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Earthjustice sued the EPA for failing to ban lead wheel weights, small metal bars that help balance tires but shed toxic lead into our air, water, and soil.

The federal agency will start a rulemaking process to address toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in more than 100 million fluorinated plastic containers

Eve Gartner, Director, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “It’ll take centuries before there’s enough data to figure out how dangerous each PFAS is.”

Chemical Companies and Water Providers are challenging the EPA’s right to protect the public from PFAS in their drinking water

Health and environmental stakes are high as the Court ruled in favor of industrial polluters and political allies in their challenge of the EPA’s efforts to curb smog and protect communities.

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “You have this chemical that is causing severe health risks to workers, consumers and surrounding communities and those risks have not been adequately regulated under any other law.”

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

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “The rule allows more than 50 percent of current methylene chloride production and use to continue, subject only to workplace exposure limits that EPA lacks the resources to enforce and that do nothing for the communities where methylene chloride is released.”

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

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…

Based in Washington, D.C., Geoff Fettus leads Earthjustice’s Toxic Exposure & Health Program, which works to protect the health of communities by ensuring homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and schools are free of hazardous chemicals and everyone has access to safe drinking water and food.

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