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Progress Rail’s EMD Joule Battery Electric Locomotive. (Progress Rail)
Press Release July 29, 2025

Legislation Reintroduced to Transform the United States’ Rail Network

All Aboard Act dedicates $200 billion over five years to build transportation system of the future

Emissions rise from a coal-fired generation station in Indiana. (Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg Creative via Getty Images)
Article July 29, 2025

Why the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Matters

The EPA said greenhouse gases are a risk to public health. Scientists and the courts have affirmed it. Now, Trump’s EPA wants to pretend that climate change isn’t a problem.

The Maryland State House in Annapolis, MD. (Spartana Photography)
Article July 28, 2025

How Maryland is Taking Climate Action into Its Own Hands — While Cutting Energy Bills

The state’s new energy law is the latest win for Earthjustice’s regional zero-emissions work, which is gaining ground despite federal foot dragging.

The U.S. Capitol is reflected in a fountain in Washington, D.C.  (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg Creative via Getty)
Press Release July 28, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Westerman-Golden Permitting Reform Bill

“This proposal will only result in more pollution, poorer health outcomes, and dirty air and water for everyone.”

A sheriff's deputy pauses while combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area in July 2025. (Julio Cortez / AP)
Article July 28, 2025

Climate Change Is Driving Extreme Rainfall and Flooding

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

Heat pumps can warm and cool our spaces, heat our water, and dry clothes. (Lily Padula for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory July 24, 2025

U.S. Court Allows New York State Building Electrification to Begin

Court upholds New York’s all-electric new buildings law, which saves New Yorkers money and cuts climate pollution

Press Release July 24, 2025

Public Advocacy Groups Take Trump Administration to Court for Illegal Coal Plant Extension

The Department of Energy’s unlawful and unreasonable extension of the J.H. Campbell coal plant is an abuse of emergency powers

From the Experts July 24, 2025

Pathways To Climate-Friendly Food & Agriculture; A Preliminary Analysis

A dive into food and agriculture greenhouse gas emissions and net greenhouse gas reduction pathways

document July 23, 2025

NYS Court Decision: All Electric Buildings (July 2025)

Court determines New York has the power to require new buildings to use clean electrical appliances instead of allowing dirty fossil fuel combustion in people’s homes and other new buildings.

Press Release July 22, 2025

FERC Approves Expedited Energy Plan for Two Grid Operators, Favoring Methane Gas Power Plants

Regional transmission organizations SPP and MISO will accelerate mostly methane gas power plants, discriminating against renewable energy projects

Reflejo del Capitolio sobre una fuente en Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg Creative via Getty)
Press Release July 22, 2025

Declaración de Earthjustice sobre Audiencia de Reforma de Permisos del Comité de Recursos Naturales de la Cámara de Representantes

“Las iniciativas de ‘reforma de permisos’, lideradas por los republicanos, no son más que un caballo de Troya para debilitar leyes ambientales fundamentales como la Ley de Agua Limpia y la Ley de Especies en Peligro de Extinción”.

The U.S. Capitol is reflected in a fountain in Washington, D.C.  (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg Creative via Getty)
Press Release July 22, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on House Natural Resources Committee Permitting Reform Hearing

“Republican-led ‘permitting reform’ efforts are nothing more than a trojan horse for weakening bedrock environmental laws like the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.”

Smog covers the city of Los Angeles.
(Photo courtesy of Ben Amstutz)
Press Release: Victory July 21, 2025

Court Upholds Landmark Rule to Advance Zero-Emissions Water Heaters & Boilers

Southern California standard is nation’s first to advance zero-emissions industrial boilers, cutting smog-forming pollution by a staggering 5.6 tons per day

Coal mines in the Powder River Basin. More than 80% of the federal coal applied for under paused leases is in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana.
(WildEarth Guardians / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Update July 18, 2025

Government Signals Plan to Reopen Powder River Basin to Coal Development

We’ve fought too hard to leave coal in the past, where it belongs, to let Trump drag us backward.

document July 18, 2025

Court Decision on Southern California Industrial Boiler Rule 1146.2

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California upheld the nation’s first rule to electrify industrial boilers and water heaters.

PUSH Buffalo's executive director, Dawn Wells-Clyburn, stands outside of the organization's training center. (Brandon Watson for Earthjustice)
Article July 11, 2025

Trump’s EPA Cancelled 350 Environmental Justice Grants, Then Congress Cut Funding for Future Projects. Here’s Why That Matters.

The new federal budget rescinds funding meant for communities dealing with environmental hazards – but there’s still hope that some promised investments can be salvaged.

(Indigo Skies Photography)
From the Experts July 11, 2025

Bonneville Power Administration’s Energy Market Choice Will Cause Widespread Harm Across the Northwest

Nonprofit groups are suing to force a review of the decision by BPA that would cause energy bills to rise and reduce access to clean energy across a broad region

(Gyn9037 / Shutterstock)
Press Release July 10, 2025

Energy and Conservation Groups File Legal Challenge to Bonneville Power Administration’s Energy Market Decision

BPA plans to join the Markets+ energy market over a larger Western one; the choice would cause a spike in energy bills and reduce access to clean energy for Northwest power customers