Eve Gartner

Director, Crosscutting Toxics Strategies

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Eve Gartner

Director, Crosscutting Toxics Strategies

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Eve Gartner is the Director of Crosscutting Toxics Strategies at Earthjustice. She works within Earthjustice as well as with advocates, community groups, and scientists around the country to develop and implement litigation, administrative, and legislative advocacy strategies to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals and eliminate cumulative impacts in environmental justice communities.

Eve is a member of Project TENDR, a collaboration of scientists, health professionals, and children’s health advocates working to develop policy approaches to address the link between environmental exposure and neurodevelopmental disorders, and serves on the board of the New York City Environmental Law Leadership Institute.

Prior to joining Earthjustice, Eve advocated for reproductive justice as the deputy director for litigation at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and at the Center for Reproductive Rights. She is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and clerked for Judge Truman Hobbs in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

Expert Posts & Articles

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October 10, 2023

Prevención del Envenenamiento Por Plomo: ¿Estamos en el Camino Correcto?

Se han alcanzado avances prometedores a pesar de algunos obstáculos.
Peeling paint in an old building.
October 10, 2023

Lead poisoning prevention: Are we on the right track?

As we approach lead poisoning prevention week Oct. 22-28, developments are promising despite some stumbling blocks.
Close-up photo of hands scraping old paint from a window frame.
August 31, 2020

A Guide for Protecting Our Children from Lead Poisoning

Earthjustice's Better Lead Policy toolkit offers three key practices for eliminating lead poisoning hazards before children are harmed.
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April 7, 2016

Weak Laws and Weaker Governance Keep Toxic Chemicals on the Market

Even if advocates succeed in reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act, the EPA will have to step up to the plate to make sure the law is enforced.
97% of U.S. residents are at a greater risk of harm from toxic flame retardants in their bodies.
April 16, 2015

Coalition Seeks Ban on Flame Retardants

Health, firefighter, consumer and science groups are calling on the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban certain consumer products if they contain any organohalogen flame retardants—a class of chemicals that counts dioxins and the pesticide DDT among its ranks.
Farmworkers picking cauliflower in Salinas, California in June 2014.
April 2, 2015

Strengthen Protections for Those Who Help Grow Our Food

We live in one of the richest nations on earth, but nearly 3 million agricultural workers who cultivate and harvest our food lack the basic protections they need to keep themselves and their families safe from harmful pesticides.

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January 30, 2025

Poughkeepsie Journal

NY lead registry aims to protect renters

“It’s a big opportunity, and it's important to get it right from the outset.”
January 28, 2025

Salon

After a disaster, communities can be at risk for toxic exposures. Do residents know that?

“The laws are not set up to deal with climate-related disasters.”
July 10, 2024

Post & Courier

‘Forever chemical’ polluters land hefty contracts to meet electric vehicle battery demand

“It’ll take centuries before there’s enough data to figure out how dangerous each PFAS is.”
January 1, 2024

Inside Climate News

Washington Law Attempts to Fill the Void in Federal Regulation of Hazardous Chemicals

“We assume that somebody’s verifying the safety [of these chemicals], and that’s really not true. Very few toxic substances have been tested and even chemicals that we know are dangerous are not banned in this country.”
March 22, 2023

Grist

The Ground Beneath Their Feet

“Communities around the country are suffering lead exposure from soil because EPA has dropped the ball for decades.”
November 1, 2021

The Intercept

EPA Withheld Reports of Substantial Risk Posed by 1,240 Chemicals

“It is not easy to keep selling your chemicals when people know they likely cause cancer or other serious disease.”

Latest Press Statements

July 24, 2024

EPA Proposes Designating Vinyl Chloride as a High-Priority Chemical 40 Years After It Was Declared Cancerous

New report calls on EPA to conduct comprehensive chemical review
A sign, placed by the EPA, warns people not to play on the lawn at the West Calumet Housing Complex on April 19, 2017, in East Chicago, Indiana. Nearly all the residents of the complex were ordered to move by the East Chicago Housing Authority after the s
January 17, 2024

Earthjustice Applauds New EPA Actions Lowering Screening Levels and Strengthening Guidance for Investigating and Cleaning Up Lead-Contaminated Soil in Residential Areas

Under new guidance regarding hazardous sites, the current screening standard of 400ppm will be reduced to 200ppm, significantly increasing the number of sites subject to cleanup.
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July 12, 2023

EPA Eyes Tighter Lead Dust Standards for Homes and Schools

Agency finally recognizes that exposure to lead at any level is hazardous