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Tongass National Forest, Kuiu Island, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. The Roadless Rule protects about half of the Tongass, the crown jewel of the National Forest system and home to nearly one-third of all old-growth temperate rainforest remaining in the entire world. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
From the Experts March 13, 2026

Now Is the Time to Speak for the Tongass

A revision of the forest plan for the Tongass National Forest is now underway

 A fisherman holds his hand dsiplaying a clump of oil from the ruptured BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig on June 9 2010 in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico off of Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. (Benjamin Lowy / Getty Images)
From the Experts March 11, 2026

A New Era of Offshore Drilling Quietly Threatens the Health of Gulf Communities

BP’s proposed Kaskida project could become a sequel to Deepwater Horizon.

Sworls of Montipora aequituberculata, a core coral, attract fish at Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, about 1,300 miles southwest of Honolulu. (Jim E. Maragos / USFWS)
Article March 9, 2026

3 Wins for the Environment Against the Trump Administration

The Trump administration’s onslaught on the environment is intense, but Earthjustice is using the power of the law to fight back.

The Canyon Creek watershed provides spawning and rearing habitat for all five species of Pacific salmon.
(Vasik Olga / Shutterstock)
Update February 27, 2026

Court Orders Emergency Actions to Protect Imperiled Salmon

The court’s decision orders federal agencies to implement important, immediate steps to ensure Northwest salmon don’t go extinct.

A Cook Inlet beluga calf swims with three larger beluga whales. (Paul Wade / NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center)
Press Release February 26, 2026

Traditional Tribal Nation, Community and Environmental Groups Notify Interior Department of Intent to Challenge Upcoming Offshore Oil-and-Gas Sale in Cook Inlet, Alaska

Trump administration plans to hold sale in violation of Endangered Species Act, putting extremely vulnerable Cook Inlet beluga whales at risk

Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in Little Redfish Lake Creek, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho. Salmon will have greater access to spawning grounds in Idaho if the lower Snake River dams are removed.
(Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release: Victory February 25, 2026

Court Orders Emergency Actions to Protect Imperiled Columbia Basin Salmon

Federal defendants ordered to change Columbia Basin hydropower operations to protect endangered salmon and steelhead

document February 25, 2026

Columbia-Snake: Preliminary Injunction Request Court Order and Opinion

A federal court in Oregon ordered federal agencies to change operations of the Columbia Basin hydropower system in critical ways to help improve salmon survival.

View of Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake. (Nick Pedersen / Getty Images)
Press Release February 25, 2026

Groups Seek to Halt Recently-Passed Utah Laws from Derailing Great Salt Lake Lawsuit

Motion filed for temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction over unconstitutional application of H.B. 392 and S.J.R 5

document February 25, 2026

Motion for TRO and PI: Great Salt Lake

Conservation and community groups filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prevent the transfer of a landmark public trust suit to protect the Great Salt Lake to a new three judge panel.

document February 17, 2026

Alaska Letter Opposing Proposed Offshore Drilling Plan

Groups and individuals from across Alaska to express alarm and strong opposition to the proposal by the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) to open nearly all federal waters off Alaska’s coasts — nearly 1 billion acres — to fossil fuel extraction under the 11th national offshore drilling plan.

Caribou in the Western Arctic around the Teshekpuk Lake area. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release February 17, 2026

Lawsuit Challenges Massive Oil and Gas Sale Over Harms to Western Arctic Public Lands and the Climate

Vast natural areas long protected from extraction will now be offered to oil companies for drilling

document February 17, 2026

Western Arctic: Amended and Supplemented Complaint

The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth U.S., represented by Earthjustice, are challenging the lease sale and the underlying management plan, or Integrated Activity Plan, that opens 18.5 million acres within the 23-million-acre Reserve to potential oil and gas drilling and infrastructure. The groups filed an amended and supplemented complaint in Alaska’s federal court that restarts a paused 2020 lawsuit from the first Trump administration.

A bison grazes at American Prairie.
(Ami Vitale for Earthjustice)
Press Release February 6, 2026

American Prairie Challenges BLM’s Proposed Revocation of Bison Grazing Permits

The administration’s proposal sets a dangerous precedent on public land management, reversing longstanding practice

document February 6, 2026

American Prairie Protest

American Prairie challenged a U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposal that, if approved, will revoke grazing permits used to sustain the group’s bison herd in north-central Montana.

document February 5, 2026

60-Day Notice of Intent to Sue: Endangered Species Act Violations Related to the Integrated Activity Plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

Conservation groups represented by Earthjustice issued a letter to the Bureau of Land Management and to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum providing the required 60-day notice of the groups’ intent to sue federal agencies for violating the Endangered Species Act. The letter alerts agencies that the groups plan to sue to protect threatened polar bears from oil and gas leasing and extraction in the Western Arctic.

Press Release February 3, 2026

Approval Of New Hotel On O‘ahu’s North Shore Sparks Lawsuit To Protect Wildlife

County pushed to assess new information on ecologically sensitive area

document February 3, 2026

Hawaii Circuit Court Complaint: Turtle Bay EIS

Plaintiffs Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Council for Hawai‘i, and Kūpa‘a Kuilima complain of Defendants City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting and Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P.

Caribou form large herds on the coastal plains north of the Brooks Range.
(Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com)
Press Release February 2, 2026

Trump Administration Prepares for New Oil and Gas Auction in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge

Interior’s “Call for Nominations” invites companies to choose public lands areas it wants to bid on in a future lease sale