Fall 2025 Earthjustice Program Report

The Fall 2025 Earthjustice Program Report details the organization's legal efforts across 700 matters to protect biodiversity, public health, and the climate. Key activities include challenging the Trump administration on environmental reviews for detention centers and marine monuments, fighting the repeal of the Roadless Rule, and pursuing clean energy transitions through state legislation and the opposition of high-risk offshore drilling.

• Earthjustice is currently managing 700 legal matters to protect the environment and people, supported by a staff of 220 attorneys and various policy and communications experts.
• The organization has engaged in several legal battles against the Trump administration in 2025, including a successful effort to nullify a National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) letter that would have opened the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. Additionally, Earthjustice secured a court order in August 2025 to halt operations at an immigration detention center in the Big Cypress National Preserve, though an appeals court later paused this order.
• Earthjustice is defending the Roadless Rule, which prevents most logging and road building in federally managed forests like Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, following the administration's August 2025 move to begin the repeal process. This effort is supported by at least 500,000 public comments opposing the repeal.
• The organization has achieved international biodiversity wins, including a 10-year agreement for science-based fishery closures around six African penguin breeding colonies in South Africa and a court ruling in August 2025 regarding the Māui dolphin in New Zealand, which puts New Zealand fisheries at risk of losing U.S. market access for failing to meet marine mammal protection standards.
• In the realm of public health and clean energy, Earthjustice contributed to the indefinite pause of a Denka neoprene facility in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, in May 2025, and successfully blocked a barge facility permit near the San Jacinto River Waste Pits in Texas in April 2025. In August 2025, it helped draft a law in Illinois banning carbon sequestration in the Mahomet Aquifer. Furthermore, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management rejected BP's 'Kaskida' offshore oil project in late August due to legal and safety failures.

APA

Earthjustice (2025). Fall 2025 Earthjustice Program Report. https://earthjustice.org/feature/program-report-fall-2025

Chicago

Earthjustice. Fall 2025 Earthjustice Program Report. 2025. https://earthjustice.org/feature/program-report-fall-2025.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{earthjustice2025fall, author = {{Earthjustice}}, title = {{Fall 2025 Earthjustice Program Report}}, institution = {Earthjustice}, year = {2025}, month = nov, url = {https://earthjustice.org/feature/program-report-fall-2025}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }