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Article December 5, 2025

The Lawyers Giving Us Hope

Six Earthjustice attorneys share what motivates them to keep fighting for the planet and its people.

(Hannah Rothstein for Earthjustice)
Press Release May 23, 2025

As Senate Rolls Back Life-Saving Clean Air Policy, New York is Left in the Lurch with Dirty Diesel Pollution

New York must now pursue new state laws to clean up diesel trucks like the Clean Deliveries Act

In the News: CalMatters January 14, 2025

California abandons diesel truck ban and 3 other clean-air rules before Trump is sworn in

Paul Cort, Director of Right to Zero, Earthjustice: “To meet basic standards for healthy air, California has to shift to zero-emissions trucks and trains in the coming years. Diesel is one of the most dangerous kinds of air pollution for human health, and California’s diesel problem is big enough to cast its own shadow. We’ll…

NY Clean Deliveries Act rally with ElectrifyNY Coalition on October 1, 2025. (Michelle Stockwell / Earthjustice)
Press Release October 1, 2025

NY Lawmakers and Advocates Call for State Action on E-commerce Mega-warehouse Pollution

As the federal government guts air quality protections, NY must step up to tackle pollution from diesel trucks and protect public health by passing the Clean Deliveries Act

Representatives from the Kids Clean Air Force pose next to hand delivered comments from Americans nationwide to the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. opposing the EPA's planned rollback of greenhouse gas regulations from fossil fuel plants and transportation. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice)
feature November 3, 2025

Climate & Energy Program Report

Earthjustice is fighting back to defend climate progress and the clean energy economy from dangerous attempts to drag us backward.

Empire State Building and Manhattan skyline, New York City. Buildings are the city’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. (Matteo Colombo / Getty Images)
feature October 22, 2025

Northeast Regional Report Fall 2025

In the Northeast, our work is helping to keep us moving forward in the fight for environmental and climate justice, clean air and water, and the right to a healthy environment for all.

Clockwise, from top-left: (David Shindle for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission),  (Kelvin Gorospe / NOAA), (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice), (Edwin Remsberg / Getty Images), (Gerald Herbert / AP), (Danielle Villasana for Earthjustice), (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / US Coast Guard), (Matteo Colombo / Getty Images)
feature November 4, 2025

Earthjustice Program Report: Fall 2025

Together with our clients, we’re wielding the power of the law across 700 legal matters to protect people and our planet. With deep gratitude, we are pleased to share highlights of this work, which is made possible by partners like you.

(James Olstein for Earthjustice)
feature October 15, 2025

Right To Zero: Building a Zero-emissions Future

We’re creating a zero-emissions reality from coast to coast.

Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette and Earthjustice attorney Alexis Andiman collect water samples in the Cape Fear River near the Smithfield slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina, October 2023. We’ve successfully pushed the EPA to propose rules that, if implemented, would prevent nearly 100 million pounds of slaughterhouse pollution from reaching U.S. waters each year. (Justin Cook for Earthjustice)
feature October 15, 2025

Farming For Our Future

Through litigation, legislative and administrative advocacy, and communications, Earthjustice’s Sustainable Food and Farming team advances the transition to a cleaner, safer, and more climate-friendly food system.

Ley de Entregas Limpias de Nueva York | Manifestación con la Coalición ElectrifyNY el 1 de octubre de 2025. (Michelle Stockwell / Earthjustice)
Press Release October 1, 2025

Legisladores y Defensores de Nueva York Exigen Acción Estatal contra la Contaminación de Grandes Centros de Comercio Electrónico

Ante la debilitación de protecciones federales a la calidad del aire, Nyeva York debe tomar medidas para combatir la contaminación de los camiones diésel y proteger la salud pública con la Ley de Entregas Limpias

Riverview Energy Corp. plans to build a coal-to-diesel plant one mile from the heart of Dale, IN. Citizens put up a billboard to voice their disapproval of the project. (Southwestern Indiana Citizens for Quality of Life)
Press Release: Victory August 3, 2023

Riverview Energy Loses Its Permit for Indiana Coal-to-diesel Refinery

Environmental groups have been fighting the project for more than five years

Alejandra Ruedas, right, holds a sign at a rally before a California Air Resources Board public hearing to consider proposed Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation on Oct. 27, 2022, in Sacramento, Calif. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
From the Experts April 14, 2023

In The Race to End Diesel Truck Pollution, California Widens Its Stride

California is not just staying in the running, but picking up the pace for zero emissions.

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)
Press Release April 28, 2025

New Report Finds Disadvantaged Communities Bear the Brunt of Massive Warehouse Expansion Through New York State

Communities exposed to warehouse-associated diesel truck pollution face higher levels of air-pollution-linked health problems like asthma and cardiovascular disease

Assemblymember Claire Valdez speaks at the New York State Capitol during a rally on Apr. 9, 2024, to call on lawmakers to protect New York’s clean truck standard in the upcoming budget.  (Cindy Schultz for Earthjustice)
Press Release April 9, 2025

Lawmakers, Environmental Justice, and Clean Air Advocates Call on Governor Hochul to Stand Strong for Clean Air Protections

State leaders rally in Albany to urge the Governor to protect the life-saving clean truck standard in final budget and reject industry efforts to gut air protections

Press Release: Victory October 27, 2025

NJ Court Prohibits Construction of Controversial Newark Gas Plant

Project in limbo after PVSC ignored significant community opposition to the project

Press Release May 4, 2012

Environmental Groups Call on EPA to Ban Diesel Use in Fracking

Poses serious risks to drinking water sources

Progress Rail’s EMD Joule Battery Electric Locomotive. (Progress Rail)
From the Experts July 9, 2024

Four Facts the Rail Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About Zero-Emissions Trains

With California charting a course for zero-emissions rail, some of America’s oldest monopolies are conniving to hit the brakes on clean air. Don’t believe their misinformation.

A Mack LR Electric garbage truck operated by the New York City Department of Sanitation. (Mack Trucks)
Press Release: Victory January 15, 2025

Long Beach Commits to 100% All-Electric Garbage Trucks

Long Beach becomes second city in California to make a bold commitment to electrify its garbage trucks