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Search by county to see the level of smog pollution in the air. Smog can trigger asthma attacks and increase the risk of heart and lung diseases.

Search by county to see the level of soot pollution in the air. Soot causes death and serious health harms.

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at ten power plant sites in Maryland. All but one of these sites include older ash dumps that industry is only now beginning to quantify and monitor.

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 19 coal-burning power plant sites in Texas.

Significant quantities of coal ash are stored at three power plant sites in Massachusetts. All of these sites include older coal ash dumps that industry is only now beginning to quantify and monitor.

The EPA said greenhouse gases are a risk to public health. Trump’s EPA wants to take it back — and undo many of the rules that limit air pollution.

Corinne Van Dalen, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “This is great news for all the groups and community members who have been fighting this ill-conceived project from the start.”

This letter report supplements the July 1, 2022 report prepared for Earthjustice titled, “Clean Alternative Emergency Power Supply for PVSC.”1 The supplement responds to the issuance by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection of the final air permit for the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) Standby Power Generation Facility (SPGF) on April 2, 2025. The purpose is to (1) address new information available since July 2022 and to (2) further review deficiencies in the design and selection of the SPGF as the preferred standby power alternative for the PVSC Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP).

“The bill locks us into a future of fossil fuels and dirty energy instead of modernizing our grid and cleaning up pollution with cheaper clean energy sources and technologies.”

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at five power plant sites in Arizona.

Massive quantities of coal ash are stored at eight power plant sites in North Dakota.

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.

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

Wind power is a clean and affordable energy source for the nation — but the Trump administration has halted most wind development.

Over the last decade, the boom in online shopping and e-commerce has made massive warehouses spring up in New York faster than you can make an online purchase.

Katherine O’Brien, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “Despite calculating very high cancer risks for people in their homes and also fence-line community residents, EPA has completely written off those risks, and set the stage for no regulation to address those risks. That’s deeply disappointing and very hard to comprehend.”