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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 19h
Weather forecasters depend on the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)’s work to predict storms and warn communities if they need to evacuate. ​ With the Trump admin dismantling NCAR, people will have less time to prepare for extreme weather. We’re demanding answers and transparency.​
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Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GOOD NEWS: LA Metro just approved the purchase of 220 non-polluting electric buses. This is the second largest electric transit bus purchase in the nation. earthjustice.org/press/2026/l...
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LA Metro Approves Purchase of 220 Non-Polluting Electric Buses
Landmark investment is second largest electric transit bus purchase in the nation
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 28/09/2026
You deserve to know how proposed corporate and government projects would impact your health and quality of life—but that right is under threat. We’re fighting back.
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How Your Right to Know about Polluting Projects is Under Attack
Americans’ power to weigh in on projects planned for their communities is being quietly whittled away. We’re fighting back and need your help.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 24/09/2026
Every community deserves to breathe clean air. But Trump's EPA continues to abandon its duty to protect public health, offering handouts to industrial polluters and AI data centers.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 23/09/2026
​Trump's EPA just gave fossil-fueled power plants a free pass on climate pollution. Now, they're trying to strip the government's authority to rein in climate pollution from power plants in the future. Speak up for climate protections today⬇️
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Tell the EPA not to walk away from its responsibility on climate
For over a decade, the Endangerment Finding has allowed the EPA to begin tackling climate pollution. That progress is now at risk.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 23/09/2026
The Trump admin's latest attack on endangered species is a memo saying that as long as you claim you didn’t mean to kill an endangered species, the law can’t and won’t stop you. It’s an absurd and illegal misreading of the Endangered Species Act. The @nytimes.com ’s The Daily podcast breaks it down.
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The Trump Administration Defangs the Endangered Species Act
A new interpretation of the law would mean that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, would be illegal.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 22/09/2026
Clean energy is the cheapest and fastest way to meet rising electricity demand, but the Trump admin is choosing to prop up expensive, polluting fossil fuels instead. ​ Earthjustice is fighting to keep us on a path toward a cleaner, more affordable energy future.​
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3 Ways We're Keeping Trump from Raising Electricity Bills Further
Earthjustice has won some key victories, including the first court case challenging the Trump administration’s abuse of emergency powers for coal.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 21/09/2026
Forests on our public lands are under attack. The U.S. Forest Service took action to rescind the Roadless Rule, one of the most important land and forest protection measures of our lifetime, but we have a chance to stop them. There's a public comment period open now until October 6. Take action! ⬇️​
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Protect forests from massive expansion of logging
Protect forests from massive expansion of logging
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 18/09/2026
Pelika Andrade has spent nearly 20 years protecting Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The Trump admin’s plan to allow commercial fishing there could undo it all. Commercial fishing threatens the ocean ecosystem that has sustained Native Hawaiian communities for centuries.
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The Pacific Ocean Fed Her Community for Generations. Now It's Under Attack by the Trump Administration
Pelika Andrade has spent nearly 20 years protecting Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Trump’s plan to allow commercial fishing there could undo it all.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 18/09/2026
Another disturbing development in the Trump administration’s attacks on the Endangered Species Act. This report from the New York Times reveals that an internal memo subverts the law by making it OK to kill endangered species – as long as it wasn't intentional. We'll see them in court.
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 17/09/2026
Good News! Earthjustice and others organized to demand that the U.S. Forest Service extend the comment period on the rollback to end the Roadless Rule, and it worked. The new deadline to speak up for national forests and register opposition to this rollback is Oct. 6.​
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 16/09/2026
Pilots depend on data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to avoid turbulence. But the Trump administration wants to dismantle it. Earthjustice is fighting back to protect climate science and your next flight.​
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Airplane Turbulence May Worsen Thanks to Trump
Pilots depend on climate data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to fly. The government wants to dismantle it.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 15/09/2026
Trump's EPA is giving power plants a free pass on climate pollution, while undermining the government's authority to act. The move comes after its repeal of the endangerment finding for vehicles, which we're currently challenging in court.​
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Trump’s EPA Rolled Back the ‘Endangerment Finding.’ We’re Taking Them to Court.
The EPA revoked the finding that greenhouses gases threaten public health and welfare, then weakened emissions standards for vehicles. Now, it’s doing the same for power plants.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is giving power plants a free pass to pollute while also trying to undermine the government's authority to act in the future. Power plants are the largest industrial source of carbon pollution in the U.S.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 14/09/2026
The AI data center boom is expected to be mostly powered by gas-fired power plants, putting our health at risk.​ Air pollution from gas-fired power plants for data centers is projected to contribute to roughly 600,000 asthma symptom cases and 1,300 premature deaths by 2028.​
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A.I. Boom Poses Growing Public Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn (Gift Article)
Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 14/09/2026
Good News: A Montana judge has temporarily blocked the Trump admin’s plans to remove more than 900 bison from federal land in Montana. Bison belong in the prairie and we’ll continue fighting to ensure the species can remain on public lands across the country.
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Judge Blocks Trump Admin Effort to Evict Hundreds of Bison From Public Land
The temporary restraining order marked a major victory for American Prairie, which has spent more than 20 years restoring buffalo in Montana.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 11/09/2026
Good news: A court ruled against the Trump administration’s abuse of emergency powers when it forced an aged-out coal plant to continue operating past its planned retirement.
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Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running (Gift Article)
The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 11/09/2026
Today, 60 days after the Trump admin signed proclamations that drastically reduced the sizes of both Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, approximately 2.9 million acres of the land removed is now available for new mining claims. We’re fighting back in court.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 11/09/2026
A new poll shows that two-thirds of Utah voters support restoring protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. We’re in court challenging the Trump admin’s latest attempt to decimate the beloved monuments.
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Utahns Support Protecting National Monuments That Trump Downsized - Inside Climate News
New polling shows that two-thirds of registered voters in Utah support restoring protections for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: We're suing the Trump admin for withholding records about its plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research. ​ This is about transparency. The American people deserve to know the admin's rationale behind any effort to dismantle this critical hub for climate research.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 09/09/2026
Good News: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered a new review of the Line 5 oil tunnel permits that Enbridge secured in July to construct its proposed tunnel below the Straits of Mackinac.​ This comes after Tribal Nations and water protectors walked across Mackinac Bridge to protest Line 5.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 09/09/2026
The Trump administration's attack on the Roadless Area Conservation Rule is a top-down attack on a rule that was created from the ground-up.​ People like you helped create the Roadless Rule, and now we need a million people to help to defend it. ​Take action ⬇️
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Protect forests from massive expansion of logging
Protect forests from massive expansion of logging
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 08/09/2026
Earthjustice is involved in legal action to stop the Trump admin’s illegal border barrier from tearing through Big Bend National Park. This is the latest in a series of actions the admin has taken to undermine the law in ways that harm protected landscapes, waterways, wildlife, and communities.
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We're Defending Big Bend from Trump's Border Barrier
The administration ignored environmental impacts and laws to build their barrier.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 04/09/2026
Good news! The California Legislature passed the Home Energy Choice Act. This bill gives homeowners the option to purchase non-polluting appliances with the help of funds their gas utility would have spent replacing the gas line to their home. Now it’s ready for @governor.ca.gov’s signature🖊️
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 03/09/2026
When the first Trump administration tried to revoke protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, Earthjustice challenged the illegal action in court. We just took action again, challenging Trump's latest attempt to decimate the beloved monuments.​
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Earthjustice Sues Trump Admin Over Illegal Move to Slash National Monuments by Nearly 3 Million Acres
The administration is targeting Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, attempting to shrink both monuments to less than 10% of their current size.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 02/09/2026
We're suing the Trump admin to protect Grand Staircase Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments.​ This attack on our public lands is an attack “not just on the Antiquities Act, but on the nation’s rich cultural and natural heritage,” said Earthjustice Managing Attorney Heidi McIntosh. ​
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 01/09/2026
The Trump admin says its reversal of the Roadless Rule is about wildfire prevention, but research shows that wildfires are about 4x more likely to start near roads than in roadless forests. ​ The repeal of the Roadless Rule is about opening protected lands to extractive industries like logging.​
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Conservationists Say Trump Gutting of Roadless Rule Is Corporate Giveaway, Not Wildfire Prevention | Common Dreams
Trump has cleared the way for 45 million acres of protected forest to be opened for logging in what one conservationist group called the "largest evisceration of public lands protection in American hi...
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 31/08/2026
In another attack on public lands, the Trump administration proposed rolling back the Roadless Rule. The repeal would “jeopardize water quality, wildlife, and backcountry recreational opportunities," explains Earthjustice attorney Jenny Harbine.
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Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development
The proposal would repeal the roadless rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: The Line 5 oil pipeline is leaking massive amounts of natural gas liquids near Saxon, WI. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa warned WI & the US Army Corps not to trust Enbridge with pumping oil & gas through watersheds like the Bad River. Enbridge must be held accountable.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 28/08/2026
The Trump administration is taking steps to repeal the Roadless Rule, citing wildfire risk as a concern. But the truth is that wildfires are four-times more likely to start near roads. Roadless forests also help protect wildlife, drinking water, and climate resilience.
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Map shows forests in potential danger as Trump admin scraps roadless rule
The Trump administration is moving to repeal the Roadless Rule, a 25-year-old conservation policy covering more than 44 million acres of national forest.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 27/08/2026
Building border barriers in Big Bend National Park threatens to destroy the landscape, disrupt wildlife migration, and deplete scarce groundwater. We're working with a broad coalition of environmental, conservation, and civil rights allies to stop it.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 26/08/2026
​Despite its overwhelming popularity with Americans, the Trump admin has proposed rolling back the Roadless Rule, stripping away protections against logging & roadbuilding in undeveloped public forest lands. ​ The public has until Sept 21 to weigh in & we need to gather 1 million public comments.
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How Trump and His Allies Are Attacking America’s Forests
The Trump admin and Congress are trying to gut our national forest protections for the benefit of loggers, drillers, and miners. We're fighting back to defend our iconic public lands — and you can hel...
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 25/08/2026
"We should pay more attention. We're just mistreating Mother Nature—that's like being ugly to your mama." Thank you, Dolly, for a lifetime of wisdom and joy.
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What Dolly Parton wants us to know about the Smoky Mountains
From her Tennessee mountain home, the nature-loving singer says mistreating Earth is like ‘being ugly to your mama.’
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 25/08/2026
The Endangered Species Act is the best tool we have to protect vulnerable plant and animal species. We know it works; it has a 99% success rate. ​ But instead of protecting our wildlife, the Trump admin is dismantling vital Endangered Species Act protections. Earthjustice is fighting back in court.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 21/08/2026
​The Trump administration has proposed a rollback of the Roadless Rule, which has kept our wildest forests intact for 25 years, a move that could pave the way for a major increase in industrial logging. ​ Now, the public has a chance to weigh in before the rollback is finalized.
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The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands
These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 20/08/2026
The Trump administration wants to roll back the Roadless Rule, which protects forests that are essential habitat for wildlife and critical to buffer climate change and prevent wildfires. ​ The public has a very short comment period to weigh in, and we need as many people as possible to act.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 19/08/2026
The Trump admin is taking steps to roll back the Roadless Rule, which currently protects tens of millions of acres of our public lands from logging. ​ The Roadless Rule "is the most important land protection measure of the last 60 years," explains Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation at Earthjustice.
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Trump administration moves to open untouched national forests to logging
The end of "roadless rule" protections would open millions of acres of pristine forests to commercial use. Supporters say it will lead to better managed forests.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 19/08/2026
AI data centers' gas turbines and backup diesel generators are polluting the air in our communities. But instead of protecting us, the Trump administration is using the AI boom as justification to gut pollution controls and the Clean Air Act. Tell the EPA to protect our air ⬇️
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AI data centers are trying to avoid accountability
Tell the EPA you oppose its proposed rule that would allow AI data centers’ backup generators to avoid clean air rules and keep communities in the dark.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 18/08/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration just took action to roll back the Roadless Rule and gut protections that have safeguarded forests for over 25 years—a move that would benefit the timber industry through unchecked logging.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 18/08/2026
​BREAKING: We're suing the Trump admin to stop deep-sea mining around American Samoa. Earthjustice is representing Faʻasao Amerika Samoa and Conservation Council for Hawaiʻi to fight against deep-sea mining, which could cause irreversible biodiversity loss and habitat destruction.​
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 17/08/2026
Most Americans do not want AI data centers where they live, and communities from California to Virginia are fighting back. A recent poll found that 71% of Americans oppose data centers in their communities.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 17/08/2026
In a win for marine species, the Army Corps has halted work on a sand dredging project near Port Everglades, FL. The decision comes less than a week after enviro groups, represented by Earthjustice, asked a judge to stop construction until the project's impacts on wildlife can be reassessed.
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Army Corps halts work on giant 'sand trap' near Port Everglades after finding damaged coral
In a court filing this week, the Army Corps project manager said the work had damaged nearby endangered staghorn coral, meeting or exceeding what was allowed under the permit.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 13/08/2026
Puerto Rico has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild its electric grid. Billions in federal recovery funds should power resilient, community-based solar and storage, not lock the island into more coal, gas, and costly fuel imports.
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Puerto Rico’s Grid Money Could Be a Blessing. Instead, It Risks Becoming a Curse.
Federal recovery funds are supporting coal and gas, deepening the island's dependence on imported fuel.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 13/08/2026
The NAACP sued xAI for building an illegal power plant, but the Trump admin is arguing it should be able to veto citizen suits.​ The government usually gets involved in cases to enforce the law, not to argue that it doesn’t matter if the law is broken, says Laura Thoms, our Director of Enforcement.
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A pillar of environmental enforcement is targeted by Trump and Musk's AI company
Right-leaning legal activists and Elon Musk's AI company are challenging the right of private groups to sue to enforce several major laws.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 12/08/2026
Good news: California is taking a leap forward by rejecting paraquat-based pesticides. Paraquat has been linked to Parkinson’s disease in farmworkers & agricultural communities. This action protects communities & wildlife & lays the foundation for safer, more sustainable pest management practices.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 12/08/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration just held another massive sell-off of public waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The lease sale could lead to drilling that threatens numerous species, like whales and sea turtles, especially after the admin rolled back key environmental protections.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 11/08/2026
Good news: Montana’s Dept of Environmental Quality (DEQ) reversed its decision to approve an illegal waiver for a controversial pipeline. “...DEQ was right to reverse course. But we are troubled by why DEQ decided to issue these waivers in the first place,” says attorney Lars Phillips.
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In Montana, a controversial $2B pipeline hits a speed bump
After an environmental group filed a complaint on behalf of two Montana residents, state regulators rescinded a crucial waiver.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 10/08/2026
Thanks to Tribal stewardship, efforts from conservation organizations, and improvements in state and federal bison policy, hundreds of bison now thrive in their native Montana range. But now, bison restoration to the prairie is under attack by the Trump administration. Speak up for bison today.​
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Protect American bison’s right to graze on public lands
Earthjustice has defended bison in court for decades, and today we need your help to keep up the fight.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 06/08/2026
Grizzly bears need our help. ​ The Trump admin is proposing to hand over significant management of grizzly bears to hostile Northern Rockies states, making it easier for them to relocate or kill grizzly bears. The public comment period is open now. Speak up for grizzlies⬇️
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The Trump Administration Proposes Handing Grizzly Management to States Hostile to the Bears
Under the proposed rule, states would gain significant new authority to relocate or kill grizzly bears.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 05/08/2026
When shrinking Bears Ears National Monument, the Trump admin claimed that recreation at the site was impossible. ​ In a NY times story, Steve Bloch with Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance notes the admin was “lying or spreading misinformation about these fantastic public lands” to justify its cuts.​
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Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Bears Ears National Monument
President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.
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