Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California July 2, 2026, affirming the district court’s grant of summary judgment to South Coast Air Quality Management…
Sierra Club, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Center for Biological Diversity challenge the City of Barstow's approval of Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Barstow…
A coalition of health and environmental organizations submitted comments — in addition to tens of thousands of individual public comments — urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its…
Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation for Healthy Communities: “Clean air is not a luxury. The 2024 soot standard is a critical advancement for public health, projected to save thousands of lives every year.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the national, health-based limit on fine particulate matter (PM2.5), also known as soot, that the Environmental Protection Agency strengthened in…
Polls show that commanding majorities of voters support legislation that would offer California homeowners the opportunity to upgrade their home appliances to electric when their utility company is scheduled to…
Laura Thoms, Director of Enforcement: “There is no moral or legal precedent for this. This isn’t about national security; it’s a desperate attempt to protect wealthy tech companies from obeying the laws meant to protect people from pollution.”
