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For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

Debbie Chizewer, Managing Attorney, Midwest Office: “This would be unprecedented. The only time the corps’ emergency provisions have been used before have been for natural disasters.”

Six Tribes end cooperation with U.S. Army Corps over “Energy Emergency” plans

Six Michigan Tribes withdrew from Line 5 federal discussions after learning that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will likely fast-track its approval for Enbridge’s massive oil tunnel project, in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order declaring an “energy emergency.”

Los ataques a estos populares monumentos pondrían en peligro innumerables lugares sagrados, paisajes y recursos culturales.

Attacks on Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands national monuments would jeopardize countless sacred sites, landscapes, and cultural resources.

Harley M. Broyles, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office: “Rodrigues’s withdrawal is only the first step to correct the Green Administration’s legal missteps. Now the Governor needs to follow through and appoint one of the other nominees he’s already been given through the legally mandated process.”

Alaska tribal organizations express disappointment over the ruling, which allows fisheries managers to use older studies resulting in poor fisheries decisions favoring commercial trawling over subsistence harvests

Alaska U.S. District Court ruling from March 11, 2025 finding that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) can continue to rely on nearly 20-year-old environmental studies to inform federal management of the massive pollock trawling industry in the Bering Sea and Aleutians Islands.

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

At Earthjustice, we can reach our full collective potential by investing in each other, cultivating the generative power of our differences, fostering a vibrant community built on respect and empathy, and maintaining our fearless drive to keep learning.

Ian Dooley, Attorney, Alaska Office: “This would be the first land exchange under ANILCA that allows for divesting protected lands out of a conservation system unit for the purpose of putting a road through it. That has never happened before.”

Gussie Lord, Managing Attorney, Tribal Partnerships Program: “There’s certainly a lot of trepidation in Indian Country because so many tribal programs rely on federal funding. These are absolutely legal obligations based on the federal trust responsibility.”

Now is the time to let the administration know we won’t stand for selling America’s public lands to the highest bidding polluter.

Coal is an expensive, dirty, and dangerous energy source. We’re not going back to it.

The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, alongside conservation groups, filed a motion to join a lawsuit to defend Yellowstone National Park’s science-based bison management plan.

Motion to intervene filed in a lawsuit from Montana and Wyoming

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, alongside Tribal and conservation groups, filed a motion to join a lawsuit to defend the Biden administration’s 2024 decision ending new coal leasing on public lands in Wyoming and Eastern Montana’s Powder River Basin.