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In the News: The Guardian May 4, 2025

How Trump’s love for crypto threatens U.S. residents’ peace: ‘I just want quiet’

Mandy DeRoche, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “If there are policies that support increased mining, there’s going to be more pollution and more community impacts.”

(Mary Terriberry / Shutterstock)
Press Release May 2, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on President’s Budget Release

“The President’s Budget robs the American people to pursue a reckless political agenda.”

Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant. (Appalachian Voices)
From the Experts May 2, 2025

Polluters can now email their way out of clean air laws, courtesy of Trump

Trump is handing out pollution waivers, leaving millions breathing more toxic air

Press Release May 1, 2025

Senate Allows Thousands of the Worst Polluters Shut Off Clean Air Controls

Majority vote to gut core Clean Air Act protections, flooding communities with cancer-causing air pollution

Smog covers the city of Los Angeles.
(Photo courtesy of Ben Amstutz)
Press Release April 30, 2025

House of Representatives Votes to Repeal States’ Clean Air Standards, Bucking the Law and Congressional Watchdog

Abuse of Congressional Review Act veers far outside norms of the law

In the News: Capital & Main April 30, 2025

Fracking-Powered Crypto Mine in Pennsylvania Shuts Down Without Word to Regulators

Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “Diversified must not be allowed to walk away and leave others to clean up its mess.”

Gravel road along the Border wall between New Mexico, USA and the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico at night.
(Getty Images)
Press Release April 29, 2025

Congress Moves Forward with Billions in Funding for Border Wall Construction

Community and advocacy organizations condemn funding included in the budget reconciliation proposal

A haze of smog covers the Port of Houston. (James Dillard)
Press Release: Victory April 28, 2025

Army Corps revokes permit and agrees to full environmental review if project is to move forward near toxic San Jacinto Waste Pits

After lawsuit, agency revokes “Letter of Permission” shortcut, commits to proper environmental assessment of dredging and barge mooring risks

document April 28, 2025

Notice of Voluntary Dismissal – THEA v. USACE

Notice of Voluntary Dismissal for THEA v. USACE in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division.

document April 28, 2025

Border Wall Letter: Budget Reconciliation

Fifty-five community and advocacy groups are condemning additional funding will be part of the Republican budget reconciliation package.

New York’s warehouses are concentrated around urban areas, transit corridors and port regions but are also located in suburban and rural areas. (2025 Warehouse Boom / Environmental Defense Fund)
Press Release April 28, 2025

New Report Finds Disadvantaged Communities Bear the Brunt of Massive Warehouse Expansion Through New York State

Communities exposed to warehouse-associated diesel truck pollution face higher levels of air-pollution-linked health problems like asthma and cardiovascular disease

Press Release: Victory April 23, 2025

Senate Unanimously Confirms Hannah Springer for Water Commission’s Loea Seat

Her confirmation ends a year-long controversy over Governor Josh Green’s delays in the nomination process

In the News: Streetsblog NYC April 21, 2025

Early Trump Memos Undermine Sean Duffy’s Argument Against Congestion Pricing

Dror Ladin, Attorney, Northeast Office: “In administrative law, you’re not supposed to just reopen questions based on things that could have been raised at the time.”

document April 21, 2025

NAAQS PM2.5 Letter to EPA Administrator Zeldin

A coalition of 100 organizations urges Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to uphold and fully implement the 2024 national soot pollution standard, citing its strong legal and scientific basis and its potential to save thousands of lives and deliver billions in public health benefits.

document April 17, 2025

Coalition Support letter for AB 914 (the California Pollution Hotspots Solution Act)

The undersigned organizations write in support of AB 914 (Garcia, R), which will equip the state of California with critical regulatory tools to clean up air pollution. This legislation affirms the California Air Resources Board’s authority to regulate “indirect sources” that attract activity from polluting vehicles and equipment. Californians breathe some of the dirtiest air in the country and ports, warehouses, and other freight hubs — with the polluting diesel trucks and equipment that serve them — are major culprits. This bill provides a crucial pathway to slash this dangerous pollution.

From the Experts April 17, 2025

Another Day, Another Cynical Attempt by the Oil and Gas Industry to Drag Us Back to Dirtier Days

We’re stepping in to defend a trio of life-saving rules from a flurry of opportunistic lawsuits

Dionna Brown, the National Director of Youth Environmental Justice Policy at Young, Gifted, and Green in downtown Flint, Michigan. (Brittany Greeson for Earthjustice)
Article April 17, 2025

Millions of Americans Are Still Exposed to Lead. Take Action to Help.

A Republican-run Congress may repeal lead exposure protections, endangering millions of lives in the U.S. We are ready to fight back.

In the News: The Lens April 14, 2025

A Mississippi flood relief project could harm 90,000 acres of valuable wetlands. Is it worth the tradeoff?

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “This proposed project is going to impact over 90,000 acres of wetlands. That’s three times the amount that EPA prohibited in the veto. For them now to reverse course and say the veto doesn’t apply is unheard of.”