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Press Release June 18, 2025

Ten Groups Push Back Against Trump’s Illegal Campbell Plant Extension

Public interest groups challenge the Department of Energy’s sham order

Caribou make their way across the Teshekpuk Lake area of northern Alaska. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 18, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Trump Administration Plan to Open Most of the Western Arctic to Oil and Gas Drilling

The public has just two weeks to comment on an illegal drilling plan that would destroy ecologically sensitive areas and deepen the climate crisis

Adrian Martinez, Director of the Right To Zero Campaign. (Hannah Benet for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 17, 2025

Earthjustice Taps Adrian Martinez as Director of the Right To Zero Campaign

With Paul Cort retiring, Martinez will lead campaign in a time of urgent need for affirmative progress in states to electrify everything

Snake River's blue waters stand out against green landscape with Teton Mountain Range ascending in the background. Grand Tetons National Park, Teton County, Wyoming. (Edwin Remsberg / Getty Images)
Update June 17, 2025

Trump Administration Reneges on Deal to Save Salmon in the Northwest

The Trump administration’s decision to abandon the agreement continues the administration’s pattern of breaking promises, ignoring science, and devaluing our iconic lands and wildlife.

Press Release June 16, 2025

Albany Lawmakers Repeal Outdated Requirement To Stop Continued Expansion of Costly Fracked Gas Infrastructure

After years of advocacy, Albany lawmakers take action that will help lower utility bills for New Yorkers and advance NY’s green energy transition; Repealed “100-foot rule” is a key component of the NY HEAT Act, will serve as foundation for future efforts to modernize NY’s energy grid, lower costs for families

Press Release June 13, 2025

Ninth Circuit Deals Setback to Willow Oil Project in Alaska

Interior must reconsider the project after court concludes approval violated the law

Press Release June 12, 2025

Community Groups Speak Out Against Kern County Oil and Gas Permitting Ordinance

Kern’s Board of Supervisors to vote on the ordinance by the end of June after a decade of community objection and legal challenges

Much of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is protected from logging and roadbuilding thanks to the roadless rule.
(Ivan Kish / Getty Images)
Press Release June 11, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Reintroduction of the Roadless Area Conservation Act

The bill would permanently codify the U.S. Forest Service’s roadless rule into federal law, protecting over 50 million acres of national forests from logging and other development

Emissions from a stack at the Mitchell Power Plant, a coal powered plant, in Moundsville, West Virginia. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 11, 2025

Trump’s EPA Abandons Its Duty to Protect Public from Power Plant Air Pollution

EPA seeks to end limits on mercury and arsenic and climate pollution, increasing harm to communities and reversing progress on climate action

A fossil fuel drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. (Marc Morrison / Cavan Images / Getty Images)
From the Experts June 11, 2025

5 Special Places That Trump’s Megabill Would Sell Out — to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

Press Release June 11, 2025

ElectrifyNY Statement: Senate Passes the Clean Deliveries Act

Assembly must pass clean air and public health bill now

An expansive view of the Bull Mountains in Montana. (Northern Plains Resource Council)
Press Release June 6, 2025

Interior Approves Expansion for Lawless Montana Coal Mine Without Public Review

Administration cites fake “energy emergency” in failing to produce draft EIS

From the Experts June 6, 2025

The Trump Administration Forces Power Plants to Continue Burning Fossil Fuels

Department of Energy’s abuse of power charges consumers for an emergency that doesn’t exist.

Press Release June 5, 2025

USDA Grantees Sue Trump Administration to Stop Illegal Grant Terminations

Wide range of nonprofits take action against U.S. Department of Agriculture for illegal withholding of important funding, seek order to reverse grant terminations

document June 5, 2025

Lawsuit Filing v. USDA re: Grant Termination

This action seeks to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s policy, pattern, and practice of unlawfully terminating hundreds of grants issued to nonprofit organizations, farmers, ranchers, universities, cities, and states. Defendants’ policy, pattern, and practice has undercut efforts to strengthen rural and agricultural communities, address food security in low-income communities, support beginning farmers, empower urban communities to address climate and heat risks, and support the production and marketing of climate-smart commodities.

The outdoor unit of a heat pump system. (Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
From the Experts June 5, 2025

Washington Regulators Must Hold Utilities Accountable in the Clean Energy Transition

Decisions made by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission can help meet the state’s climate goals and keep energy reliable and affordable for customers.

The sun rises over a hazy New York City skyline as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. (Seth Wenig / AP)
Press Release June 3, 2025

Time is Running Out for New York to Pass Health and Climate Legislation as Wildfires Approach

Canada wildfires to cover Northeast skies as New York legislators return to Albany with days left in session, clean air and climate legislation remain on the table

Coral at Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge.
(James Maragos / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Press Release June 3, 2025

Third ‘Upwell: A Wave of Ocean Justice’ Symposium Spotlights Continued Fight for Ocean Justice

Advocates representative of historically-excluded and marginalized communities gathered to center ocean justice ahead of World Ocean Day