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Emergency Request Filed to Protect Imperiled Pacific Northwest Salmon
Earlier this week, conservation, fishing, and clean energy groups represented by Earthjustice filed a preliminary injunction request today for emergency measures to protect endangered salmon and steelhead in the Columbia Basin.

Without relief, these runs of fish could be irreparably harmed by lower Snake and Columbia River dam operations.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration abruptly scrapped a landmark agreement to save endangered salmon in the Columbia Basin.

The Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement, signed in late 2023, was a historic partnership between the federal government, Oregon, Washington, four Columbia Basin Treaty Tribes, and Earthjustice plaintiffs. Put simply, the agreement brought all the stakeholders together and was a promising step toward breaching the four dams on the Lower Snake River, where every salmon population is currently threatened or endangered. Without the important progress achieved through this agreement, the salmon have virtually no chance of recovery — something that is apparently of no concern to the Trump administration.

This case is not just about salmon — it’s also about justice and a way of life. The Trump administration’s decision to tear apart this carefully crafted agreement is another dark chapter in the federal government’s history of betraying Tribes. The salmon populations our lawsuit seeks to restore are key to the region’s ecosystem, economy, and Tribal culture.

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Friends of the Everglades Files Suit to Get Public Records on Everglades Detention Center

Friends of the Everglades, represented by Earthjustice and private attorneys, filed a public records suit against Florida because the state is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on a mass immigration detention center in the Everglades without disclosing financial arrangements with the federal government. Those financial arrangements would trigger compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act. The court of appeals recently paused a preliminary injunction ordering the wind-down of the facility — he court of appeals’ decision was based on claims that Florida had not even applied for federal funding.

However, recent disclosures confirm that Florida applied for a federal grant to fund the detention center before the injunction was issued — a fact state and federal agencies failed to disclose to the court of appeals. The failure to disclose those records also violates Florida’s Government-in-the-Sunshine Act, which requires agencies to make official records available to the public.

The Florida Division of Emergency Management commandeered property from Miami-Dade County in the Big Cypress National Preserve on June 23, 2025, and began spending hundreds of millions of public dollars to create a camp to hold people rounded up in immigration raids, which they cynically nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Earthjustice separately filed suit challenging the government’s failure to consider the environmental impacts before proceeding with the detention center.

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Feature Story: Columbia Basin Salmon in Peril

For 30 years, Earthjustice has fought to protect imperiled salmon in the Columbia River Basin. After winning six separate victories calling for better federal dam management, an agreement was finally in place that could have led to real change. But now that hard-won victory – and the salmon it would protect – are in peril.

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Earthjustice Lawsuit Against Line 5 Oil Tunnel Goes to Michigan Supreme Court

The Michigan Supreme Court said it will hear our challenge to Enbridge’s Line 5 oil tunnel. The lawsuit, brought by four Tribal Nations represented by Earthjustice and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), argues that the Michigan Public Service Commission broke state laws in approving Enbridge’s plan to construct a massive oil tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, a sacred site of creation for Anishinaabe peoples located in the center of the Great Lakes.

Enbridge’s proposal to run a hazardous liquids pipeline through a confined underground tunnel has never been attempted anywhere else in the world. Tunnel safety experts warn it could cause an explosion in the Great Lakes, which hold 84 percent of North America’s surface freshwater and provide drinking water for up to 40 million people. Enbridge is responsible for the million-gallon oil spill into the Kalamazoo River in 2010, for breaching multiple Minnesota aquifers during Line 3 construction, and for last year’s spill in Wisconsin’s Jefferson County, one of the largest oil spills in state history.

The heart of the Great Lakes is simply no place for an experimental oil tunnel.

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Appeal Filed to Stop Trump’s EPA from Suppressing Information About Factory Farm Air Pollution

The Trump EPA issued a new rule earlier this year that exempts factory farms from their duty to report dangerous air emissions to the public. We sued, but the rule was upheld in federal district court.

Now, Earthjustice is appealing that ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Our lawsuit seeks to ensure that industrial-scale livestock and poultry operations report significant releases of the extremely hazardous gases ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, as required by the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

Exposure to ammonia and hydrogen sulfide released from factory farms can cause health problems including respiratory diseases, nasal and eye irritation, headaches, nausea, and even death. According to a recent study, air pollution from the livestock industry, including ammonia and hydrogen sulfide releases, is responsible for over 12,700 U.S. deaths per year — more deaths than are attributed to air pollution from coal-fired power plants.

Releases of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide from factory farms have never been consistently reported, as required under the law. This lawsuit hopes to change that for good.


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