals

Several nongovernmental organizations submitted comments opposing the United States Geological Survey’s methodology for including specific minerals in the draft List of Critical Minerals.

document September 25, 2025

Metallurgical Coal Comment Letter

Groups send letter opposing the inclusion of metallurgical coal in the United States Geological Survey’s Critical Minerals List.

The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature September 23, 2025

The Intermountain West: Regional Spotlight

Our teams in Bozeman, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, have spent decades fighting to defend the web of life, to protect people’s health, and to advance a just transition to clean energy. We’re pleased to share highlights of our progress, and a glimpse at what’s next.

A view of the northwest section of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona. (U.S. Department of the Interior)
Press Release September 18, 2025

Groups Denounce Gosar Bills to Nullify Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National and Ironwood Forest National Monuments

Bills would undermine critical land protections and the leadership of local Tribes

Zack Porter, Executive Director of Standing Trees, in a mature eastern hardwood forest in Telephone Gap, Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont. The largest roadless areas in Vermont are found in the Green Mountain National Forest. (Kurt Budliger for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 27, 2025

Trump Administration Attempt to Repeal Roadless Rule Met With Widespread Opposition

Agriculture Department initiates process targeting bedrock conservation policy that protects 45 million acres of national forests

A helicopter extinguishing a wildfire on a mountain at night. (Konstantin Sutyagin / Getty Images)
feature August 14, 2025

Five Trump Policies Making Extreme Weather More Dangerous

The Trump administration’s energy and environmental policies are accelerating climate change — and a warming planet means more extreme weather.