A 15-year legal fight to curb toxic wastewater to protect drinking water.

When companies burn coal in the U.S., significant amounts of mercury spew into our air. Now, that mercury is controlled, thanks to a federal rule that Earthjustice and our clients fought for, defended, and successfully expanded.

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

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

Falls short on climate; restores critical funding for water infrastructure

Applied Energy Services continúa contaminando el aire, el suelo y el agua en Puerto Rico con cenizas de carbón tóxicas.

Assembly kills NY HEAT Act in final budget deal, the leading policy to address energy affordability and climate change

The petition asks EPA to regulate PFAS created that leach from more than 100 million fluorinated plastic containers into household products and the environment

Stronger standards would prevent hundreds of millions of pounds of pollution from reaching rivers and streams, helping to protect more than 22 million people

What PFAS are, why they’re harmful, and what we can do to protect ourselves from them

The updates will reduce more than 6,000 tons of the nation’s most harmful air pollution, including the carcinogens ethylene oxide and chloroprene

Las actualizaciones reducirán más de 6 mil toneladas de la contaminación del aire más dañina del país, incluidos carcinógenos como el óxido de etileno y el cloropreno

California leads the nation in securing emissions reductions in the transportation sector.

Earthjustice’s work is supported and guided by our Board of Trustees.

Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “This is the most right-wing court we’ve seen in almost a century, and that’s emboldening conservative legal activists to swing for the fences with legal claims that would have been laughable just a few years ago. The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.”

Nearly 14 million people in the US live near facilities that emit one of the most toxic air pollutants regulated by the agency

NYS Senate’s and Assembly’s Budget Bills restore clean water funding; Senate champions bold climate policies

Paraquat damages farmworkers’ respiratory system, their kidneys, and their eyes. Help us urge the EPA to ban it.