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Tribal plaintiffs are asking the court to vacate federal authorizations for the mine while federal agencies redo the flawed and illegal environmental study

Christina Reichert, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “When you look at the language in the technical assistance process, it doesn’t include the things they failed to do at the programmatic level. There’s no baseline analysis. There’s no requirement to use the best available science. There’s no requirement for them to do an effects analysis.”

Three Alaska Native tribes challenge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of a fill permit for a controversial suction dredge gold mining operation proposed about 30 miles east of Nome in Northwest Alaska.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers initially rejected the mining permit but last year reversed its decision, approving harmful gold dredging that could destroy a prized estuary

Environmental laws have made our lives safer and healthier. Earthjustice will fight for them in court.

If the Trump administration breaks the law to hold timber sales, we will see them in court.

Earthjustice blasts new Trump administration efforts to ignore dozens of laws to fast-track harmful border wall construction

The Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies will wreak havoc on laws that protect everyone’s health and the environment.

The settlement resolves a Clean Water Act lawsuit filed in 2023 by Earthjustice on behalf of community group Hui Mālama Honokōhau

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, Oceans: “We’re in a situation where efforts to weaken clean water protections are not only terrible public policy, because all Americans need and deserve clean water, it’s also a situation where we would be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by weakening protections for clean water.”

This Remedy Phase Settlement Agreement resolves the Remedy Phase of the Hui Mālama Honokōhau complaint against the County of Hawai‘i alleging violations of the federal Clean Water Act.

Waterways across the U.S. poised to lose even more protections from pollution and reckless development

Groups send letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin

Sam Sankar, Senior VP of Programs, Earthjustice: “The majority is saying EPA can still protect water quality if it just invests more staff time. I guess they haven’t heard that Trump is gutting the agency.”

State conservationists award team for litigation that protects the Florida wetlands.

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “If the Corps is really handing out permits without checking compliance to the Clean Water Act, it could hurt Colorado, so the state will have to be vigilant.”

Earthjustice and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) represent the Nez Perce Tribe, Quinault Indian Nation, Bay Mills Indian Community, Puyallup Tribe of Indians, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in this case.

Here’s why we remain confident that the courts are a place where we can mount an effective defense of the environment.