Americans enjoy some of the most robust environmental protections in the world, striking a difficult balance among environmental preservation, technological innovation and infrastructure development needed to grow the economy.

Lawsuits can tie up infrastructure and energy projects for years, all the while costing huge sums. While organizations and individuals are free to undertake litigation as they deem fit, the situation becomes more ponderous when those organizations are also funded using taxpayer dollars. Taxpayers then end up paying for litigation against the government they are also funding.

Open the Books investigated legal actions filed under various environmental policy laws to determine which organizations were suing the federal government the most during the Biden administration and the first Trump administration (2017-2024).

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