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It is past time to address the crisis of PFAS-contaminated farmland. EPA must promptly finalize its risk assessment for PFOA and PFOS in sewage sludge, publish appropriate regulations, and begin evaluating risks associated with other PFAS chemicals in sludge.

Letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning the Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment for PFOA and PFOS, urging EPA to finalize the risk assessment and regulate PFOA and PFOS in sewage sludge.

Let’s celebrate this year’s environmental victories, plan to continue our work in the Columbia Basin — and prepare for next year!

This is a landmark success in applying federal civil rights laws to environmental racism.

Residents’ homes, streets, damaged by raw sewage for decades

Letter urging immediate steps to protect the people of Pennsylvania from being exposed to the harmful chemicals contained in sewage sludge by instructing the Department of Environmental Protection to begin a comprehensive analysis and assessment of sludge disposal in the state that accounts for its “beneficial use” program allowing for the disposal of over 130,000 dry tons of sludge every year on farmlands around the state, where it is having a detrimental impact on communities and surrounding waterways and airways.

Hawai’i County must comply with the Clean Water Act to prevent discharged wastewater from contaminating Honokōhau Harbor

Construction has caused multiple drilling fluid spills in the refuge; pipeline being built to attract business to mega industrial site next to Nation territory

Decision upholds Puget Sound ‘No Discharge Zone,’ keeping ship & boat sewage out of water, key step toward restoring one of nation’s most important inland seas

Raw sewage flows into their homes and yards

Raw sewage flows into their homes and yards

The community group Centreville Citizens for Change (represented by Earthjustice) and more than two dozen residents (represented by Equity Legal Services and the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council) sued Commonfields of Cahokia Public Water District and the City of Cahokia Heights in federal court, in response to years of raw sewage pollution…

Environmental group seeks court-ordered deadline for sewage treatment improvements

The Puget Soundkeeper victory is critical first step to address long-standing pollution from municipal wastewater that degrade water quality in Puget Sound

Imagine routinely shoveling away piles of sewage and toilet paper from your yard after it rains. Such is the plight of African-American residents in Rochelle, GA, courtesy their own city government. Earthjustice is working to end this atrocity.

Friends of the Earth, represented by Earthjustice, have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking more effective regulation of sewage discharges from cruise ships and other vessels in U.S. waters. Cruise ships alone dumped more than 1 billion gallons of sewage in the ocean in 2013, much of it poorly treated. In addition, tens of…

The agencies endangered the public by failing to investigate an outbreak of hookworm

The settlement resolves a Clean Water Act lawsuit filed in 2023 by Earthjustice on behalf of community group Hui Mālama Honokōhau