We're Suing Over BP's New Gulf Drilling Project, 16 Years After the Company's Deepwater Horizon Disaster The government greenlit BP’s proposal for a new ultra-deepwater drilling project in the Gulf, despite significant red flags.

Just sixteen years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, BP’s Kaskida project could bring another environmental disaster to the Gulf if a loss-of-control event occurred.

We're Suing: Earthjustice is challenging the Trump admin’s reckless decision to approve a new ultra-deepwater drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico.​

By failing to implement the soot standard, the EPA is undermining its own authority, skirting its responsibility to the American people, and sacrificing public health and safety and the very lives of vulnerable Americans to polluters' interests.

Earthjustice is suing Trump's EPA for failing to fully implement the lifesaving national soot standard that is supposed to protect us from dangerous air pollution.

Doctors and scientists have made it overwhelmingly clear that soot pollution sickens and kills people.

The Little-Known Law Congress is Abusing to Sell Out Our Public Lands How lawmakers are clearing the way for mining and fossil fuel development across the western U.S. and Alaska.

The Senate just weaponized an arcane law called the Congressional Review Act to strip protections away from Minnesota's Boundary Waters.

The move puts one of the country’s most visited Wilderness Areas in danger of permanent pollution from a proposed sulfide-ore copper-nickel mine.​

Senate Votes to Strip Minnesota’s Boundary Waters of Protection from Mining Pollution Earthjustice weighs legal options to stop Chilean-owned Twin Metals mine

"This fight is far from over,” said Julie Goodwin, Senior Attorney at Earthjustice. “Every option is on the table to preserve this special wilderness for future generations to enjoy.”​

BREAKING: The Senate voted to strip away protections from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, putting the beloved Wilderness Area in danger of permanent pollution from toxic mining. ​

Corporate polluters and their congressional allies are using an arcane law to sell out our public lands.

Data center executives fret over the industry's increasingly toxic public image Data center development has boomed but communities and politicians are pushing back. Sinking sentiment imperils trillions of dollars of development.

"Folks are calling electricity prices like the new price of eggs," said Christie Hicks, an attorney at Earthjustice.

"I don't think that there's anyone who would say, yes, I would like to pay more for my electricity so that I can subsidize some of the wealthiest companies in the world."

🚨URGENT 🚨The Senate could vote strip protections from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters as soon as this afternoon. ​

Demand that your Senators protect the Boundary Waters from permanent and irreparable mining pollution. ​

​Call (202) 224-3121: Vote NO on H.J. Res. 140

A Community Takes a Data Center Colossus to Court The NAACP and Earthjustice are suing Elon Musk’s company xAI over air pollution from an unpermitted power plant in Southaven, Mississippi.

Rev. Robert Tipton Jr. and his Mississippi community are fighting pollution from a new kind of source: a fossil fuel power plant devoted to an AI data center.

There are no exceptions that would allow this major source of pollution to evade the law.​

We're partnering with @selc.bsky.social to represent the NAACP and fight for clean air for the people of Southaven, Mississippi.

BREAKING: We're suing Elon Musk’s company, xAI, for building an illegal power plant in Mississippi to fuel its data center – with no air permits and little protection for the people living around it.

How We Rallied a Big Coalition to Stop a Shady Data Center Bill The ‘Protect American AI Act’ in Congress would have exempted data centers from complying with key environmental laws.

Earlier this month, a lawmaker tried to sneak through a bill that would have allowed polluting AI data centers to evade environmental oversight and limit the public's ability to take them to court.

Right away, Earthjustice mobilized more than 130 advocacy groups in 24 hours to oppose it – and won.

Elon Musk’s company, xAI, built an illegal power plant for a Grok AI data center

xAI built an illegal power plant in Southaven, MS to power its AI data center— with no air permits, lax oversight, and little regard for nearby families. The illegal power plant is only half a mile from family homes, causing serious health concerns for residents. Earthjustice will fight this.

EPA scales back oversight on how toxic coal waste is stored Environmental advocates condemned the proposals as an affront to public health and the communities that could be exposed to pollution from nearby ash pits.

The EPA proposed a rule to gut the regulations that protect communities from the dangers of coal ash – the toxic sludge left after burning coal to produce electricity.

“For EPA to turn its back on communities near coal ash dumps is illegal & reckless,” said Earthjustice Senior Counsel Lisa Evans.

In December 2008 one billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, covering 300 acres, destroying homes, poisoning rivers and contaminating coves and residential drinking waters. (Photo courtesy of United Mountain Defense)

Happy Earth month! Yesterday, the EPA published a draft rule to effectively gut federal coal ash regulations. Coal ash is the toxic sludge that power companies have dumped in unlined pits for decades, it's leaking and contaminating water across the country. earthjustice.org/press/2026/e...

What You Need to Know About AI Data Centers Earthjustice attorneys are fighting to control their pollution and climate impacts — and your energy bill.

Communities across the country are facing new data centers and power plants in their backyards — all to power the AI boom. The unchecked buildout of data centers threatens to raise electricity rates, increases pollution, and undermine clean energy goals.

We’re Fighting to Protect the Everglades from Florida’s Illegal Detention Center Florida and the Trump administration have been ramming through the construction of an immigration detention facility within the Florida Everglades, the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisp...

Earthjustice attorneys are in court this week for arguments against the illegal immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, or "Alligator Alcatraz." Florida built the center in 2025 in the heart of the Everglades without conducting a legally-required environmental review.

‘God squad’ waives endangered species law to allow US drilling in Gulf of Mexico Critics say exemption for fossil fuels exploits White House’s ‘self-made gas crisis’, and could doom the rare Rice’s whale

We’re suing the Trump admin for greenlighting extinction in the Gulf of Mexico. The “God Squad” voted last week to allow oil and gas companies to completely ignore endangered species protections in the Gulf — an exemption that could serve as a death sentence for already imperiled species.

E&E News: Environmentalists sue to stop sweeping Gulf ESA exemption Two lawsuits were filed to block the Trump administration’s carve-out of oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico from endangered species protections.

Earthjustice is suing the Trump admin over its decision to exempt all Gulf of Mexico oil-and-gas offshore drilling from the Endangered Species Act. The exemption which leaves imperiled marine life unprotected is "unnecessary, ineffective & dangerous," said Earthjustice VP of Litigation Drew Caputo.

The Bay She Loves Is Choked with Microplastics. She’s Taking the Polluter to Court. Earthjustice is representing Diane Wilson as she joins a legal challenge to a massive plastics facility owned by Dow and Union Carbide.

Microplastics create macro problems.​

Nurdles are tiny pellets made from fossil fuels and are raw materials for plastic goods. Chemical companies spill 1 billion pounds of these nurdles every year, polluting the communities they operate in and floating out into the ocean.

We’re Suing the Trump Administration for Greenlighting Extinction in the Gulf of Mexico Whales, sea turtles, fish, rays, manatees, corals, and birds are now without protection.

WE’RE SUING: The Trump admin moved to allow oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico to ignore endangered species protections. The admin claims this will bring energy security, but Gulf communities know what unrestrained drilling will bring: devastating oil spills and destruction of ecosystems.

The ‘God Squad’ Waives Environmental Rules for Offshore Drilling

The Extinction Committee, also known as the God Squad, voted to allow oil & gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico to ignore endangered species protections. Greenlighting extinction won’t lower your gas prices. What it could do is trigger ecological destruction. We're prepared to fight back in court.

Extinction Won’t Make Anyone Safer The administration just moved to allow oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico to ignore endangered species protections.

The Extinction Committee voted to give the oil industry permission to harm and kill imperiled species across the Gulf of Mexico. Because of the committee’s vote, whales, sea turtles, fish, rays, manatees, corals, and birds are now without protection. We'll see them in court.

Federal Court Strikes Down President Trump’s Attacks Against Endangered Species Act, Restores Bedrock Environmental Law to Pre-Trump Status Ruling derails future attempts to weaken law

BREAKING: Huge win for the Endangered Species Act! A federal court struck down President Trump’s attacks against the ESA – a ruling that will derail ongoing efforts by the current Trump admin to further weaken the bedrock environmental law.

We’re Suing Trump for Weakening Rules That Protect Us From Power Plant Pollution The EPA finalized a repeal of the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, lifesaving regulations that drastically reduce toxic chemical emissions from the nation’s dirtiest power plants. We're fighting...

Earthjustice is suing Trump’s EPA over its illegal repeal of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, which limit hazardous air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants.

By scrapping MATS, EPA is giving a lifeline to some of the dirtiest power plants at the expense of public health.

Earthjustice is taking action against serial polluters who flagrantly break the law and harm people and the environment. We're prioritizing enforcement to hold companies accountable for plastic pellet pollution.

Dow Seadrift Plastics have repeatedly shown they cannot keep the plastic pellets they manufacture out of local waterways near their facility. Our planet is drowning in plastics, and it starts at manufacturing facilities. These serial polluters must be held accountable.

Nurdles don't biodegrade—they persist for decades, breaking into smaller microplastics that spread throughout ecosystems. At facilities like Dow Seadrift Plastics in Texas, plastic pellets discharged into the Victoria Barge Canal and San Antonio Bay remain a toxic threat for generations.

This means plastic pollution isn't just environmental—it's a public health crisis. When microplastics contaminate fish, toxic chemicals biomagnify up the food chain. People eating contaminated seafood face risks to reproductive, digestive, and respiratory health, including cancer.