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Para las personas de color, la EPA de Trump es un peligro para la salud

Activistas de Black Lives Matter en la Marcha por el Clima de los Pueblos de 2017 en Washington, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de D.C. Trump ha rechazado las políticas que protegen a las comunidades de color.

La agencia ha reducido las regulaciones que protegen a las comunidades de color de la contaminación del aire y el agua.

Judges to FDA: Government Must Pull Aside Curtain on Genetically Engineered Salmon

A judge has ordered the FDA to release withheld information related to its approval of GE salmon.

Appeals court rejects Trump administration’s attempt to withhold information from the public related to the approval of GE salmon.

In Memoriam: William Anderson

The former Moapa Band of Paiutes tribal chairman, who helped close down a coal plant that was killing people on his reservation, died Sunday at age 44.

Sigue la ‘guerra contra el carbón’ y Trump no será quien gane

La extracción de carbón de zonas montañosas destruye el paisaje y convierte regiones enteras de bosques y vida silvestre en paisajes llanos y estériles.

Contrario al discurso presidencial en el Estado de la Unión, Earthjustice defiende docenas de casos judiciales contra el poder del carbón. Y vamos ganando.

The ‘War on Coal’ Isn’t Over, and It Won’t Be Trump Who Wins It

Mountaintop removal mining devastates the landscape, turning areas that should be lush with forests and wildlife into barren moonscapes.

Contrary to the president’s State of the Union address, Earthjustice is working on dozens of court cases to put an end to coal power. And we are winning.

How One Tweak to New York’s Tax Code Could Save Forests, Cut Emissions and Help Rural Communities

In New York, home to these Autumn trees, a novel state tax reform proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo taps into a little-known but powerful climate opportunity — the carbon-soaking power of agricultural and forest land.

New York State has an opportunity to show how climate change can be fought through agriculture by incentivizing farmers and forest owners to sustainably manage trees that sequester CO2.

We’re Fighting to Keep Coal out of a Kentucky Lake

Coal ash pollution keeps Kentucky college professor Brett Werner from fishing in the lake near his home. Earthjustice is suing Kentucky Utilities to compel it to clean up the 6 million cubic yards of buried coal ash that are contaminating the lake's groun

Represented by their lawyers at Earthjustice, Kentucky Waterways Alliance and Sierra Club just filed an appeal to force Kentucky Utilities to clean up toxic coal ash pollution in Herrington Lake.

Trump puede redoblar su ofensiva en el 2018. Nosotros también.

Amanece en Cedar Mesa, al sureste de Utah, en el Monumento Nacional Bears Ears. Bears Ears es uno de los monumentos nacionales que Earthjustice lucha para conservar.

Con más abogados industriales y lobbies dirigiendo agencias federales habrá más ataques contra las protecciones ambientales. Pero no estaremos solo a la defensiva, iremos a cualquier lugar donde se pueda avanzar, sin descartar ningún estado y de manera internacional.

How Two Women Teamed Up to Take on the Chemical Industry—and Won

Earthjustice attorney Eve Gartner (left) and scientist Arlene Blum (right) joined forces in 2011 to get flame retardant chemicals out of furniture. The coalition they built compelled federal regulators to call for banning an entire class of flame retardan

Earthjustice attorney Eve Gartner and scientist Arlene Blum worked together to convince the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban an entire class of toxic flame retardants.