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Gerald Gentleman causes visible air pollution at iconic places such as Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
(Von Fumetti / CC BY 2.0)
Press Release January 19, 2017

EPA Proposes Long-Overdue Rule To Clean Up the Largest Air Polluter in Nebraska

National parks, wilderness areas, and public health to benefit from lower emissions from Gerald Gentleman coal plant

feature August 4, 2021

Organophosphate Pesticides in the United States

Find out what foods have high residues of these pesticide, where they are used, and how we are exposed.

This Arbor Day, we’re celebrating with five fun facts about trees, along with the various ways that Earthjustice is working to save these invaluable organisms.
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Article April 29, 2016

Five (True!) Tall Tales About Trees

This Arbor Day, we’re celebrating the holiday with five fun facts about trees, along with a list of the various ways that Earthjustice is working to save these invaluable organisms.

Tom Waldo, one of the legal architects of Earthjustice's Roadless Rule strategy, walks through a field of fireweed near Juneau, Alaska.
(Michael Penn for Earthjustice)
Article: Victory September 28, 2017

Earthjustice wins 16-year-long battle to protect 50 million acres of forests

Latest court ruling upholds Roadless Rule protections for almost 50 million acres of wild lands.

Article August 19, 2009

On The Green Road Through Middle America

Earthjustice president sees firsthand environmental bests and worsts

Toxic coal ash dust at the Making Money Having Fun Landfill in Bokoshe, OK.
(Photo used with permission)
Press Release February 7, 2018

New Industry Data Confirms Toxics are Polluting Groundwater at Coal Ash Dumps

EPA’s coal ash rule requires utilities to test groundwater — initial results are alarming

A farmworker spraying pesticides in a soybean field.
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Press Release April 20, 2015

Coalition Challenges Expansion of Hazardous Herbicide Containing Agent Orange Ingredient

EPA allows nine additional states to use toxic 2,4-D on GE corn and soy crops

Press Release: Victory August 27, 2009

Rare Bird Wins Second Chance at Protection

Groups settle suit to obtain Endangered Species Act protection for Mountain Plover

Stars illuminate the landscape of Bears Ears National Monument.
(Photo Courtesy of Marc Toso)
Article June 12, 2017

Why Patagonia Joined the National Monuments Fight

Patagonia steps into the legal arena to protect America's wild spaces.

In 1974, abandoned automobiles and other debris clutter an acid water- and oil-filled five-acre pond near Ogden, Utah. Without strong environmental safeguards, the interests of polluters will trump public health every time.
(U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION)
Article April 13, 2017

Water 'Too Thick to Drink, Too Thin to Plow'

Without strong environmental safeguards, the interests of polluters will trump public health every time.

More than 30 states have joined polluting industries, corporate agribusinesses and mega-developers in attacking the EPA’s Clean Water Rule.
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Article February 28, 2017

The Dirty 31: Is Your State Arguing Against Clean Water?

More than 30 states have joined polluting industries, corporate agribusinesses and mega-developers in attacking the EPA’s Clean Water Rule.

Split view of clear and hazy days in Shenandoah National Park.
(National Park Service)
Article October 5, 2015

EPA Must Do More for Clean Air in Parks

The Third Circuit orders the EPA to protect national parks from Pennsylvania air pollution.

Article December 22, 2011

Friday Finds: Monsanto’s Ministry of Truth

Pesticide-resistant bugs eat Monsanto’s crops, lies & profits Monsanto is taking a page from George Orwell’s 1984 with the recent release of an EPA report that chides the biotech company for not adequately monitoring its pesticide-resistant crops, reports Mother Jones. According to the agency’s report, a pesky bug known as corn rootworm is rising up…

Article November 19, 2008

The Obama Dawning

This blog posting by Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen appeared this week in Celsias. For all Americans who care about our environment, which is most of us, a hopeful dawn broke with the election of Barack Obama. During the last eight years the administration did everything it could to privatize the great natural areas in…

staff September 27, 2021

Thien Chau

Thien Chau is an associate attorney with the Community Partnerships program.

A sign, placed by the EPA, warns people not to play on the lawn at the West Calumet Housing Complex on April 19, 2017, in East Chicago, Indiana. Nearly all the residents of the complex were ordered to move by the East Chicago Housing Authority after the soil and many homes were found to contain high levels of lead. The area has been declared an EPA Superfund site.
(Scott Olson / Getty Images)
Press Release June 30, 2020

Most U.S. Hazardous Waste Sites in Close Proximity to Federally Funded Housing

New report calls for impacted families living in affordable housing to drive the change to this urgent and ongoing environmental and health crisis

The whooping crane is one of the most endangered animals on earth. EPA admitted that during their migration, whooping cranes “will stop to eat and may consume arthropod prey” that may have been exposed to 2,4-D, and that in sufficient amounts, such exposure is toxic to the cranes.
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Press Release November 25, 2015

EPA Pulls Registration for Dow’s Enlist Duo Herbicide Citing High Toxicity Levels

Toxic pesticide banned on genetically engineered crops

The whooping crane is one of the most endangered animals on earth. EPA admitted that during their migration, whooping cranes “will stop to eat and may consume arthropod prey” that may have been exposed to 2,4-D, and that in sufficient amounts, such exposure is toxic to the cranes.
(John Noll / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Press Release February 9, 2015

EPA Approval of Dow’s Enlist Duo Herbicide Violates Endangered Species Act

Lawsuit filed to protect endangered whooping crane and Indiana bat from toxic herbicide to be used on genetically engineered crops