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Habitat destruction is the number one cause of extinction. This lawless proposal would eliminate the Endangered Species Act’s core protections against it.

Wild fish populations in the Columbia Basin are in serious trouble, with key stocks teetering on the brink of extinction.

Our teams in Bozeman, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, have spent decades fighting to safeguard biodiversity, to advance a just transition to clean energy, and to protect people’s health. We’re pleased to share highlights of our progress, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “If these proposals are finalized and withstand legal challenges, they will affect migratory birds and listed species by making it harder to protect the habitat that the species need to survive and recover.”

Proposed rule would eliminate habitat protections for endangered species in the midst of extinction crisis

“Congress should support real solutions like the Community Protection and Wildfire Resiliency Act that put the safety and needs of communities over the timber industry’s profits.”

Groups send opposition letter to U.S. Senators opposing the Fix our Forests Act of 2025

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.

Interior failed to properly evaluate the harm from billion-barrel oil lease sale

Pomeroy Dam, on the Illinois River in Oregon, was successfully demolished.

Groups express wide opposition to proposed legislation

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Oceans, Wildlife: “Industry cannot stand that their ability to profit is sometimes limited by the need to protect wildlife that has been on earth for millions of years. The harsh reality is that extinction means forever.”

Order seeks to open federal forest system to massive increase in logging

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

Steve Mashuda, Managing Attorney, Oceans Program: “We’re at a point with Rice’s whales where we need to be doing everything possible within our power to save this species. Slowing vessels down just as they’re transiting this narrow band of Rice’s Whale habitat in the Gulf of Mexico is a thing that can be done immediately.…