Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

The EPA has designated PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under CERCLA, which requires polluters to fund cleanup of contaminated sites

The petition asks EPA to regulate PFAS created that leach from more than 100 million fluorinated plastic containers into household products and the environment.

The petition asks EPA to regulate PFAS created that leach from more than 100 million fluorinated plastic containers into household products and the environment

What PFAS are, why they’re harmful, and what we can do to protect ourselves from them

Highly toxic PFAS chemicals are present in the drinking water of as many as 200 million Americans.

Las nuevas normas requerirán medidas para limpiar el agua potable de decenas de millones de personas alrededor del país

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

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “We have an agricultural system where everybody eats and everybody wears clothes made from cotton, but the people who pay the cost for that are overwhelmingly immigrant and Latino farmworkers who are just bearing unbelievable harm. Our society tolerates levels of risk in California’s Central Valley that…

Geoffrey Fettus is the managing attorney of the Toxic Exposure & Health Program at Earthjustice.

The Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, can help protect us from harmful chemicals. But first, the government must fully enforce it.

Lead-contaminated water continues to plague many U.S. cities and rural areas alike, but a renewed focus by the federal government and state-based efforts offer hope for finally dealing with this nationwide crisis.

The carcinogenic chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) has contaminated drinking water for decades and been linked to cancer clusters across the country.

Paraquat damages farmworkers’ respiratory system, their kidneys, and their eyes. Help us urge the EPA to ban it.

Adriana Antezana is a staff scientist in the Toxic Exposure & Health Program.

A year after the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, advocates are still pushing for much-needed change.

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “There is an incredibly overwhelming body of evidence on this that has been accepted by scientists across the globe, and the EPA’s decision really placed it at odds with the best available science.”

The Biden administration may soon be finalizing a ban on trichloroethylene. Here’s what it is, who is at risk, and one family’s story after being exposed