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document November 19, 2025

SPEED Act Opposition Letter

Over 100 groups oppose Chair Westerman’s “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act” (The “SPEED Act”).

A manatee calf with its mother at Three Sisters Springs in Florida. Earthjustice is dedicated to <a href="/office/florida">curbing the widespread contamination of Florida waters</a> by sewage, fertilizer, and manure. (James R.D. Scott / Getty Images)
Press Release November 19, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Another Trump Administration Attack on Endangered Species

Set of proposed rules would hollow out bedrock environmental law

Press Release November 18, 2025

Demanda Impugna Primera Oferta de la 2da Administración Trump Para Petróleo en Alta Mar

La oferta de petróleo en el Golfo está programada para el 10 de diciembre.

People gather at the beach after sunset with offshore oil and gas platform Esther in the distance in Seal Beach, California. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)
Update November 18, 2025

We’re Suing the Trump Administration Over Its Unlawful Gulf of Mexico Oil Sale

The Interior Department plans to hold an 80-million-acre oil sale in the Gulf of Mexico on Dec. 10.

Press Release November 18, 2025

Lawsuit Challenges First Offshore Oil Sale of New Trump Administration

Gulf oil sale scheduled for December 10

JJ Waters stands in the surf along the shore near her home in Pensacola Beach, Florida. (Gregg Pachkowski for Earthjustice)
Article November 18, 2025

Trump’s Ocean Drilling Sale Risks Another Disaster for Gulf Communities — We’re Suing

15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, the Trump administration is illegally selling off nearly 80 million acres of public waters in the Gulf for oil and gas drilling.

Two sandhill cranes dance in the Western Arctic, in the area close to Lake Teshekpuk. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release November 13, 2025

The Trump Administration Announces Rollback of a Rule that Helped Protect the Western Arctic from Harmful Oil and Gas Drilling

The Department of the Interior announced it will finalize the rescission of common-sense rules aimed at better protecting ecologically sensitive public lands including Teshekpuk Lake

Caribou in the Western Arctic around the Teshekpuk Lake area. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release November 11, 2025

Exploratory oil and gas drilling and seismic exploration move forward in the Western Arctic

Bureau of Land Management issues an environmental study to authorize ConocoPhillips’ winter drilling and seismic projects in Teshekpuk Lake and Colville River Special Areas

Debris and smoke fills the sky during the demolition of the Board of Light and Power's coal-burning J.B. Sims Generating Station in Grand Haven, Michigan. (Cory Morse / The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
From the Experts October 27, 2025

The Cost of Trump’s Coal Fixation

It is time to end the era of coal once and for all.

Caribou on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (Florian Schulz / protectthearctic.org)
Press Release October 23, 2025

Trump Administration Opens the Entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas Leasing

At the expense of communities and our climate, this massive public lands attack auctions off treasured lands in the nation’s largest wildlife refuge to benefit fossil fuel companies

Caribou make their way across the Teshekpuk Lake area of northern Alaska. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release October 21, 2025

The Trump Administration Plans New Oil and Gas Leases in the Western Arctic — and Will Soon Finalize a Rule Repealing Protections

The Department of the Interior is taking steps to offer up millions of acres of public land for drilling in the Arctic despite the ongoing government shutdown

North Antelope Mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. (Ecoflight)
Press Release October 8, 2025

Senate Passes Congressional Review Act Resolution to Reopen Montana’s Powder River Basin to New Coal Leasing

Resolution will upend the public lands management system as we know it

Kids take a break in a swimming pool in the shadow of the James H. Miller, Jr., coal-fired power plant in Adamsville, Ala. The Trump administration has exempted the plant from pollution limits set in the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Press Release September 29, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Coal Industry Giveaways

Americans will foot the bill for dirty fossil fuel power

Tania Galloni (Saul Martinez for Earthjustice). Steve Mashuda (Jovelle Tamayo for Earthjustice). Hana Vizcarra (Matt Roth for Earthjustice). David Henkin (Elyse Butler for Earthjustice).
feature September 8, 2025

The Earthjustice Lawyers Taking on the Trump Administration

Meet some of the lawyers behind our cases, and learn how they’re defending our land, air, and water against the Trump administration’s unprecedented threats.

Press Release September 8, 2025

Challenge to the Latest Illegal Extension of J.H. Campbell Coal Plant

The Trump administration forces the aging, dirty coal power plant to continue burning coal even as the electricity is not needed

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)
Press Release September 4, 2025

Unprecedented House Vote Could Roll Back Plan That Ended New Coal Leasing in Powder River Basin

House passes Congressional Review Act resolution that could upend public lands management system

A controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill sends towers of fire hundreds of feet into the air over the Gulf of Mexico on June 9, 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / US Coast Guard)
Update August 26, 2025

Government Rejects New Drilling Proposal from the Company Behind the Deepwater Horizon Spill

What’s happening: The federal government has rejected an initial proposal by BP, the company behind the worst oil spill in U.S. history, to build a new, ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision came after Members of Congress sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, urging the agency not to…

Press Release August 26, 2025

Members of Congress Urge Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to Reject BP’s Ultra-deepwater Oil Drilling Proposal in Gulf of Mexico

Members have serious concerns about BP’s readiness to safely operate “Kaskida” project