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From the Experts February 21, 2025

How much do we subsidize cryptocurrency mining’s electricity use? No one knows.

Crypto mines have raised electricity rates for households while receiving big discounts and subsidies

A deep water drill ship anchored in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
Update February 19, 2025

We’re Suing to Block Trump’s Illegal Ocean Drilling Plan

Executive order gives oil and gas companies a green light to drill in public waters that had been protected off almost every U.S. coast.

A brown pelican covered in oil sits on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Jun. 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. (Charlie Riedel / AP)
Press Release February 19, 2025

Groups File First Environmental Lawsuit Vs. New Trump Administration, Challenging Illegal Order to Undo Ocean Protections from Offshore Drilling

Two legal actions challenge President Trump’s attempts to open offshore drilling

Press Release February 18, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Interior Plans to Advance Trump Energy Agenda

Interior secretary seeks plans to implement executive orders that pivot away from climate, toward ‘unleashing energy’

(Peter Arkle for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory February 11, 2025

Long Beach City Council Votes to Electrify Its Garbage Trucks

Long Beach becomes the second city in California to electrify 100% of its garbage truck fleet

Oil and gas fields in California's Central Valley.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release February 5, 2025

Lawsuit Challenges Federal Approvals for New Oil, Gas Drilling on California Public Lands

Coalition condemns Bureau of Land Management’s decision to continue granting new oil and gas wells in the heavily-polluted San Joaquin Valley

From the Experts: Victory February 4, 2025

D.C. Court Greenlights Climate Greenwashing Case

The Superior Court for the District of Columbia denied Tyson Food, Inc.’s efforts to avoid liability and allowed the case to move forward.

Navajo community leader Daniel Tso speaks out against fracking at a meeting that was required under the National Environmental Policy Act. The law gives communities a chance to speak out against projects that will impact them.
(Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
Press Release February 4, 2025

North Dakota Federal Judge Upends Key Environmental Regulations

Court sends strong reminder that Presidential Executive Orders must follow the law

People walk through the hallways at Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Virginia, on May 9, 2024. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
From the Experts February 4, 2025

New Report Examines Electricity Contracts for Data Centers and other Mega-load or Large-load Facilities

How electricity tariffs can protect households and small businesses from data centers and crypto mines’ enormous energy demands

document February 3, 2025

Tyson Greenwashing Case: Order Denying Motion to Dismiss

Judge Julie H. Becker denied Defendant’s motion to dismiss.

Agriculture in the Central Valley irrigated by part of the California Aqueduct, a system of canals, tunnels and pipelines that starts in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and conveys water to Southern California. (Rolf Schulten / Getty Images)
Article January 31, 2025

Here’s What Trump’s Really Up to With His Response to L.A. Fires

Trump’s actions would drain freshwater from a 1,000-square-mile estuary that provides drinking water to millions of people, irrigates the surrounding farmland, and sustains a salmon fishing industry.

People enjoy a sunny afternoon in a Los Angeles park with a view of the downtown skyline. (Chris Delmas / AFP via Getty Images)
Article January 28, 2025

10 Ways We’ll Fight the Trump Administration to Protect Our Environment

Earthjustice will use the power of the law to defend the right to a healthy environment.

CAFOs are industrial livestock operations that concentrate large numbers of animals and their waste.
(Dario Sabljack / Shutterstock)
From the Experts January 27, 2025

We Must Stop Defending Industrial Agriculture by Assuming We Have No Choice

Further industrializing animal agriculture is a short-sighted and dangerous response to food security; broader thinking leads to far better answers.

President Donald Trump holds a letter to the U.N. stating the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images)
Update January 24, 2025

La Administración Trump Abandona la Acción Climática, Pero La Crisis Continúa

Sin importar lo que nos depare, no dejaremos de luchar para eliminar gradualmente las emisiones que calientan el planeta, catalizar una transición energética limpia justa y equitativa, y proteger a las comunidades del desastre climático.

document January 24, 2025

LA Wildfires: Wildland Urban Interface

Report on the proportion of the structures destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades Fires that were within the Designated Wildland Urban Interface (WUI).

UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions Michael R. Bloomberg speaks onstage during The Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit In Partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies on September 19, 2023 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for Bloomberg Philanthropies)
Press Release January 24, 2025

Earthjustice Applauds Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Effort to Ensure U.S. Honors Paris Agreement Commitments

United States remains committed to its climate goals through action at every level

In the News: Newsday January 23, 2025

Lawsuit alleges DEC improperly exempted Caithness power plant in Yaphank from climate law

Gilbert Zelaya, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “We’re talking about decades of pollution that these communities have had to endure. Right now they’re doing nothing. … To us, that means the DEC is sending the message that they don’t care about the health and well-being of these communities.”

Flaring natural gas burns by jack pumps at an oil well near Buford, North Dakota in the Bakken oil fields. (William Campbell / Corbis via Getty Images)
Article January 23, 2025

Trump Unveiled His Fossil Fuel Agenda. We’ll Fight for a Clean Energy Future Instead.

A raft of executive orders envisions sweeping fossil fuel extraction on federal lands, waters