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The Bay Mills Indian Community, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi represented by Earthjustice filed their opening brief alongside the Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) and Michigan Climate Action Network (MiCAN) in the Michigan Supreme Court challenging Enbridge Energy’s efforts to build an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac.

“The Port cannot rely on a decade-old permit for a project that no longer exists,” argues Bridgett McCoy, Earthjustice attorney representing the groups

Karankawa Tribe of Texas, Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, and Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association urge the U.S. Corps of Engineers to revoke the Clean Water Act permit; undertake supplemental reviews; and/or deny any further extension of the permit and require the Port of Corpus Christi Authority to submit a new permit application for any future proposed terminal at the site. They also request that they be added to the list of “interested parties.”

Bureau of Land Management issues an environmental study to authorize ConocoPhillips’ winter drilling and seismic projects in Teshekpuk Lake and Colville River Special Areas

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa submitted a post-hearing brief to the administrative law judge overseeing the contested case challenge to Wisconsin’s approval for Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 reroute.

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

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.

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

Earthjustice raises concerns with Senate hearing on National Historic Preservation Act consultation provisions that help Tribes protect cultural and historic resources

In a series of recent moves, the administration is opening most of the vast and precious Arctic ecosystem to drilling.

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

Amicus brief asks SCOTUS to keep the Line 5 shutdown suit in state court

Ten Tribal Nations located in Michigan filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Enbridge’s “underhanded procedural tactics” in a case pitting the State of Michigan against the Canadian oil pipeline company.

Following the Trump administration’s abrupt and unilateral withdrawal from a historic agreement to restore the Columbia basin, plaintiffs return to court to prevent salmon and steelhead extinction

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

In mid-July 2024, a resident discovered a shell deposit in an eroded bank at Donnel Point, located on La Quinta Channel. This property is owned by the Port of Corpus Christi and may be slated for development. Immediate steps must be taken to protect these cultural resources and preserve this place, which may be the last intact Indigenous settlement on the north shore of Corpus Christi Bay.

A local scientist and historian alerted the state to what they found at the site along the Corpus Christi Gulf Coast

Wild fish populations in the Columbia Basin are in serious trouble, with key stocks teetering on the brink of extinction.