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From the Experts October 2, 2026

Monitoreo del Aire Revela Altos Niveles de una Sustancia Carcinógena en Salinas, Puerto Rico

Los hallazgos preliminares indican que los riesgos de la sustancia química persisten en las comunidades locales.
Road view of Tarague Beach and Tarague Beach detonation range on Andersen Air Force Base on Guam. (Manny Crisostomo for Earthjustice)
Update October 2, 2026

What to Know About Department of the Air Force v. Prutehi Guåhan

This Supreme Court case is about whether the U.S. military can move forward with dangerous activities without following the federal law requiring an environmental review.
A father cooks with his family on an induction stove. The building electrification movement has been gaining steam as a major climate and clean air solution. (Halfpoint Images / Getty Images)
From the Experts: Victory October 2, 2026

Go Zero and Go Home

Tantrums from the merchants of combustion won’t stop the shift to heat pumps and inductions stoves in the nation’s smog capitol.
From the Experts October 2, 2026

Air Monitoring Finds Elevated Levels of Cancer-Causing Ethylene Oxide in Salinas, Puerto Rico

Preliminary results show that the chemical's risks still persist in local communities.
Press Release October 1, 2026

New Air Monitoring Finds Elevated Levels of Cancer-Causing Ethylene Oxide in Salinas, Puerto Rico

Findings come as EPA and Steri-Tech reached a proposed agreement to address Clean Air Act violations, but local communities will remain vulnerable
Press Release October 1, 2026

California Bill Exempting Metal Shredders From Hazardous Waste Protections Becomes Law, State Must Act to Protect Frontline Communities

Communities call on state agency to protect them from toxic metal shredder waste after lawmakers provide industry with legal loophole
An inversion layer traps a low level of smog and particulates above Oakland, California on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. (Paul Chinn / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory September 30, 2026

Mandatory Environmental Review of Large Coal Projects in California To Become Law

Governor Newsom signs into law AB 40, the Community First Coal Review Act
A family cooks on an induction stove. (Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory September 30, 2026

California Passes the Home Energy Choice Act

AB 2313 gives Californians the option to install non-polluting appliances with the help of funds that would otherwise have been used to replace the old gas line to their home
From the Experts September 29, 2026

The AI Data Centers Bill Moving through Congress Lacks Ambition and Impact

A look at what the Ratepayer Protection Act does and doesn’t do.
Press Release September 28, 2026

Earthjustice Condemns Trump Administration’s Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards

At a time when households nationwide are being squeezed by rising prices, the final rule will make people pay more at the pump
IMTT tank Farm near St. Rose, Louisiana, just up the Mississippi River from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. (Satellite imagery: Google Earth, imagery dated Oct. 21, 2022 - Dec. 19, 2025)
Press Release September 28, 2026

Community Group Challenges IMTT Expansion

LDEQ air permit would allow construction of a large ammonia storage system and more than a dozen new bulk storage tanks next to communities already burdened by industrial pollution
Electric buses at their charging stations during LA Metro’s tour and presentation about their bus electrification process given to the LA County Electric Truck and Bus Coalition at the El Monte Station in El Monte, California, on August 21, 2026. (Hannah Benet for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory September 24, 2026

LA Metro Approves Purchase of 220 Non-Polluting Electric Buses

Landmark investment is second largest electric transit bus purchase in the nation
Members of the LA County Electric Truck and Bus Coalition during LA Metro’s tour and presentation about their bus electrification progress at the El Monte Station in El Monte, California, on August 21, 2026 (Hannah Benet for Earthjustice)
From the Experts September 24, 2026

LA Hid Its Smog the Last Time It Hosted the Olympics. We Have a Better Game Plan This Time

LA can become a heavyweight in modern transit as it makes more electric bus progress.
The Homer City Generating Station in Pennsylvania.
(Photo courtesy of Jon Dawson)
From the Experts September 18, 2026

EPA Guts Clean Air Rules, Enables AI Data Center Pollution

The Trump administration is threatening to cut out the public and speed the construction of AI data centers and their polluting power plants.
Article September 15, 2026

Trump’s EPA Abandoned Its Climate Responsibility. We’re Taking It to Court.

The Trump administration denies that the pollution causing climate change is their responsibility to address. We’re fighting back.
Duwamish River Community Coalition Clean Air Program Manager and Climate Policy Analyst, Mia Ayala-Marshall, speaks during a protest in front of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency as they fight a permit modification proposal that would allow the Ash Grove Cement Company to burn more tires at its facility along the Duwamish Waterway in Seattle on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (Jason Redmond for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory September 9, 2026

Community Voices Drive Major Win for Health Equity and Pollution Prevention in Seattle’s Duwamish River Valley

Advocacy and litigation by the Duwamish River Community Coalition and Front and Centered, plus heavy metals testing requested by the community, resulted in a victory reinstating a cap on tire…
Press Release September 9, 2026

Colorado Department of Transportation Finalizes Misguided Plan to Widen I-270

Community-supported alternatives to widening are rejected
In the News: Bloomberg Law August 31, 2026

Trump’s EPA on a Mission to Ease Air Rules by 2028: Explained

Patricia McKenna, Managing Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “No one is saying we don’t want companies to do well and manufacturing, but you can do it responsibly without putting people’s health at risk.”