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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.

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.

North Denver community members, Lissa Leticia de Gonzales, Jose Molina and Lucy Molina, left to right, near the Suncor Refinery, which is heavily polluting their neighborhoods. (Carmel Zucker for Earthjustice)
feature July 3, 2025

Healthy Communities Program Report

The progress we have secured is a testament to the fact that the law and science are on our side. It also reflects the desire of most people across the country for a safer and cleaner world. Our shared wins represent decades of painstaking work, culminating in concrete measures that will save lives across the country. We’re celebrating our victories and the many opportunities ahead.

document June 26, 2025

About the Interactive Colorado Warehouse Map

The Colorado Warehouse Map provides a helpful visual of warehouse concentration throughout the state and within the Denver Metro North Front Range Ozone Nonattainment Area.

A beaver lodge in the Sunset Roadless Area. The area is home to species including elk, bear, beaver and goshawk.
(Ted Zukoski / Earthjustice)
feature June 23, 2025

Timeline of the Roadless Rule

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

Sunlight breaks through the lush understory of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. (Carlos Rojas / Getty Images)
Press Release June 23, 2025

Tongass Defenders Blast the Trump Administration’s Rollback of Roadless Rule Protections on America’s Largest Forest

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

More than 100,000 Native American archaeological and cultural sites, some dating to 12,000 B.C., are protected in Bears Ears National Monument. (Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
feature April 24, 2025

What You Should Know About the Antiquities Act and National Monuments

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

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.

The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature April 21, 2025

The Intermountain West: Regional Spotlight

Our teams in Bozeman, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, have spent decades fighting to safeguard biodiversity, to advance a just transition to clean energy, and to protect people’s health. We’re pleased to share highlights of our progress, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Uinta Basin in northeast Utah.
(Photo courtesy of Jared Hargrave)
Update May 29, 2025

The Supreme Court Just Weakened a Bedrock Environmental Law

We will continue standing up for the principle that the government must consider predictable environmental harms before it acts.

A lone wolf howls across hills and valleys in the upper Midwest. (Jerry & Barb Jividen / Getty Images)
Press Release January 8, 2025

Colorado Rejects Livestock Industry Attempt to Stop Wolf Reintroduction

Livestock groups’ concerns and requested management changes were already addressed

A gray wolf howls in the woods of the the upper Midwest. (Jerry & Barb Jividen / Getty Images)
Press Release December 18, 2024

On Anniversary of Reintroduction, Colorado Urged to Proceed with 2025 Wolf Releases

Conservation groups ask Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to reject livestock industry petition

In the News: Colorado Newsline April 17, 2025

Environmental groups warn Colorado lawmakers of risks from data center bill

Megan Kemp, Colorado Policy Advocate, Rocky Mountain Office: “(The bill) fails to provide critical safeguards for utility customers, neglects to consider impacts on communities and undermines our progress toward meeting critical climate goals.”

The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature May 7, 2025

Biodiversity and Ecosystems Program Report

Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Fachada de la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. (Gabriella Demczuk / Getty Images)
Press Release May 30, 2025

Fallo de la Corte Suprema Limita Tareas Vitales de La Ley Nacional de Política Ambiental

El supremo anula método de 50 años de antigüedad para la aprobación gubernamental de proyectos potencialmente dañinos

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Gabriella Demczuk / Getty Images)
Press Release May 29, 2025

Supreme Court Limits Scope of Nation’s Bedrock Environmental Law

Court sweeps aside 50-year-old method for government approvals of potentially harmful projects

Heat pumps line the rooftop of an apartment building. Heat pumps provide both heating and cooling while using significantly less energy compared with other technologies. (alacatr / Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory January 22, 2025

Colorado PUC Approves Black Hills Clean Heat Plan, Mandates Statewide Beneficial Electrification

Landmark decision approves portfolio of resources focused on energy efficiency and beneficial electrification

Known to frequent the waters of Puget Sound, southern resident killer whales are among the many kinds of imperiled wildlife protected by the Endangered Species Act.
(Miles Ritter / CC BY-SA 2.0)
Press Release May 19, 2025

Over 150,000 Americans Oppose Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Effort to Eliminate Habitat Protections for Vulnerable Wildlife

Scientists, legal experts, and environmental groups also urge Trump administration to drop proposed rule