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Map of soot air pollution by county in 2023. (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature May 9, 2025

Mapping Soot and Smog Pollution in the United States

How is the air where you live?

Map of smog air pollution by county in 2022. (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature May 9, 2025

What’s the state of smog pollution where you live?

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.

Map of soot air pollution by county in 2023. (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature May 9, 2025

What’s the state of soot pollution where you live?

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

<a href="https://clausa.app.carto.com/map/bf8b6eb1-9904-4c34-9a0b-00bacd4f6582" target="_blank" class="a_color--black">Use this map</a> to understand where coal ash is stored near you. This map displays the locations of current and former coal plants with coal ash dumps. The dumps were identified using data gathered by EPA and self-reported by the coal industry. (Caroline Weinberg / Earthjustice)
feature April 17, 2025

Where are Coal Ash Dump Sites?

Use this map to understand where coal ash might be stored near you.

Clockwise from top left: Laura Beth Resnick of Butterbee Farm. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice) Controlled burn during BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. (Petty Officer First Class John Masson / U.S. Coast Guard) Subway train on the 7 line in Queens, New York City. (Marco Bottigelli / Getty Images) An oil-coated feather on a Florida beach in 2010, following the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. (Tech. Sgt. Emily F. Alley / U.S. Air Force)
feature May 12, 2025

Our Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration

We will defend the progress we have made and keep moving forward.

Projected lead service lines in the United States. (Casey Chin / Earthjustice. Data: EPA)
feature April 11, 2025

Attacks on Lead Protections Threaten Nation’s Drinking Water

The Trump administration and certain members of Congress are trying to roll back protections for lead in drinking water. But there are ways to fight back.

The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature May 7, 2025

Biodiversity and Ecosystems Program Report

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.

In the News: Newsday March 3, 2025

DEC to Brookhaven: Rewrite report discounting landfill’s role as toxic plume source

Hillary Aidun, Attorney, Northeast Office: “The reason that DEC required Brookhaven to do this analysis in the first place is that the town owns the landfill, and PFAS is coming from the landfill.”

The Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, an ethylene cracker plant, on the Ohio River in Potter Township, Pennsylvania. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release March 27, 2025

Trump’s EPA Offers Corporations a Roadmap to Sidestep Clean Air Protections

Move would allow chemical facilities, coal plants, and other large polluters to emit more toxic air pollution with no public transparency

Linda Robles, founder of Environmental Justice Task Force, poses for a portrait in her home in Tucson, Ariz. (Mamta Popat for Earthjustice)
Article March 11, 2025

Her Family Moved to Escape This Deadly Chemical — But It Followed

Lawmakers are trying to overturn a ban on trichloroethylene, a widely-used solvent linked to cancer and Parkinson’s disease. Here’s what it is, and one family’s story after being exposed.

feature August 4, 2021

Maps: Organophosphate Pesticides in the U.S.

Visualizing the widespread extent of agricultural pesticide usage for 14 of the most harmful organophosphate pesticides.

Children play at Arvin's “Garden in the Sun” playground. There are several oil wells near the park. (Tara Pixley for Earthjustice)
From the Experts December 19, 2024

California’s Roadmap to Protect Communities and Public Health from Oil and Gas Drilling

A public health expert panel report gives Californians a critical new tool in the years-long fight for setbacks from oil and gas drilling.

More than 100,000 Native American archaeological and cultural sites, some dating to 12,000 B.C., are protected in Bears Ears National Monument. (Steven St. John for Earthjustice)
feature April 24, 2025

What You Should Know About the Antiquities Act and National Monuments

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

After years of inaction by the federal government, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed long-overdue limits on six PFAS in drinking water. (Getty Images)
feature April 19, 2024

Inside EPA’s Roadmap on Regulating PFAS Chemicals

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

On August 6, 2012, a fire and explosion at a Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. caused 15,000 people to seek medical treatment. (Nick Fullerton / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release March 6, 2025

Trump Administration Moves to Redo Chemical Disasters Safety Protections, Putting Millions at Risk

Half the U.S. population lives in harm’s way as Trump’s EPA says it’s starting over again on safety

Press Release October 17, 2024

Polis Administration Gives Oil and Gas Industry Roadmap for Expanding Neighborhood Drilling in Disproportionately Impacted Communities

State oil and gas agency adopts rules that undercut 2024 legislation to better protect disproportionately impacted communities and address cumulative impacts

Children often experience greater exposure to chlorpyrifos because they eat more fruit for their weight relative to adults. (Annette Dubois / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release December 2, 2024

EPA Proposes Limited Ban on Chlorpyrifos Pesticide

Proposed rule allows continued use of neurotoxic pesticide on 11 crops, despite links to irreversible harm in children

Carbon dioxide leaks out of a high-pressure CO2 pipeline north of Sulphur, Louisiana. Residents in a quarter mile radius of the leak were told to shelter in place. (Calcasieu Parish Police Jury)
From the Experts September 25, 2024

Carbon dioxide pipelines: a dangerous part of Appalachia’s proposed carbon capture boondoggle

Local, state, and federal authorities must take action to ensure the safer construction and operation of CO2 pipelines.