An environmental justice coalition in Colorado is fighting for the strongest possible clean trucks package

Supplement to FL Rising Civil Rights Complaint

A victory for Brooklyn communities and climate justice; Public Service Commission decision denies National Grid’s proposal to build the unnecessary fracked gas vaporizers in North Brooklyn, following a three-year fight

The Good Neighbor Rule will require 23 states to clean up their smog-forming emissions

New rule ensures gradual transition to more efficient electric heat pumps, and is likely to set a trend in other regions

For over a decade, the South Coast Air Quality Management District has enabled the oil industry to pollute communities of color by giving major stationary sources a free pass on compliance with section 185 of the Clean Air Act.

Communities of color in California’s South Coast Air Basin are tired of holding their breath.

Angela Johnson Meszaros, Managing Attorney, Community Partnerships Program, Earthjustice: “If they can’t comply with the requirements, the city can petition the court to declare them a nuisance. Nuisance operations have to be corrected or shut down.”

The rule requires states to reduce power plant pollution that contributes to unhealthy smog levels in downwind states

New York Electric Vehicle Sales Requirement will Improve Air Quality, Protect Public Health

Reducing mercury and air toxins emissions has saved more than 11,000 lives and a stronger standard could prevent even more deaths

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Regional Office: “For years, the railroads have fought all kinds of basic safety regulations — modern braking systems, stronger tank cars for explosive materials, even information about what’s on trains passing through communities — based on an argument that it simply costs too much to protect our lives, health, and…

Five community groups respond to Ajax in a final briefing before the Genesee County Circuit Court. The groups are appealing a decision by Michigan’s environmental agency to allow the Ajax corporation to install a toxic asphalt plant in a predominantly Black, low-income, and environmentally overburdened neighborhood.

Here’s what we know now and what officials should do to help the people affected by this catastrophe.

East Palestine residents have been exposed to exuberant amounts of toxic chemicals in contaminated air and water following the explosion of a chemical-carrying cargo train

Electric garbage trucks will play a key role in California’s clean air and climate future.

Fifty environmental, Indigenous, and justice organizations sent a letter to House Natural Resources Committee Chair Bruce Westerman, Ranking Member Raúl Grijalva, and the members of the committee urging for strong mining reforms to protect people and special places from the environmental and health impacts of poorly regulated mining.

Ahead of House Natural Resources hearing, environmental organizations urge Congress to put people over polluters and protect communities and special places