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View of Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake. (Nick Pedersen / Getty Images)
Article September 17, 2024

Why We’re in Court to Protect the Great Salt Lake

Millions of people could wind up breathing in toxic dust from newly exposed lakebed.

Press Release September 4, 2024

EPA Narrows Loophole That Allows Mega-Polluters to Dodge Control Requirements

Final rule limits Trump-era deregulation of toxic pollution

The Cheswick coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania, reflected in a window of a home in Springdale, is among the hundreds of power plants likely covered by the Mercury & Air Toxics Standards.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
feature April 25, 2024

The Mercury & Air Toxics Standards

When companies burn coal in the U.S., significant amounts of mercury spew into our air. Now, that mercury is controlled, thanks to a federal rule that Earthjustice and our clients fought for, defended, and successfully expanded.

Peter Lehner (left), managing attorney of Earthjustice’s Sustainable Food & Farming Program, discusses restorative, climate-friendly farming practices on Seth Watkins’ farm in Iowa. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
page August 15, 2024

Legacy Giving: Frequently Asked Questions

Do you have questions on how to create your environmental legacy? We have answers.

Musician and Blackfeet cultural spokesman Jack Gladstone hikes in the Badger-Two Medicine region on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwest Montana. Gladstone is part of the movement to protect the Badger-Two Medicine Land from oil and gas drilling. (Rebecca Drobis for Earthjustice)
page August 15, 2024

Legacy Giving: For Advisors, Executors, and Organizations

Resources for financial advisors, attorneys, and estate planners to help your clients realize their philanthropic objectives.

The Cheswick Generating Station operated next door to homes in Springdale, Penn., for more than 50 years until it finally closed in 2022. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
feature July 19, 2024

We’re Still Cleaning Up the Trump Administration’s Environmental Messes

Earthjustice successfully blocked much damage, and we’ve seen progress toward repair under the Biden administration. But we will never recover some of what was lost.

Press Release February 9, 2024

EPA’s Delayed Mercury Limits for Taconite Plants Fall Short

The rule doesn’t reduce taconite facilities’ dangerous mercury emissions enough

A grizzly bear in a Montana forest. (Beth Hibschman / Getty Images)
Press Release August 27, 2024

Government Appeals Grizzly Protections in Flathead, Plaintiffs to Defend Win

Earthjustice will go to court to defend its victory limiting road building in grizzly habitat

The Puyallup River, with Mount Tahoma (Rainier) in the background. (David Seibold / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Update August 23, 2024

In a Win for Endangered Salmon, Court Orders Puyallup River Dam Removal

Electron Dam has been harming Chinook salmon, steelhead, and trout for nearly 100 years. With part of the dam gone, the river will flow naturally for the first time in almost a century.

page July 11, 2024

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“EPA is sentencing entire segments of the population to a poisoned death,” said Caroline Armijo (left) of N.C. Read her story, and those of Nicole Horseherder of Ariz., and Tom Sedor of Penn., in the special report, <a href="//earthjustice.org/lives"><em>Erasing Lives</em></a>.
(From left: Justin Cook for Earthjustice. Darcy Padilla. Chris Knight.)
feature May 13, 2021

Special Report: The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

Three Americans living near power plants share how they will be harmed by the gutting of the Mercury & Air Toxics Standards.

The Puyallup River, with Mount Tahoma (Rainier) in the background. (David Seibold / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release: Victory August 19, 2024

Ninth Circuit Decision Upholds Earlier Court Ruling Ordering Partial Removal of Washington’s Electron Dam

Ruling means a free-flowing Puyallup River for fish for the first time in more than 100 years

In the News: Finger Lakes Times July 29, 2024

Appeals court says Seneca lake Guardian can sue state over PFAs

Hillary Aidun, Senior Associate Attorney, Northeast Regional Office: “As the Appellate Court made clear, people who drink water from a lake have every right to challenge decisions that could pollute that lake. We look forward to showing that that DEC has to follow it own waste management regulations and ensure that PFAS are properly handled…

People hike toward Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park in Montana. (Glacier National Park)
Article August 20, 2024

A Postcard from Glacier National Park, Where the Glaciers Are Shrinking

Our public lands are showing climate impacts — and a need for change.

Press Release May 11, 2023

EPA Proposes Rule to Reduce Harmful Mercury Emissions Ruining Minnesota’s Waters

The rule would reduce taconite, or iron ore, mercury emissions from processing plants

A view of the northwest section of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona. (U.S. Department of the Interior)
Press Release April 25, 2024

Conservation Groups Defend Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument, Antiquities Act

Motion to intervene filed in support of President Biden’s monument designation near Grand Canyon

The EES Coke Battery facility on Zug Island in River Rouge, Michigan. The plant is owned by DTE Vantage, a subsidiary of DTE Energy. The EES Coke facility releases thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide in the overburdened River Rouge community and near the state’s most polluted zip code, 48217. (Ted Auch / FracTracker Alliance)
Press Release: Victory May 24, 2024

EPA Finalizes Overdue Air Standards for Cancer-Causing Coke Ovens Emissions

The new rule will require companies to be more transparent about emission releases, fenceline monitoring, and set new limits for dangerous, unregulated air toxics

In the News: Post & Courier July 10, 2024

‘Forever chemical’ polluters land hefty contracts to meet electric vehicle battery demand

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