A 15-year legal fight to curb toxic wastewater to protect drinking water.

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

With more than a dozen major environmental rules recently finalized, here’s what the administration should do as soon as possible to secure a lasting impact.

Standards will tackle major sources of climate pollution and protect public health

Letter comes on eve of the 14th anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill

Falls short on climate; restores critical funding for water infrastructure

Assembly kills NY HEAT Act in final budget deal, the leading policy to address energy affordability and climate change

An international court ruled in favor of the people of La Oroya, Peru, finding that the government violated their right to a healthy environment.

Adam Kron, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “This is an incredibly significant rule that will curtail some of the nation’s biggest drivers of cancer risk.”

The new standards will require action to clean up drinking water for tens of millions of people nationwide

. It has been over thirty years since Congress told EPA to protect the public from the harms of this incinerator pollution, and environmental justice communities are still waiting for those protections. EPA has committed to advancing equitable outcomes in environmental justice communities and building meaningful engagement with these communities. The time to deliver on those commitments is now.

Biden administration falls short of fully restoring ESA

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency based on the State Department of Ecology failure to implement a 20 year-old water clean-up plan to address warm stream temperatures in the Lower Skagit River that cause ongoing harm to salmon.

Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “This is the most right-wing court we’ve seen in almost a century, and that’s emboldening conservative legal activists to swing for the fences with legal claims that would have been laughable just a few years ago. The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.”

A letter from more than 30 Tribal Nations in the Great Lakes region sent to President Joe Biden urging the United States to speak out against the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline’s trespass on the Bad River Band’s land.

60+ groups oppose cuts to the Inflation Reduction Act’s coastal resilience funding

70+ organizations express strong opposition to H.R. 7408, the America’s Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Act. This bill is a transparent attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act and hamstring the conservation of our most imperiled species and their habitats.

The updates will reduce more than 6,000 tons of the nation’s most harmful air pollution, including the carcinogens ethylene oxide and chloroprene