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

Companies use affirmative defense to avoid the consequences of releasing unlimited amounts of toxic emissions during emergencies

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.

Exposure to fine particle pollution causes a range of health harms, such as increased infant mortality, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, asthma attacks, diabetes, dementia, and premature death.

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.

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

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.

Earthjustice partners with communities around the country to fight for a safe, just, and healthy environment.

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

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 this Court 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.

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

Plaintiff nonprofit groups East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Ironbound Community Corporation, and Sierra Club seek to compel Defendants U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Michael S. Regan, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to complete the decade-late review and revision of the performance standards and other requirements for large municipal solid waste incineration units as required by the Clean Air Act.

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)