Earthjustice is suing the administration for unlawfully terminating $3 billion in EPA grant programs designed to fund public health and community resilience initiatives
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.
Community and environmental groups represented by Earthjustice sued the Trump administration over its unlawful decision to exempt dozens of coal-fired power plants from stronger pollution limits set in the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS. The exemptions, issued in April, allow 68 coal power plants to release more mercury, arsenic, and other heavy metals known to damage children’s brain development, trigger asthma attacks, and cause cancer.
Jim Pew, Director of Federal Clean Air Practice, Earthjustice: “I just don’t see why forcing people to breathe toxic pollution for another two years is in the national security interests of the United States.”