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A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.

Agriculture Department initiates process targeting bedrock conservation policy that protects 45 million acres of national forests

EPA’s decision will allow slaughterhouses and rendering facilities to remain leading industrial dischargers of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution, which can render water unsafe for drinking, unfit for outdoor recreation, and uninhabitable for aquatic life

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

EPA has no valid reason to issue a rule without soliciting public comment first

The Roadless Rule has protected millions of acres of U.S. public lands for a generation

Earthjustice, on behalf of Ironbound Community Corporation, sued the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission for approving a fourth gas power plant in Newark, despite strong community opposition. The plant would be built next to the Ironbound neighborhood, which is already crowded with smokestacks, diesel trucks, and power plants.

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.

Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forest

A coalition of nonprofits, Tribes, and local governments sued the Trump administration for unlawfully terminating the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental and Climate Justice (ECJ) Grant programs despite a Congressional directive to fund them.

This action seeks to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) policy, pattern, and practice of unlawfully terminating hundreds of grants issued to nonprofit organizations, farmers, ranchers, universities, cities, and states.

Giving the oil and gas industry a pass on compliance is bad for our health, environment, and wallets

It is past time to address the crisis of PFAS-contaminated farmland. EPA must promptly finalize its risk assessment for PFOA and PFOS in sewage sludge, publish appropriate regulations, and begin evaluating risks associated with other PFAS chemicals in sludge.

Southern California standard is nation’s first to advance zero-emissions industrial boilers, cutting smog-forming pollution by a staggering 5.6 tons per day

The Roadless Rule has protected 58 million acres of our wildest national forest lands from clearcutting for more than a generation.