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In the News: National Parks Traveler May 16, 2025

Interior Department Mum On How It Plans To Unleash Public Lands

Blaine Miller-McFeeley, Senior Legislative Representative, Earthjustice: “These heavily redacted FOIA records confirm what we already know: that the Trump administration is selling off and selling out our public lands to benefit a wealthy few, and they’re doing it all behind closed doors. These action plans should be communicated to the public — we all have…

Jude Addo-Chidie, a Ph.D. student in agronomy at Purdue University, takes a soil sample from a corn field, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, at the Southeast-Purdue Agricultural Center in Butlerville, Ind. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been removing important climate-related data from its websites that farmers rely on to adapt to extreme weather. (Joshua A. Bickel / AP)
Update May 14, 2025

We Just Won Our First Victory Against This Trump Administration

The Trump administration agreed to restore climate-related information to government websites, many of which farmers rely on to adapt to increasingly extreme weather.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) speaks at a demonstration outside of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington on Feb. 6, 2025. Markey and other lawmakers were blocked from entering the EPA and meeting with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials. (Andrew Thomas / NurPhoto via AP)
Update April 8, 2025

We Will Not Just Watch Our Government Get Dismantled

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

(Ujesh Krishnan / Unsplash)
video March 20, 2025

Lawsuit to Stop Trump Administration’s Censorship of Climate Data

Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against Trump’s USDA, asking a court to restore access to climate-related information on government websites and prohibit further purging.

Dry cracked earth is visible on a farm in Kaplan, Louisiana in 2023. Droughts in 2023 impacted farmers across the country. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
case February 24, 2025

Challenging the Trump Administration’s Climate Censorship that Threatens Farmers and Our Food Supply

The lawsuit seeks a court order requiring USDA to restore access to key webpages and preventing USDA from removing additional climate-related information.

The sun flares over the top of the sign marking the headquarters building for the US Department of Agriculture on April 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. (J. David Ake / Getty Images)
Press Release February 24, 2025

Departamento de Agricultura de Trump Demandado por Eliminar Páginas Web Vitales Para Agricultores

La pérdida de recursos informativos del departamento perjudicará a los agricultores y afectará la seguridad alimentaria

In the News: The New York Times February 24, 2025

Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites

Peter Lehner, Managing Attorney, Sustainable Food & Farming Program: “You can purge a website of the words ‘climate change,’ but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away.”

document February 24, 2025

Complaint: Trump USDA Sued for Erasing Webpages Vital to Farmers

This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s unlawful purge of climate-related policies, guides, datasets, and resources from its websites, without any advance notice as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act, without engaging in reasoned decision-making as required by the Administrative Procedure Act, and in violation of its obligation under the Freedom of Information Act to publish certain information proactively.

The sun flares over the top of the sign marking the headquarters building for the US Department of Agriculture on April 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. (J. David Ake / Getty Images)
Press Release February 24, 2025

Trump USDA Sued for Erasing Webpages Vital to Farmers

Loss of critical USDA resources will hurt farmers and food security

document February 24, 2025

USDA Climate Webpages Purge Lawsuit Feb 2025

This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s unlawful purge of climate-related policies, guides, datasets, and resources from its websites, without any advance notice as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act, without engaging in reasoned decision-making as required by the Administrative Procedure Act, and in violation of its obligation under the Freedom of Information Act to publish certain information proactively.

Press Release December 20, 2024

Groups Sue Fisheries Service for Withholding Public Information

Agency withheld public records, photographs, and videos related to bycatch in trawl fisheries off California and Alaska.

Red knots, ruddy turnstones, dunlin and semipalmated sandpipers coming through the Delaware Bay near Fortescue, New Jersey, on May 23, 2022.
(Aristide Economopoulos for Earthjustice)
Article October 20, 2023

What a Shorebird Can Teach Us About the Biodiversity Crisis

Throughout the animal kingdom, increasing pressures from industry are putting endangered or threatened species like the red knot at risk.

document February 13, 2023

FOIA Appeal Docket No. GFO-2023-00170-F

Earthjustice respectfully appeals the decision of the Department of Energy / Golden Field Office (GFO) to withhold records in response to Earthjustice’s Freedom of Information Act request number GFO-2023-00170-F. Earthjustice’s FOIA request seeks “all submitted concept papers, related documents, written communications, and other information received in response to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Additional Clean Hydrogen Programs (Section 40314): Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs Funding Opportunity Announcement, #DE-FOA-0002779, issued by the Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Program on September 22, 2022, with concept papers due on November 7, 2022.”

Press Release July 29, 2022

Conservation groups demand transparency on horseshoe crab proposal ahead of commission vote

Model upon which horseshoe crab proposal is based remains unavailable to the public

document October 19, 2021

Homestead detention center FOIA lawsuit

Earthjustice, on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to compel several federal agencies to respond to unanswered Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding the Florida Homestead migrant detention center for unaccompanied children.

Press Release October 19, 2021

Groups Probe Government Over Migrant Children’s Possible Exposure to Toxic Chemicals

Advocates sue federal agencies to learn more about Florida site with known contaminants, including arsenic, lead, and mercury

Press Release October 19, 2021

Grupos Ambientales y de Justicia Investigan A Gobierno Estadounidense Por Posible Exposición De Menores Migrantes A Sustancias Químicas Tóxicas

Defensores demandan a agencias federales para obtener más información sobre centro de detención con contaminantes como arsénico, plomo y mercurio.

document September 16, 2020

Tornillo FOIA Complaint

Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Hispanic Federation, GreenLatinos, and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement