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Press Release August 12, 2025

Groups Sue EPA Over Toxic Coke Oven Emissions

The agency’s delay keeps pollutants flowing into nearby communities

Although air quality has improved over the years in Los Angeles, Calif., bad air days still blanket the city and surrounding region with smog.
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From the Experts August 7, 2025

Trump Wants to Make America Smoggy Again. California Legislators Are About to Make It Worse

We know where the Trump administration stands on clean air protections, but why are state legislators in California pushing a pro-pollution bill like SB 34 forward?

Emissions rise from a coal-fired generation station in Indiana. (Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg Creative via Getty Images)
Article August 7, 2025

Por qué es Importante el ‘Dictamen de Peligro’ de la EPA

La EPA afirmó que los gases de efecto invernadero representan un riesgo para la salud pública. Sin embargo, la EPA de Trump quiere retractarse y derogar muchas de las normas que limitan la contaminación atmosférica.

Downtown Seattle skyline. (Candice Cusack / Getty Images)
Press Release: Victory August 7, 2025

Washington Board Orders Wastewater Treatment Plant to Implement Stronger Pollution Controls

The Puget Soundkeeper victory is critical first step to address long-standing pollution from municipal wastewater that degrade water quality in Puget Sound

document August 6, 2025

West Point Pollution Control Hearings Board Order

Washington State’s Pollution Control Hearings Board ruled on an appeal to a West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant permit, requiring King County to limit nutrient pollutants like nitrogen and phosphorous from the water treatment plant.

Press Release August 5, 2025

Bad Air Quality Alert Issued in NY due to Wildfires Caused by Climate Change

New York Senators passed legislation to aid in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the Assembly rejected action

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feature August 4, 2025

Denying Our Climate Reality

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is repealing the scientific finding that mandates the government to protect the public against climate pollution.

The EPA's endangerment finding is the basis for important greenhouse gas rules, including regulations on emissions from oil and gas facilities. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
From the Experts August 1, 2025

A Legal Analysis of the Trump EPA’s Plan to Revoke the Endangerment Finding

The EPA’s proposal rejects mainstream science and misunderstands the law.

Flared gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood gas plant in the Permian Basin on February 5, 2015 in Garden City, Texas.
(Spencer Platt)
Press Release July 31, 2025

Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Trump EPA’s Delay of Protections Against Oil and Gas Methane Pollution

The rule gives the oil and gas industry a pass to pollute, harm our health, and degrade our environment

document July 31, 2025

Petition against delay of the 2024 methane standards for the oil and gas industry

A dozen health, environment, and community groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s delay of the 2024 methane standards for the oil and gas industry — standards that keep dangerous pollution out of our air and reduce wasted energy from oil and gas leaks, venting, and flaring.

document July 30, 2025

National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Integrated Iron and Steel Manufacturing Facilities – Motion for Summary Vacatur or a Stay Pending Judicial Review

Community groups and organizations in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, Earthjustice challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent action to delay air pollution compliance rules for steel mills.

Press Release July 30, 2025

Groups Legally Challenge EPA’s Latest Attack on Clean Air Protections

EPA’s recent action leaves communities vulnerable to dangerous, toxic pollutants

Progress Rail’s EMD Joule Battery Electric Locomotive. (Progress Rail)
Press Release July 29, 2025

Legislation Reintroduced to Transform the United States’ Rail Network

All Aboard Act dedicates $200 billion over five years to build transportation system of the future

Flaring of methane gas associated with Mancos shale oil development in New Mexico.
(Photo courtesy of Mike Eisenfeld / WildEarth Guardians)
Press Release July 29, 2025

Earthjustice Blasts EPA for Methane Emissions Rollback

Giving the oil and gas industry a pass on compliance is bad for our health, environment, and wallets

Emissions rise from a coal-fired generation station in Indiana. (Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg Creative via Getty Images)
Article July 29, 2025

Why the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Matters

The EPA said greenhouse gases are a risk to public health. Scientists and the courts have affirmed it. Now, Trump’s EPA wants to pretend that climate change isn’t a problem.

Press Release July 28, 2025

Community Members Condemn EPA’s Lack of Drinking Water Protections

EPA announced plans to roll back PFAS drinking water protections, affecting communities across the country in states including, North Carolina, New York, and Maine

Press Release July 28, 2025

Coalition Files Legal Petition to Demand the EPA Address Syracuse Lead Water Crisis

Local, national organizations call for action after over a year of poisoned water

document July 28, 2025

Final Syracuse EPA Petition (July 2025)

Families for Lead Freedom Now, a community group representing families directly affected by childhood lead poisoning in Syracuse, along with partners, filed a legal petition urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force New York State and the City of Syracuse to address the city’s lead water crisis. In July 2024, city tests revealed extraordinarily high levels of lead in drinking water, prompting residents and advocates to call for a state of emergency. The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), Earthjustice, Legal Services of Central New York (LSCNY), and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) have filed the petition on behalf of Families for Lead Freedom Now.