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Document February 2, 2018

Chemical Disasters Final Opening Brief 01-31-2018

Opening brief challenging the EPA delay of the Chemical Disaster Rule.

Document February 2, 2018

Final Reply Brief Chemical Disaster Rule Delay

Final reply brief on behalf of a coalition of workers, scientists and community members near oil refineries and chemical facilities, to challenge the illegal delay of the Chemical Disaster Rule protections.

Document August 2, 2017

Coalition Comments on Colorado's Suncor Refinery

The Suncor refinery in the Denver-metro area is one of the largest sources of air pollution. Earthjustice working with numerous local organizations have submitted comments on a series of permit modifications that could further increase the pollution burden in the surrounding communities.

A child suffering from asthma.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release July 12, 2017

Health and Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Its Delay of Clean Air Protections for Millions

EPA’s action puts people’s health and lives at risk

Matthew Elliot of the California Nurses Association rallied outside the EPA's hearing in Sacramento, CA, on February 2, 2015. The nurses joined concerned community members to call for an ozone pollution standard of 60 parts-per-billion to improve the quality of the air we all breathe.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release June 7, 2017

EPA Announces Illegal Delay for Clean Air Protections for Millions

Action puts people’s health and lives at risk

Document March 22, 2017

2017 Community Letter Opposing House Attack on Ozone Standards

Over 120 health, environmental and community organizations sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives asking them to oppose the “Ozone Standards Implementation Act” (H.R. 806). If passed this legislation would systematically weaken the Clean Air Act and undermine Americans’ 46-year right to healthy air based on medical science, and delay life-saving health standards already years overdue.

Join Earthjustice, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU for a star-studded live event airing online during the presidential inauguration.
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Article January 13, 2017

Love Will Trump Hate on Inauguration Day

Join Earthjustice, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU for a star-studded live event airing online during the presidential inauguration.

A layer of smog hangs over the California city of Moreno Valley.
(Photo Courtesy of Arman Thanvir)
Article January 9, 2017

World Logistics Center: Bad for Air, Won’t Bring High-Quality Jobs

In a region that already suffers some of the worst air quality in the nation, we can expect to feel the weight of diesel soot in our lungs from the additional 14,000 truck trips that will rumble through the community every day to the World Logistics Center.

The incoming Trump administration could try to roll back recent progress toward environmental justice, but these visionary community leaders are ready to resist.
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Article December 16, 2016

Environmental Justice Leaders to Stand Strong in the Trump Era

The incoming Trump administration could try to roll back recent progress toward environmental justice, but these visionary community leaders are ready to resist.

The Port of Oakland, CA.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch/Earthjustice)
Article November 16, 2016

Port of Oakland Expansion Project Must Address Pollution

Guest contributor Margaret Gordon with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project says that vital environmental mitigation measures from the Port of Oakland could help reduce health problems for children in the region.

A cargo train passes the windmills outside of Palm Springs, Calif. The state asserts its commitment to a strong economy and a healthy environment in its new Sustainable Freight Action Plan, but it can do even more to clean up the polluting freight system.
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Article August 5, 2016

Cleaning Up California’s Dirty Freight System

California asserts its commitment to a strong economy and a healthy environment in its new Sustainable Freight Action Plan, but the state can do even more to clean up the polluting freight system.

Members of the California Nurses Association march to a rally outside the EPA's public hearing on updating ozone protections, in Sacramento, CA, on February 2, 2015.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release June 8, 2016

House of Representatives Votes to Delay Lifesaving Ozone Standard, Gut Clean Air Act

Bill attacks public health protections for smog, lead, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and other dangerous pollutants

Hilton Kelley holds an image of an oil refinery "flaring" near a community playground in Port Arthur, Texas.
(Matt Roth for Earthjustice)
Press Release February 29, 2016

Community Groups Intervene to Defend Air Pollution Controls on Oil Refineries

Broad coalition will oppose attack by the oil industry on 2015 standards

The Motiva Refinery spews cancer-causing air pollution over homes in Port Aurthur, Texas due to a malfunction in April 2013.
(Hilton Kelley)
Press Release February 1, 2016

Community and Environmental Groups Sue the EPA to Remove Refineries' “Free Pass to Pollute”

Petition and lawsuit urge EPA to strengthen protections from cancer-causing air pollution

Janet Rodriguez, a fifth grader from Oakland, Calif., wears a mask adorned with an "I Love Clean Air" logo at a rally outside of the EPA Ozone hearing in Sacramento on Feb. 2, 2015. Rodriguez was one of many youth who attended the event to advocate for clean air.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release December 22, 2015

Public Health and Environmental Groups File Suit Against Weak Smog Standard

EPA set standard at level that allows thousands more deaths, hospitalizations

Document November 24, 2015

Motion to Intervene on 2015 Ozone Standard; Murray Energy Corporation v. EPA

Earthjustice representing American Lung Association, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Physicians for Social Responsibility filed to oppose a major coal company’s challenge to stronger national ozone standards adopted last month. The EPA’s new standards were years overdue, and though they are weaker than the science-backed standards called for by medical experts, they are more protective than the standards they replaced and will help prevent many hundreds of hospital visits, asthma attacks, and deaths.

An oil refinery looms over the west side of Port Arthur, TX.
(Eric Kayne for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory September 29, 2015

Community and Environmental Groups Herald Improvements in New Oil Refinery Pollution Standards

All U.S. refineries must measure benzene in communities for the first time

Document September 15, 2015

Report: Clearing Up the Smog

Earthjustice releases a report that exposes the deeply flawed economic analysis being circulated by polluters to oppose more protective ozone standards. The findings show that industry has been exaggerating the cost of meeting stronger standards by more than 700% while ignoring major health and other benefits.