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| Dear Friend, |
| Earthjustice goes to court to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, the wild places we love, and our future on planet earth. |
| In every lawsuit, we represent our clients free of charge — because justice should not have a price tag. |
| Below are just a few of the lawsuits and legal actions we’ve filed in the last month. Your support allows our lawyers to go to work every day and fight for a more just, sustainable world. Thank you for making all of this possible! |
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| Lawsuit Filed to Stop Arctic Oil Exploration |
What happened: The Trump administration approved ConocoPhillips’ exploratory drilling program, which would subject hundreds of square miles to a caravan of industrial traffic, including bulldozers and 90,000-pound trucks.
The administration approved this project without taking steps to mitigate the harms from these activities, as it is required to do by law. It also gave the public shockingly little opportunity for input, ending its comment period after just a week.
What we did: Earthjustice filed a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s all-out assault on Arctic lands. Representing conservation groups and an Alaska Native organization, we are suing the administration for approving ConocoPhillips’ plans to tear up and plunder the Western Arctic.
Why it matters: The Western Arctic is an essential refuge for wildlife, including caribou that provide vital sustenance to nearby Alaska Native communities and migratory birds from around the world. It is the nation’s largest intact tract of public land, and it remains largely undeveloped.
This move by the administration is part of a push to maximize drilling across the entire Arctic region of the U.S. It’s also illegal, which is why Earthjustice is suing as part of our decades-long work to keep much of this last wild place still wild. |
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| Lawsuit Filed to Unlock $2.5 Billion for Electric Vehicle Charging |
What happened: The federal government set aside $2.5 billion to fund electric vehicle charging equipment and other clean transportation projects across the U.S. Then the Trump administration froze that funding, including $1.8 billion that had already been awarded to cities, states, and tribes.
What we did: Working with our partners, Earthjustice filed a new challenge to the Trump administration’s freeze of the $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program.
Why it matters: These charging grants aim to reduce emissions from the transportation sector, a big source of air pollution. In addition to contributing to the climate crisis, pollution from gas and diesel create major public health threats for millions of Americans. This pollution is especially harmful to marginalized communities that live next to major freight corridors due to redlining and discriminatory industrial planning. |
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| Lawsuit Filed to Protect the Rio Grande Delta from a Toxic LNG Project |
What happened: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the Rio Grande Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminal and Rio Bravo pipeline. Air pollution from the project would significantly harm public health in Port Isabel and surrounding communities.
What we did: Earthjustice, representing our partners and alongside the City of Port Isabel, challenged FERC’s inadequate analysis of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) plans at the LNG facility.
Why it matters: “Our coalition has had to repeatedly sue the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission because the regulator has never addressed the destruction and harm that Rio Grande LNG would cause to our low-income community’s public health and wildlife habitat,” said Bekah Hinojosa, co-founder of South Texas Environmental Justice Network. “If Rio Grande LNG is allowed to continue and expand its dangerous fossil fuel facility, it would be the biggest polluter in the Rio Grande Valley, spewing toxic particulate matter, smog, cancer-causing pollutants, and pollutants that worsen climate change.”
“Rio Grande LNG is wreaking havoc on the local environment and threatening our air, water, and local sacred sites,” said Roddy Hughes, Organizing Strategist from the Sierra Club. “It is shocking that FERC and the company continue to fail to fully analyze these impacts and do all they can to protect local communities. FERC must exercise its authority and finally put people over corporate profits.” |
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| Bad River Band Challenges Federal Approval for Line 5 Reroute |
What happened: Enbridge, a Canadian oil-pipeline corporation, intends to build a new 41-mile section of the Line 5 oil pipeline around the Bad River Band Reservation in northern Wisconsin.
The pipeline would endanger waters, fish, and wild rice that are culturally sacred and economically critical to Tribal members. And yet, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers unlawfully granted Enbridge a construction permit, despite receiving 150,000 public comments opposing the permit.
What we did: The Bad River Band, represented by Earthjustice, argues that the Corps’ permit fails to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. The current pipeline has been trespassing on the Band’s reservation for over a decade and faces a court-ordered shutdown deadline in June of 2026.
Why it matters: This reroute will mean blasting, horizontal drilling, and trenching across hundreds of wetlands and streams. It will likely do permanent damage to the Band’s treaty-protected water, plants, and medicines — all for the enrichment of a foreign oil pipeline company.
“For more than a decade, we have had to endure the unlawful trespass of a dangerous oil pipeline on our lands and waters,” said Bad River Band Chairwoman Elizabeth Arbuckle. “The reroute only makes matters worse. Enbridge’s history is full of accidents and oil spills. If that happens here, our Tribe and other communities in the Northwoods will suffer unacceptable consequences. From the Bad River to Lake Superior, our waters are the lifeblood of our reservation. They have fed and nurtured our Tribe for hundreds of years. We will do everything in our power to protect them.” |
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| Photo Credits (top to bottom): Caribou in the Western Arctic in an around the Lake Teshekpuk area (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice); Data centers being built in Leesburg, Virginia, next to the Potomac Energy Center, a gas power plant (Gerville / Getty Images); Protestors paddle next to the Mackinac Bridge at the Pipe Out Paddle Up Floatilla Against the Line 5 pipeline in Mackinaw City, Michigan (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice). |
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