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Jackson Bridge
(Siddharth Patil / CCO 1.0)
feature March 18, 2021

Ironbound: Un Barrio Inquebrantable

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

Jackson Bridge
(Siddharth Patil / CCO 1.0)
feature January 22, 2021

Ironbound Unyielding

A Newark neighborhood takes on a toxic trash incinerator.

The incinerator is located in the heart of the Ironbound community and is the largest in New Jersey. Continued air violations have grown particularly noticeable this year as Newark residents and the media have photographed tinted pink smoke emanating from the incinerator’s smokestack.
(Christopher Rodrigeuz / Ironbound Community)
Press Release October 24, 2019

Due To Covanta’s Continuous ‘Pink Smoke’ Air Violations The Ironbound Community Urges NJ AG To Investigate And Take Enforcement

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

Document February 18, 2021

Letter: Ironbound Community Corporation, Earthjustice, and the Vermont Law School Environmental Advocacy Clinic request to Newark Central Planning Board

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.

Document October 23, 2019

New Jersey's Ironbound Community Urges AG to Investigate Pollution Violations

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.

Art created by young people in Newark, NJ’s Ironbound neighborhood in advance of a November 2018 demonstration targeting Covanta, the company that runs New Jersey’s largest garbage incinerator and largest source of airborne lead pollution.
(Jonathan Smith / Earthjustice)
Press Release November 15, 2018

Newark Youth March on Covanta, Trash-Burning Incinerator Masquerading As “Energy Plant”

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

Newark children demand clean air instead of pollution from local incinerators.
(Ironbound Community Corporation)
feature February 24, 2021

Report: New Jersey’s Dirty Secret – The Injustice Of Incinerators And Trash Energy In New Jersey’s Frontline Communities

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.

Newark children demand clean air instead of pollution from local incinerators.
(Ironbound Community Corporation)
feature August 13, 2021

El Informe: El Secreto Sucio de Nueva Jersey – la injusticia de los incineradores y la energía generada por basura en las comunidades de base de Nueva Jersey

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.

Southeast Resource Recovery Facility (SERRF) Incinerator in Long Beach, Calif.
(East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice)
feature November 9, 2021

Vestiges of Environmental Racism: Closing California’s Last Two Municipal Waste Incinerators

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

Press Release September 13, 2022

Dangerous Loopholes Allow Facilities to Release Toxic, Unchecked Air Pollutants

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

Press Release July 3, 2013

Communities Across the Country Bombarded By Pollution Urge EPA to Follow Current Science

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

CITY HALL, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2019/05/03: Hundreds students took part in the School Strike for Climate on May 3, 2019 in New York City, joining over 500 events worldwide. The students held a rally and perform a die in outside City Hall to bring attention to Mayor De Blasio's inaction to declare a climate emergency. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Press Release July 18, 2019

Environmental Justice and National Environmental Groups Advance a Historic Joint Climate Platform

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

CITY HALL, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2019/05/03: Hundreds students took part in the School Strike for Climate on May 3, 2019 in New York City, joining over 500 events worldwide. The students held a rally and perform a die in outside City Hall to bring attention to Mayor De Blasio's inaction to declare a climate emergency. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Press Release July 18, 2019

Grupos Ambientales Nacionales y de Justicia Ambiental Promueven Una Histórica Plataforma Climática Conjunta

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

"Women have to be the fiercest," says Maria Lopez-Nuñez. She is fighting for environmental justice in Newark, NJ's Ironbound neighborhood.
(Brian W. Fraser)
Article March 7, 2021

These Women Environmental Leaders Are Fighting For Their Communities

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

Article August 12, 2021

50 for 50: Level up Your Environmental Advocacy With Earthjustice Today

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

Document January 3, 2022

Petition for Writ of Mandamus — East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice et al.

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)

Document June 21, 2021

New Jersey: Advanced Clean Trucks Program and Fleet Reporting Requirements Proposed Rule DEP Docket No. 05-21-03

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).

Document February 24, 2021

New Jersey’s Dirty Secret: The Injustice of Incinerators and Trash Energy in New Jersey’s Frontline Communities

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