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

First independent and in-depth report examines enforcement gaps in Syracuse’s preventative lead ordinance

Farmworker and public health groups represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to respond to a petition to ban organophosphates pesticides, a class of chemicals used on fruits, vegetables, and field crops. In utero exposures to organophosphates are linked to autism, attention deficit disorders and impaired cognition in school-age children. They also cause countless instances of farmworker and community poisonings every year.

Two-page summary fact sheet: first independent and in-depth report examines enforcement gaps in Syracuse’s preventative lead ordinance.

Pesticide overuse is driving declines in insect pollinator populations globally posing a threat to human food systems, terrestrial food webs, and global biodiversity.

Pesticide transparency enables researchers, health professionals, and others to tackle harm to humans, wildlife, and the environment

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

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.

How is the air where you live?

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

Regulators are failing to protect children from repeat exposure to the most dangerous pesticides

Terminating these programs leaves communities more vulnerable to pollution and disasters

Advocates representative of historically-excluded and marginalized communities gathered to center ocean justice ahead of World Ocean Day

Today’s final vote disregards ongoing, vocal community opposition & significant risks posed

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

Following proposed monarch listing, Earthjustice and Xerces petition EPA to upgrade risk assessment data for pesticides

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

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment. There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos.