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From the Experts April 17, 2026

EPA’s Disastrous New Proposal Guts Coal Ash Rules – As Coal Plants Nationwide Pollute Water Supplies

EPA’s new proposed coal ash rule would permit widespread contamination from toxic chemicals in coal ash.

Small mouth grunts swim past elkhorn coral. (Ethan Daniels / Shutterstock)
From the Experts April 13, 2026

America’s Fisheries Law Turns 50: Let’s Skip the Mid-Life Crisis

Fish depend on healthy habitats, abundant food sources, and a well-functioning food web to thrive.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are greeted by California Governor Gavin Newsom upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on January 24, 2025, to visit the region devastated by the Palisades and Eaton fires. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)
From the Experts April 6, 2026

California Can Thread the Needle on Oil Prices, Heatwaves, and Trump Attacks this Year

Key legislative fixes can help buffer California from spiking diesel prices and upgrade to better options in their homes.

Tongass National Forest, Kuiu Island, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. The Roadless Rule protects about half of the Tongass, the crown jewel of the National Forest system and home to nearly one-third of all old-growth temperate rainforest remaining in the entire world. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
From the Experts March 13, 2026

Now Is the Time to Speak for the Tongass

A revision of the forest plan for the Tongass National Forest is now underway.

 A fisherman holds his hand dsiplaying a clump of oil from the ruptured BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig on June 9 2010 in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico off of Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. (Benjamin Lowy / Getty Images)
From the Experts March 11, 2026

A New Era of Offshore Drilling Quietly Threatens the Health of Gulf Communities

BP’s “Kaskida” project, which the Trump administration just approved, could become a sequel to Deepwater Horizon.

New York’s warehouses are concentrated around urban areas, transit corridors and port regions but are also located in suburban and rural areas. (2025 Warehouse Boom / Environmental Defense Fund)
From the Experts March 10, 2026

Mega-Warehouses Can be Better Neighbors

In New York, mega-warehouses have clustered in communities already dealing with heavy air pollution. Smart policies can improve air quality.

Oil storage tanks at the Port of Long Beach. (John Gannon for Earthjustice)
From the Experts March 3, 2026

The City of Long Beach Approved Yet Another Oil Storage Tank Project.

Neighbors say enough is enough.

Environmental Protection Agency scientists sort samples for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the EPA Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response in Cincinnati. (Joshua A. Bickel / AP)
From the Experts February 19, 2026

They Got U.S. Cleaner Air and Water. Now This Administration Is Driving Them Away.

Closing EPA labs means dirtier air, unsafe water, and sicker communities.

High-voltage transmission lines provide electricity to data centers in Ashburn in Loudon County, Virginia. (Ted Shaffrey / AP)
From the Experts January 23, 2026

Powering the AI Race: Ready, Set, Coal?

Modern technologies provide faster and cheaper ways to power rising energy demand.

Industrial warehouses located next to suburban homes in Jurupa Valley, California. (MattGush / Getty Images)
From the Experts January 22, 2026

Four Years in, Southern California’s First-in-the-Nation Approach to Clean up Warehouse Pollution is a Beacon

If the WAIRE program were a state, it would rank 21st in electric trucks.

Roundup products are seen for sale at a store in San Rafael, California. (Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images)
From the Experts January 16, 2026

The Supreme Court Case That Could Let Pesticide Companies Off the Hook — Even When Their Products Make People Sick

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

A Rice’s whale — one of the world’s rarest whales — observed in the western Gulf of Mexico in 2024. The species is the only large whale species that lives year-round in North American waters. (Paul Nagelkirk / NOAA Fisheries - NMFS ESA/MMPA Permit #21938)
From the Experts January 16, 2026

As a kid, he came face to face with one of the rarest whales in the world — he just didn’t know it yet

A photo of the whale caught a researcher’s eye, sparking a scientific odyssey spanning 56 years. Today, amid a push to expand fossil fuel drilling in the Gulf, Rice’s whales face extinction.

A refinery is seen at sunset on June 18, 2025 in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
From the Experts December 17, 2025

Breathing the Consequences: EPA’s Refusal to Implement Strengthened Soot Standard Endangers Public Health

A February 2026 deadline calls for EPA to address air pollution from soot, but it appears the agency has taken few steps, if any, to do so.

The Washington County courthouse in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
(Joel Carillet / Getty Images)
From the Experts December 15, 2025

The Laws Still Exist, the Consequences Don’t: America’s Vanishing Environmental Enforcement

With environmental enforcement at a historic low, it’s open season for polluters.

Staghorn coral at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park near Key Largo, Florida. (Rolf von Riedmatten / Getty Images)
From the Experts November 25, 2025

Trashing our oceans: Feds plan the biggest permitted coral destruction in U.S. history

Floridians are raising questions about a U.S. Army Corps plan to blast and dredge Fort Lauderdale’s port — and smother more than 200 acres of sea floor and rare corals.

The launch of "Don't Gas the South and Don't Gas Latin America" campaign at COP30 in Belém, Brazil. (Zô Guimarães / UN Climate Change)
From the Experts November 20, 2025

Inter-American Court to World Leaders: Protecting Human Rights Requires Reducing Fossil Fuel Use

Even after 30 years of climate negotiations, a historic human rights opinion urges governments to do more to fight climate change.

Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are more similar to massive industrial factories than they are to actual farms. (Shutterstock)
From the Experts: Victory November 20, 2025

The End of a Marketing Mirage: In Settlement of Greenwashing Lawsuit, Tyson Agrees to Stop Making Climate Claims

Given the enormous emissions associated with industrial meat production, beef produced in this manner can never be a “climate-smart choice.” Climate-smart beef is plainly an oxymoron.