Breathing or ingesting the toxic chemicals in coal ash can harm every major organ in the human body over time. Short-term exposure to the chemicals in coal ash can lead to dizziness, nausea, vomiting, irritation of the nose and throat, and shortness of breath. Long-term exposure can lead to organ damage and a variety of cancers.
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is repealing the scientific finding that mandates the government to protect the public against climate pollution.
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.
In letter to Department of Energy, groups call process to change designation of the fossil fuel “flawed and insufficient” in department’s 2026 Critical Materials Assessment
Court determines New York has the power to require new buildings to use clean electrical appliances instead of allowing dirty fossil fuel combustion in people’s homes and other new buildings.
Mapuche communities urge Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to further investigate abuses at nexus of extractive industry and land dispossession
