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Jennifer Hadayia, the Executive Director of Air Alliance Houston, on June 20, 2025, in Houston, Texas. (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice)
Article June 26, 2025

Our First Class Action Lawsuit Takes on Trump Administration to Get Communities the Funding They’re Owed

Earthjustice is suing the administration for unlawfully terminating $3 billion in EPA grant programs designed to fund public health and community resilience initiatives

Smog air pollution by county. <a href="https://earthjustice.org/feature/soot-smog-air-map-united-states-county">See full map.</a> (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature June 26, 2025

Mapping Soot and Smog Pollution in the United States

How is the air where you live?

Map of soot air pollution by county in 2024. (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature June 26, 2025

What’s the state of soot pollution where you live?

Search by county to see the level of soot pollution in the air. Soot causes death and serious health harms.

Smog air pollution by county. <a href="https://earthjustice.org/feature/soot-smog-air-map-united-states-county">See full map.</a> (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature June 26, 2025

What’s the state of smog pollution where you live?

Search by county to see the level of smog pollution in the air. Smog can trigger asthma attacks and increase the risk of heart and lung diseases.

Jennifer Hadayia, the Executive Director of Air Alliance Houston, on June 20, 2025, in Houston, Texas. (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 25, 2025

Nonprofits, Tribes and Local Governments Sue Trump Administration for Terminating EPA Grant Programs

Terminating these programs leaves communities more vulnerable to pollution and disasters

document June 25, 2025

Complaint against EPA terminating the Environmental and Climate Justice Grant programs

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.

Press Release June 25, 2025

EPA Sued for Allowing Nerve-Agent Pesticides on Our Fruit and Vegetables

Lawsuit pushes for ban on organophosphates after years of government delay and known harms to children

Duke’s investment in new coal-fired electric generation is imprudent and that Duke should be required to mitigate the four million tons of carbon pollution that the new plant will emit.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
video June 23, 2025

New Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Email-to-Pollute Exemption

President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin say they care about clean air, water, and food — but their actions tell a different story.

Press Release June 12, 2025

Trump and his EPA Sued for Creating Email Shortcut Around Clean Air Protections

Groups challenge unlawful order that let 68 power plants avoid mercury and arsenic limits

document June 12, 2025

Coal Plant Exemptions

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.

The 68 coal-fired power plants exempted from mercury and arsenic pollution limits span 23 states. (Source: <a href="https://www.edf.org/maps/epa-pollution-pass/" class="a_color--black">Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Integrity Project analysis of EPA data</a>)
feature June 12, 2025

Corporations Emailed. Then 68 Power Plants Got a Pass to Pollute.

Using a loophole, the Trump administration exempted coal power plants from mercury and arsenic limits, polluting the air we breathe.

Emissions from a stack at the Mitchell Power Plant, a coal powered plant, in Moundsville, West Virginia. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release June 11, 2025

Trump’s EPA Abandons Its Duty to Protect Public from Power Plant Air Pollution

EPA seeks to end limits on mercury and arsenic and climate pollution, increasing harm to communities and reversing progress on climate action

The Denka Performance Elastomer manufacturing plant in Reserve, Louisiana, on March 18, 2022. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
From the Experts: Victory May 27, 2025

In Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, a Deserved Reprieve for St. John Residents After Years of Environmental Injustice

Denka halts toxic neoprene production after years of community pressure.

Press Release May 22, 2025

Congress Lets Thousands of the Worst Polluters Turn Off Clean Air Protections

House joins Senate in CRA dismantling key Clean Air Act safeguard, harming millions

Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant. (Appalachian Voices)
From the Experts May 2, 2025

Polluters can now email their way out of clean air laws, courtesy of Trump

Trump is handing out pollution waivers, leaving millions breathing more toxic air

Press Release May 1, 2025

Senate Allows Thousands of the Worst Polluters Shut Off Clean Air Controls

Majority vote to gut core Clean Air Act protections, flooding communities with cancer-causing air pollution

(Ceci Freed / Earthjustice)
video April 2, 2025

From Our Clients: The Lawsuit Over Trump Administration’s IRA Funding Freeze

“This funding freeze is more than an administrative delay. It is actively harming the people.”

In the News: Politico April 1, 2025

Trump admin. aims to undo crackdown on cancer-causing air emissions

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.”