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Groups challenge unlawful order that let 68 power plants avoid mercury and arsenic limits

Kern’s Board of Supervisors to vote on the ordinance by the end of June after a decade of community objection and legal challenges

Sixty-eight coal plants can now release more mercury, arsenic, and other heavy metals known to damage children’s brain development, trigger asthma attacks, and cause cancer.

Community and environmental groups represented by Earthjustice sued the Trump administration over its unlawful decision to exempt dozens of coal-fired power plants from stronger pollution limits set in the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS. The exemptions, issued in April, allow 68 coal power plants to release more mercury, arsenic, and other heavy metals known to damage children’s brain development, trigger asthma attacks, and cause cancer.

Using a loophole, the Trump administration exempted coal power plants from mercury and arsenic limits, polluting the air we breathe.

EPA seeks to end limits on mercury and arsenic and climate pollution, increasing harm to communities and reversing progress on climate action

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

Assembly must pass clean air and public health bill now

The LA County Electric Truck & Bus Coalition expresses strong opposition to the Governor’s proposal to cut $201.1 million in funding from Los Angeles Metro’s Zero Emission Transit Capital Program (ZETCP) in the FY 25–26 budget.

Standards for residential furnaces and water heaters would have saved thousands of lives, billions in health costs

Department of Energy’s abuse of power charges consumers for an emergency that doesn’t exist.

Attacks on clean air don’t just threaten the environment — they harm our health.

Canada wildfires to cover Northeast skies as New York legislators return to Albany with days left in session, clean air and climate legislation remain on the table

Leasing more of our public lands to coal companies and padding their bottom lines will do nothing to promote energy security or reduce costs for everyday Americans.

AB 914 will give California a vital tool to clean its air

A Republican-run Congress attempted to repeal lead exposure protections, endangering millions of lives in the U.S. We fought back — and won.

The U.K. wood pellet manufacturer pollutes low-income U.S. communities

Poor, Black, and rural communities in the South are disproportionately affected.