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La EPA retrasa normas para plantas químicas poniendo en peligro a comunidades de color

El 6 de agosto de 2012, un incendio y una explosión en una refinería Chevron en Richmond, California, causó que 15,000 personas necesitaran tratamiento médico.

Pam Nixon vive en una zona de West Virginia que llaman “Valle Químico”, rodeada de industrias que manejan químicos tóxicos e inflamables. Durante los 65 años que ha vivido allí, Pam ha tenido que refugiarse en casa y sellar sus ventanas repetidas veces por alertas de fugas químicas.

Litigator, Mother and Climate Champion: Abbie Dillen Is a Name You Should Know

A conversation with Abbie Dillen, clean energy powerhouse and working mother

Seismic Blasting Would Deafen Marine Mammals

The endangered North Atlantic right whale is just one of the marine animals that seismic testing off the East Coast would harm.

As companies search for oil and gas deposits buried beneath the ocean floor in the Atlantic, whales and dolphins could suffer permanent hearing damage and even death.

Trump Revoked Key Pesticide Protections. We're Fighting Back.

The EPA has said that the protections would prevent at least a thousand acute poisonings every year.

Trump's EPA took away key protections to prevent poisonings in homes and fields. Earthjustice and Farmworker Justice are suing the EPA in response.

EPA delay imperils communities of color near chemical plants

On August 6, 2012, a fire and explosion at a Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. caused 15,000 people to seek medical treatment.

African American and Latino communities will be harmed most by the EPA’s delay of a lifesaving chemical safety rule.

Saving Northern Maine’s Economic Gem

: Local business owner Matthew Polstein is fighting the threatened repeal of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument because the new monument has already ramped up tourism and bolstered the regional economy.

Scott Pruitt's Deadly Delays

Activist Yudith Nieto holds an air sampler in Hartman Park, in the Manchester neighborhood of Houston, Texas.

Scott Pruitt is delaying key rules that protect our health and environment. For every delay, lives are lost.

Don’t Close the Door on a Climate Refuge

The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument can serve as a vital ecological refuge for many species as the climate changes—but only if it’s protected.

A Mom’s Battle Against Ozone

Steve, Afton and May Surwillo talk to Rocio Rodarte, Legislative Aide for Colorado Senator Michael F. Bennet, during an Earthjustice clean air fly-in meeting in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington D.C.

Afton Surwillo is part of a broad coalition of moms, doctors and faith leaders speaking out against congressional efforts to weaken clean air protections.