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After years of inaction by the federal government, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed long-overdue limits on six PFAS in drinking water. (Getty Images)
feature April 10, 2024

Inside EPA’s Roadmap on Regulating PFAS Chemicals

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

Press Release September 11, 2023

Environmental Group Challenges EPA’s 2023-2025 Renewable Fuel Standard Rule; Failure to Fully Consider Climate and Land Impacts Violates Clean Air Act and Administrative Procedure Act

The EPA Rule ignores evidence that biofuel production has significant climate, environmental, consumer, and justice impacts in violation of federal law

The U.S. EPA’s flag flies outside the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C.
(Aidan Wakely Mulroney / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release December 21, 2017

Doctors and Scientists Challenge Removal of EPA Science Advisers

Illegal policy undermines integrity of science and threatens public health

Press Release June 13, 2023

EPA Science Advisors Urge Agency to Strength Nation’s Smog Standards

The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee finds science ‘unequivocally’ shows current standards fail to protect public health and the environment

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has barred scientists who receive EPA funding for their research from sitting on key scientific advisory boards.
(Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0)
Article October 31, 2017

Scott Pruitt’s EPA Just Shut the Door on Independent Scientists

A new policy at the EPA will leave the agency's science advisory boards full of industry consultants.

The U.S. EPA’s flag flies outside the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C.
(AIDAN WAKELY MULRONEY / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release: Victory April 21, 2020

Federal Court Rules Against EPA Attack on Independent Science

This win affirms the role of independent science committees at the EPA

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
(GAGE SKIDMORE / CC BY-SA 2.0)
Article December 21, 2017

We’re Suing to Stop a New Kind of Pollution: ‘Alternative Facts’

Earthjustice filed suit today to stop EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt from replacing science advisers with industry shills.

The U.S. EPA’s flag flies outside the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C.
(Aidan Wakely Mulroney / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Press Release August 15, 2019

Earthjustice Asks Court to Protect Independent Science Advisors

Trump administration’s science attack prioritizes profits over public health

An oil refinery looms over the west side of Port Arthur, TX.
(Eric Kayne for Earthjustice)
feature April 27, 2018

A Disaster In The Making

A new report documents how people have been left in harm’s way, as the Trump administration attempts to block the Chemical Disaster Rule.

Summer tomato harvest at Harlem Grown, an Earthjustice partner and New York City-based community organization working to increase access to and knowledge of healthful food.
(Sorangel Arlyn Liriano / Earthjustice)
feature October 28, 2022

Climate, Land, Food, Bodies

Alongside our partners, Earthjustice is working to reform the food and farming system, driving the transition from current industrial practices, which churn out unhealthy food and substantial quantities of pollution, to a new model that prioritizes the sustainable production of nutritious food.

Millions of Americans rely on the Clean Water Rule to protect their drinking water sources.
(Ren Photo / Getty Images)
Press Release June 22, 2020

Tribes, Labor, And Environmental Advocates File Lawsuit As The Trump Administration Finalizes WOTUS

Wetlands and ephemeral streams get dropped from protection, opened to pollution

Black Lives Matter activists at the 2017 Peoples Climate March in Washington, D.C. Trump's Environmental Protection Agency has turned its back on policies that protect communities of color.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Article January 23, 2018

For People of Color, Trump’s EPA Is a Health Hazard

The agency has scaled back regulations that protect communities of color from air and water pollution.

Barbara Deardorff draws water from her tap in Wheatfield, Indiana, where toxic chemicals from a local coal ash pond have leached into her community's water supply. The state recently repealed its water protections in favor of the Trump administration's "Dirty Water Rule," leaving residents more vulnerable to chemical poisoning.
(Alex Garcia for Earthjustice)
From the Experts February 17, 2021

In the Race for Dirtiest Water, Indiana Pulls Ahead with Repeal of Wetlands Protections

The state just doubled down on its dirty water status by embracing the Trump administration’s weak regulation instead of strengthening its own.

Participants in the 2017 March for Science in Washington, DC., protested the Trump administration's anti-science attacks.
(Molly Adams/Flickr)
Article December 13, 2018

Tired of Losing in Court, Trump Administration Amplifies Attack on Science

The Trump administration is acutely aware of science’s role in pushing for effective government regulation, so it’s instituted a sneak attack on science.

More than half of all apples in the U.S. are sprayed with chlorpyrifos, a pesticide considered too toxic for residential use.
(Lance Cheung / USDA)
Press Release September 22, 2020

EPA Ignores Evidence Chlorpyrifos Causes Permanent Damage To Children’s Brains

Agency fudges the numbers to keep chlorpyrifos in our food

Press Release December 18, 2013

Groups to EPA: Science Confirms Importance of Streams and Wetlands

White House and EPA must move quickly to restore clean water protections that would affect 117 million Americans

Press Release September 17, 2013

EPA Releases Scientific Study Supporting Clean Water Protections

Report underscores need to protect all waters from pollution