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Fighting for

Healthy Communities

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Earthjustice's litigation holds polluters and the government accountable for following our nation's bedrock environmental laws, which exist to ensure widespread protections from pollution and toxic chemicals and to promote thriving communities.

Strategy

Earthjustice works at the regional and national level to ensure widespread protections from pollution and exposure to toxic chemicals. Our fight for healthy communities involves strengthening standards and protections and holding polluters accountable when they violate those standards.

Focus Areas

Coal-fired power plant in Cheswick, PA. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)

Clean Air

Breathing is supposed to keep us alive, not kill us. Yet tens of thousands of Americans die every year because of dirty air. Earthjustice is wielding the power of the Clean Air Act to clean up air and to hold industry accountable for its pollution, so people can live full lives with lower risks of cancer, and fewer heart attacks and debilitating asthma episodes. Learn more.
(Joel Sartore / National Geographic Creative)

Clean Water

Florida waterways are green with toxic algae, large sugar plantations are sucking Hawaiian streams dry, and storm water runoff is inundating Puget Sound with bacteria, wastewater pollutants, and toxic chemicals. Our litigation applies and enforces the Clean Water Act to stop the pollution of our water resources and to strengthen protections of our water resources -- from Chesapeake Bay to Puget Sound and all the lakes, wetlands and rivers in between. Learn more.
(Sarah Leen / National Geographic Creative)

Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals

Earthjustice is protecting people and communities from toxic chemical exposure. We are working to reform our broken toxics regulatory system to force companies to prove chemicals are safe before they are put on the market. With more than 78,000 chemicals approved for commercial use, the stakes are high. Learn more.

Recent News

We're the lawyers for the environment, and the law is on our side.
“What we want is simple. We expect justice.”
– Esther CalhounUniontown resident and Earthjustice client, on the litigation fight to clean up coal ash pollution.
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