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Julian Gonzalez, Senior Legislative Counsel, Policy & Legislation Team: “You’re going from a much stronger [drinking water] regulation to a weaker one and as a result, lots and lots of children and adults and fetuses are all going to be threatened with really irreversible health harms.”

Adam Kron, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “This is information that the public deserves to know — what the facilities are that are near them, what types of chemicals they deal with.”

“Notwithstanding the overt cruelty of this decision, no one wants an unhealthier and more polluted America, coopted by industry.”

Hillary Aidun, Attorney, Northeast Office: “Brookhaven should not release Covanta from liability for a small amount of money especially given the need for remediation and the fact that there are a number of pending lawsuits against Brookhaven resulting from the landfill.”

Black plastic items may contain a deadly flame retardant. We’re suing the government to keep it out of our homes.

Earthjustice will use the power of the law to defend the right to a healthy environment.

We’ve come too far on strengthening lead protections to back down. Communities drinking contaminated water because of lead pipes should not have to wait decades for help.

Major rail car explosion risk now averted throughout American communities

Company announces they no longer plan to build in Louisiana

Katherine O’Brien, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “Despite calculating very high cancer risks for people in their homes and also fence line community residents, EPA has completely written off those risks, and set the stage for no regulation to address those risks. That’s deeply disappointing and very hard to comprehend.”

Dominique Burkhardt, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “They’re not in any way taking into account who’s actually impacted by air pollution.”

Motion of Newburgh Clean Water Project, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club to intervene in support of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the challenge to the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper: Improvements.

Working with four nonprofit environmental organizations — Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, RE Sources, Toxic-Free Future, and Waste Action Project — Earthjustice advocated for more stringent pollution controls for the wastewater treatment plant to help protect salmon, orcas, and people.

A group of health advocates, represented by Earthjustice, sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to force the agency to reevaluate its decades-old authorizations for the use of certain phthalates in food packaging and food production materials.

Los ftalatos, un grupo de sustancias químicas altamente tóxicas, entran en contacto con productos de consumo mediante empaques o envases, entre otros materiales.

Phthalates leach from packaging and other products into food and drinks

Standards fail to protect against harmful carbon monoxide exposure until levels reach a critical danger point

The current voluntary standards for CO alarms are insufficient to safeguard public health. A significant flaw in these standards is that alarms are not triggered until carbon monoxide levels become life-threatening, leaving people vulnerable to lower concentrations of the gas that can still cause serious and permanent harm, including increased risks of cardiovascular harm, stroke, and developmental harm.