This report highlights four key issues that EPA must address when updating air emission standards from large municipal solid waste incinerators. Meet three communities exposed to unnecessary risk of harm from EPA’s current, weak rules.

Expanding the Turning Basins: a project that will worsen public health and environmental justice.

Los hallazgos de un nuevo reporte subrayan los peligros que estas instalaciones representan para las comunidades alrededor de Florida

Una documentación de los riesgos para la salud y peligros ambientales, durante las tres semanas del incendio en el incinerador de desechos del Condado de Miami-Dade, entre febrero y marzo de 2023.

Report’s findings underscore the dangers that waste incineration facilities pose to Florida communities

This report details the environmental and public health hazards created by the fire at the Covanta Energy waste incinerator in Doral, FL in February and March 2023.

States are unlawfully allowing more air pollution in already overburdened communities, violating federal public health standards and creating “sacrifice zones”

Petition to EPA under Clean Air Act regarding Significant Impact Levels (SILs) guidance on National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

The Port of Oakland wants to widen its basins, bringing more megaships — and more pollution — to an already overburdened community.

Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program, Earthjustice: “Cumulative impacts reflect the full range of actual risk from a polluting source. That’s how we understand the risk the people are actually exposed to.”

Rule allows polluters to request that any monitoring requirements end after two years

Letter to City of Tacoma on behalf of 350 Tacoma and the South Tacoma Neighborhood Council addressing the question of the City’s authority to conduct a Health Impact Assessment for the proposed Bridge Industrial warehouse project.

New legislation would facilitate the transition to zero-emissions buses while creating high-paying union jobs.

Corte de apelación determinará cómo los grupos comunitarios pueden buscar sanciones civiles por emisiones ilícitas

Fifth Circuit to Determine How Community Groups Can Seek Civil Penalties for Unlawful Emissions

Amicus Brief filed in Environment Texas Citizen Lobby v. ExxonMobil Corp.

Despite vocal opposition from concerned neighbors and environmental and health advocates, the City of Tacoma approved a land use permit for a mega-warehouse project in April 2023, without requiring an Environmental Impact Statement to examine the project’s environmental, health, and community impacts. The South Tacoma location of the mega-warehouse poses serious environmental justice concerns. The…

The plan would pave over a large undeveloped space, increase traffic, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, disturb a former Superfund site, and jeopardize the city’s aquifer.