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The legislation to expands participation in the food donation and food scraps recycling program

Angela Johnson Meszaros, Managing Attorney, Community Partnerships Program: “What they’ve really been denying the community is the ability to really call the question, should this facility, based on its past operation, receive a renewal of its hazardous waste permit? The community’s position is no. And I think that they have the receipts for why the…

Modeling reveals high levels of asthma-causing pollution from Owens-Brockway plant

Not all recycling is as green as it may seem.

State Department of Health holds public hearing on Lahaina Clean Water Act permit

Transitioning to 100% clean energy is a huge opportunity to power our economy and create good jobs without sacrificing our communities or the climate. Here’s how we do it.

Jim Pew, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office, Earthjustice: “It’s quite simple. If you want to burn municipal waste, meet the Clean Air Act standards for municipal waste incinerators. If you want to burn industrial waste, meet the Clean Air Act standards for industrial waste.”

Proposed new county landfill poses environmental hazards and injustice for west side residents

Governor blows up congestion pricing; Assembly fails to pass NY HEAT, Packaging Reduction, and more

Food waste is a top contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. When food waste rots in landfills, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in its global warming strength. According to New York State’s inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, in 2014, landfill emissions made up about 58% of the State’s methane emissions and about 5% of its total greenhouse gas emissions.

New York's legislature passed a strong law banning single-use plastic bags, however, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation proposed regulations that would allow thicker bags to be used, undermining the law. The loophole ultimately increases the lifecycle impacts from plastic bags, from the fossil fuel extraction, to harmful chemical additives, to the bags ending up on streets and oceans, or to later be burned or added to the landfills.

We are advocating for four solutions that together can ensure a sustainable supply chain for critical minerals.

Trash burning already accounts for over 13 tons of mercury pollution alone each year

Earthjustice’s work in state energy proceedings like California is driving the state, and the nation’s, clean energy transition.

Ocean ecosystems are essential to our world, and thankfully, we can still chart a new path forward to protect them.

California must divert its resources away from the dying technology of incinerators and towards more sustainable methods of waste management.

“Electrifying our vehicle fleet is essential to tackling the climate crisis, as transportation contributes the most greenhouse gases to the atmosphere of any industry in the United States.”

The groups urged the administration to institute strong cultural, environmental, and due diligence standards for any mechanisms involved with the sourcing of critical minerals