California leads the nation in securing emissions reductions in the transportation sector.

The updates will reduce more than 6,000 tons of the nation’s most harmful air pollution, including the carcinogens ethylene oxide and chloroprene

James Pew, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “The steel companies mounted a real disinformation campaign about the cost of the rule that I think put pressure on EPA to take out some provisions that would have been beneficial.”

Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This moves EPA forward.”

Deadlines set for EPA to take action on 33 states’ plans to reduce haze pollution

After hearing from the public, including 32,000 Earthjustice supporters, the EPA delivered stronger air quality protections.

EPA’s updated soot standards under threat from legal challenges, potentially undermining air quality improvements for years to come

Health, environmental, and community organizations, represented by Earthjustice and Clean Air Task Force, filed to intervene in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent strengthening of an air standard for fine particulate matter pollution, finalized in February. This landmark standard is designed to protect public health and would address environmental injustices but is being challenged in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by major trade associations and 25 states.

James Pew, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “Just getting the EPA to use the authority it has had all along would yield huge benefits.”

Seth Johnson, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “Strengthening a standard is really important. It’s really important to set that benchmark and tell people, ‘This is what counts as safe air.’ But if you don’t know what the air quality actually is, the impact of the standard is going to be not as great as it could…

The ‘Smoggy Skies Act’ would weaken the Clean Air Act, limit the use of science-based decision making, and put the profits of polluting industries over the right to clean air

Here’s what the standards will do for health and climate.

Despite significant industry pushback, EPA takes important step to regulate steel production, one of the worst sources of toxic heavy metal air pollution

The EPA has finalized stronger rules on the cancer-causing emission ethylene oxide.

EPA’s oil and gas methane standards are firmly rooted in science and the law

The exemptions prevent communities from holding air polluters accountable for toxic emissions

The future of the Good Neighbor Plan hangs in the balance, with implications for public health and economic prosperity nationwide.

Legislation will focus on permitting reform, air quality enforcement, additional measures to cut harmful pollution in Colorado