Un vecindario de la ciudad de Newark se enfrenta a un incinerador de basura tóxica.

A Newark neighborhood takes on a toxic trash incinerator.

Visible pink and purple smoke emission events continue to threaten the public health of frontline Ironbound residents and violate New Jersey and federal laws, raising concern of unpermitted medical waste

On behalf of the Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC), Earthjustice and the Vermont Law School Environmental Advocacy Clinic request that the Newark Central Planning Board withhold approval of the application for planning permission submitted by Aries Newark LLC for the proposed sewage gasification facility at 400 Doremus Avenue because Aries’s application fails to address significant community and environmental concerns.

In an open letter delivered to New Jersey Attorney General, Ironbound Community Corporation chronicles air and potential solid waste violations such as the infamous pink smoke emissions by Incinerator operations that continue to threaten public health and the environment while violating state and federal laws.

Covanta violates pollution permits, threatens public health — all while nabbing incentives intended for clean energy

A new report highlights the health harms and injustice of burning trash in New Jersey’s frontline communities and calls for the elimination of “clean energy” subsidies for New Jersey’s polluting incinerators.

Un nuevo informe revela los daños a la salud y la injusticia de quemar basura en comunidades de primera línea de Nueva Jersey. Asimismo, es perentoria la eliminación de subsidios de “energía limpia” para incineradores contaminantes de Nueva Jersey.

California must divert its resources away from the dying technology of incinerators and towards more sustainable methods of waste management.

Groups petition EPA to close Clean Air Act loopholes for startup, shutdown, malfunction events

Environmental health and justice advocates submit comments on cumulative impacts of toxic pollution

The first-of-its-kind National Climate Platform lays out a vision for just and equitable climate solutions

La Plataforma Nacional Climática insta a una acción climática nacional que confronte las injusticias ambientales, económicas y raciales

Women will continue to help shape the future as we fight to protect the environment that we all share — our planet.

If there’s anything we’ve learned over the last 50 years, it’s that your voice matters.

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Ironbound Community Corporation, and Sierra Club petition the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for a writ of mandamus requiring the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Michael S. Regan, in his official capacity as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate a rule updating its emission standards for large municipal solid waste incinerators. (December 2021)

The Coalition for Healthy Ports NY/NJ (“CHP”) — led by Clean Water Action, Greenfaith, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Ironbound Community Corporation, and New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — and Earthjustice submit these comments to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in support of the Advanced Clean Trucks Program and Fleet Reporting Requirements Proposed Rule, DEP Docket No. 05-21-03 (ACT Rule).

A report by Earthjustice and the Vermont Law School Environmental Advocacy Clinic, in partnership with the Ironbound Community Corporation and the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance