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North Denver community members, Lissa Leticia de Gonzales, Jose Molina and Lucy Molina, left to right, near the Suncor Refinery, which is heavily polluting their neighborhoods. (Carmel Zucker for Earthjustice)
feature July 3, 2025

Healthy Communities Program Report

The progress we have secured is a testament to the fact that the law and science are on our side. It also reflects the desire of most people across the country for a safer and cleaner world. Our shared wins represent decades of painstaking work, culminating in concrete measures that will save lives across the country. We’re celebrating our victories and the many opportunities ahead.

(Architect of the Capitol)
Press Release July 3, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on House Passage of the Budget Reconciliation Bill

This isn’t just a dereliction of duty; it’s an unconscionable betrayal of the American people.

The St. James Boat Club launch, along Blind River, part of the Lake Maurepas watershed, in Gramercy, La. Environmental advocates are wary of anything that might make air quality worse or threaten wildlife, fearing a plant designed to capture climate-changing carbon and make clean-burning hydrogen fuel will actually do more harm to the Lake Maurepas basin. (Gerald Herbert / AP)
document July 1, 2025

Fact Sheet: Air Products’ Proposed Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Facility on Lake Maurepas

Air Products is in pursuit of an Army Corps’ Clean Water Act 404 permit and a Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources’ Coastal Use Permit (CUP) that would allow for the construction of a carbon sequestration facility.

Press Release June 30, 2025

Groups File Suit Over Approval of “Boondoggle” Yazoo Pumps Project

EPA and Army Corps illegally approved costly project without considering practicable alternatives

document June 30, 2025

Yazoo Pumps Complaint

Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.

A fossil fuel drilling site on Alaska's North Slope. (Marc Morrison / Cavan Images / Getty Images)
From the Experts June 30, 2025

5 Special Places That Trump’s Megabill Would Sell Out — to Pay for Billionaire Tax Breaks

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

document June 30, 2025

Comments on Line 5 Tunnel Project Draft EIS by Bay Mills Indian Community

The Bay Mills Indian Community submitted comments on the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Line 5 Tunnel Project.

The 2.4 million acre Flathead National Forest in Montana. (Your Forests Your Future / U.S. Forest Service)
Article June 30, 2025

5 Ways Trump Is Selling Out Our Public Lands

For decades, we’ve defended our public lands for the benefit of all people, and we’ll continue fighting back as long as Trump’s attacks continue.

document June 27, 2025

Motion for Temp Restraining Order & Preliminary Injunction, Everglades Detention Facility

Plaintiffs Friends of the Everglade and Center for Biological Diversity respectfully file this motion for expedited relief seeking entry of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo during the pendency of this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to enforce the National Environmental Policy Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and state and local laws prohibiting the ongoing construction of an immigration detention center within the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades.

Press Release June 26, 2025

Community and Environmental Groups Condemn New Oil and Gas Drilling in Kern County

Kern’s Board of Supervisors voted to approve a zoning ordinance that will fast-track thousands of new oil and gas wells in California’s Central Valley

document June 26, 2025

Testimony of Lisa Evans Before Congress

Earthjustice Senior Counsel Lisa Evans was the sole witness invited by the minority to testify before the Subcommittee on Environment hearing titled “A Decade Later: A Review of Congressional Action, Environmental Protection Agency Rules, and Beneficial Use Opportunities for Coal Ash” on June 26, 2025.

Jennifer Hadayia, the Executive Director of Air Alliance Houston, on June 20, 2025, in Houston, Texas. (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 25, 2025

Nonprofits, Tribes and Local Governments Sue Trump Administration for Terminating EPA Grant Programs

Terminating these programs leaves communities more vulnerable to pollution and disasters

Press Release: Victory June 24, 2025

Federal Appeals Court Finds EPA’s Analysis of the Climate Change Impact of Renewable Fuels Arbitrary and Capricious

EPA disregarded the results of its own climate review and made inconsistent statements

Elk in the Rapid River Roadless area in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest. (John McCarthy / The Wilderness Society)
Press Release June 23, 2025

Earthjustice Responds as Trump Administration Takes Aim at Longstanding Rule Protecting National Forestlands

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a rollback of the Roadless Rule

Press Release June 18, 2025

Ten Groups Push Back Against Trump’s Illegal Campbell Plant Extension

Public interest groups challenge the Department of Energy’s sham order

document June 13, 2025

‘Will Affect’ Written Comments of Bad River Band on Enbridge Line 5 Reroute

Analysis of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa supporting the Band’s determination under CWA 401(a)(2) that the proposed Enbridge Line 5 Reroute will violate the Band’s water quality requirements.

Press Release June 12, 2025

Community Groups Speak Out Against Kern County Oil and Gas Permitting Ordinance

Kern’s Board of Supervisors to vote on the ordinance by the end of June after a decade of community objection and legal challenges

The Kuskokwim River provides a critical source of wild food and serves as a bedrock of identity and cultural values for Alaska Native Tribal citizens and community members living downstream from the Donlin mine site.
Press Release: Victory June 11, 2025

Court Orders Agencies to Revise Environmental Study Underlying Key Federal Permits for the Donlin Gold Mine

The U.S. District Court in Alaska orders the mine’s permitting agencies to take a more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by revising the project’s environmental study