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Article December 5, 2025

The Lawyers Giving Us Hope

Six Earthjustice attorneys share what motivates them to keep fighting for the planet and its people.

Press Release December 4, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Senate Vote Reopening Arctic Refuge to Oil Drilling

Senators use Congressional Review Act to reinstate Trump-era plan maximizing oil drilling

Press Release December 4, 2025

Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Trump EPA Final Rule That Delays Methane Pollution Protections from Oil and Gas Industry

Unlawful delay ignores health risks, energy waste, widespread opposition

En 2009, EPA determinó que las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero de los vehículos nuevos contribuyen a la contaminación que causa el cambio climático. (Foto cortesía de Steven Worster).
Press Release December 3, 2025

Declaración de Earthjustice sobre la Reducción de las Normas de Ahorro de Combustible por Parte de la Administración Trump

“Los costos del transporte ya están afectando a los hogares, y esta norma propuesta agrava la crisis de asequibilidad que enfrentan nuestras familias y comunidades”

In 2009, EPA determined that emissions of greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles contribute to pollution that causes climate change.
(Photo courtesy of Steven Worster.)
Press Release December 3, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Trump Administration’s Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards

“Transportation costs are already squeezing households, and this proposed rule worsens the affordability crisis facing our families and communities.”

document December 3, 2025

Petition for Review of Methane Compliance Rule

Health, environment, and community groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency’s rushed and unlawful final rule to delay protections against methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

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 December 3, 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 December 1, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Congressional Hearing on the Roadless Rule

Roadless Area Conservation Act would solidify protections for national forests

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Brooks Range mountains, Alaska. (Patrick J. Endres / Getty Images)
Article December 1, 2025

The Trump Administration Is Prepping to Sell off Alaska’s Arctic to Oil and Gas Companies

In a series of recent moves, the administration is opening most of the vast and precious Arctic ecosystem to drilling.

Press Release November 25, 2025

EPA Proposes to Delay Closure of Some of the Largest Toxic Coal Ash Ponds, in Violation of the Law

Trump’s EPA proposal would allow EPA to grant 11 coal power plants extensions to continue dumping toxic coal ash in unlined ponds until October 17, 2031

Press Release November 25, 2025

Trump’s EPA Abandons Defense of National Soot Standard That Saves Lives

Abandoning soot standards would cause more asthma attacks, heart disease, and early death — especially in vulnerable communities

In the News: CBS November 20, 2025

Trump administration moves to roll back some protections for endangered and threatened species

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “The Services are required to prevent harmful consequences to species, not ignore them.”

A northern spotted owl in Oregon. The northern spotted owl was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 1990. (Kyle Sullivan / BLM)
Update November 20, 2025

Trump’s Latest Attack on Endangered Species Act Threatens Biodiversity

Already, over one-third of plant and animal species in the U.S. are at risk of disappearing.

Press Release November 20, 2025

Trump Propone Expansión Masiva de Perforación Marítima en Aguas Públicas Protegidas en Alaska, California y Cerca de Florida

Se prevé que el plan de perforación en alta mar encuentre una fuerte oposición dentro de la opinión pública

North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. (EcoFlight)
Press Release November 20, 2025

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

Congress and the administration continue attacks on our national public lands

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 California spotted owl perches on a tree. (Rick Kuyper / USFWS)
Press Release November 19, 2025

Lawsuit Seeks Final Protection for California Spotted Owls

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to finalize Endangered Species Act protections for California spotted owls it proposed in 2023