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Thanks to last year’s victory in a challenge brought by Southwest Alaska Tribes, the agencies had to supplement the mine’s environmental study to examine the risks of a larger tailings spill

Un centro de detención para migrantes y un aire irrespirable en pleno corazón de la industria azucarera de la Florida

New research documents widespread environmental and human rights concerns at Glades County Detention Center

Una nueva investigación documenta preocupaciones generales respecto al medio ambiente y derechos humanos en el Centro de Detención del Condado de Glades

On PFAS, pesticides, food additives, and more — what the MAHA commission said in their report, what the MAHA commission recommends and what the Trump administration is actually doing

The Justices will soon decide whether families, workers, and communities still have a path to justice when toxic products make them sick.

Patti Goldman, Attorney, Northwest Office: “When people use pesticides in their fields or on their lawns, they don’t expect to get cancer. Yet this happens, and when it does, state court lawsuits provide the only real path to accountability.”

Isocycloseram was approved for use on golf courses, lawns, and a host of food crops

Thom Cmar, Deputing Managing Attorney, Midwest Regional Office: “It’ll cost all of us in the long run because it will encourage more expensive, dirty coal plants to continue operating for longer and it will mean more arsenic, mercury and lead in our waterways.”

The Duwamish River Community Coalition and Front and Centered, represented by Earthjustice, filed an appeal seeking to overturn a regional air agency decision allowing the Ash Grove Cement Company to burn more tires for fuel at its Seattle plant.

Community groups seek to overturn an illegal air permit that would allow more tire burning resulting in severe health harms to nearby residents

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “When you have chemicals that are this ubiquitous and this toxic, they really call out for strong regulations. You really need the government to do its job and provide protections.”

The onslaught of environmental attacks from polluting industries and their allies in the Trump administration is not slowing down – but neither is the pace of our litigation.

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “If you want to build these data centers, it [can’t] come at the expense of public health. If that message comes clearly from federal, state and local regulators, then these kinds of companies … that claim to be at the forefront of technological innovation will find…

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “The science on formaldehyde hasn’t changed; these are the same arguments that the chemical industry’s been peddling for the last decade. The only difference is that they’ve finally found an administration willing to ignore the findings of its own scientists.”

Andrea Loera, Attorney, Community Partnerships Program: “Excluding hazardous waste from the law does not make hazardous waste dangers magically disappear.”

Lead Poisoning Prevention Week is a reminder that people living in the United States are still regularly exposed to multiple sources of lead in their lives.

EPA issued draft approval for Wyoming already