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The legislation to expands participation in the food donation and food scraps recycling program

Angela Johnson Meszaros, Managing Attorney, Community Partnerships Program: “What they’ve really been denying the community is the ability to really call the question, should this facility, based on its past operation, receive a renewal of its hazardous waste permit? The community’s position is no. And I think that they have the receipts for why the…

Modeling reveals high levels of asthma-causing pollution from Owens-Brockway plant

Not all recycling is as green as it may seem.

The Trump administration is removing climate-related information from government websites, many of which farmers rely on to adapt to increasingly extreme weather.

DecaBDE, linked to cancer and harm to children’s brain development, threatens Indigenous and frontline communities due to inadequate EPA regulations

Transitioning to 100% clean energy is a huge opportunity to power our economy and create good jobs without sacrificing our communities or the climate. Here’s how we do it.

Jim Pew, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office, Earthjustice: “It’s quite simple. If you want to burn municipal waste, meet the Clean Air Act standards for municipal waste incinerators. If you want to burn industrial waste, meet the Clean Air Act standards for industrial waste.”

Black plastic items may contain a deadly flame retardant. We’re suing the government to keep it out of our homes.

Food waste is a top contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. When food waste rots in landfills, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in its global warming strength. According to New York State’s inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, in 2014, landfill emissions made up about 58% of the State’s methane emissions and about 5% of its total greenhouse gas emissions.

New York's legislature passed a strong law banning single-use plastic bags, however, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation proposed regulations that would allow thicker bags to be used, undermining the law. The loophole ultimately increases the lifecycle impacts from plastic bags, from the fossil fuel extraction, to harmful chemical additives, to the bags ending up on streets and oceans, or to later be burned or added to the landfills.

Governor blows up congestion pricing; Assembly fails to pass NY HEAT, Packaging Reduction, and more

Trash burning already accounts for over 13 tons of mercury pollution alone each year

We are advocating for four solutions that together can ensure a sustainable supply chain for critical minerals.

State Department of Health holds public hearing on Lahaina Clean Water Act permit

Proposed new county landfill poses environmental hazards and injustice for west side residents

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