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

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.

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

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.

Testimony of Raul Garcia, Legislative Director for Healthy Communities, Earthjustice, before the United States House of Representatives Joint Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee and Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Legislative Hearing: “Unleashing American Energy, Lowering Energy Costs, and Strengthening Supply Chains.”

Brief in Genesee County Circuit Court responds to Ajax’s arguments, which ask the court to undo the modest pollution controls included in their permit.

A pesar de la creciente evidencia científica, la EPA propone protecciones de salud pública insuficientes

A new EPA standard for PM 2.5 falls short. We need your help to push the EPA to do better.

Despite strong scientific consensus, EPA proposes lackluster public health protections

Community advocates demand meaningful action to address ozone pollution

Fenceline communities are exposed to these carcinogens every day

Groups sue to demand stronger air standards after agency repeatedly missed deadlines, despite knowing the serious health risks

Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over EPA’s failure to take legally required action to protect the public from harmful carcinogenic air emissions from ethylene oxide sterilization facilities. The Clean Air Act directs the EPA to review its ethylene oxide standards every eight years, but the agency has repeatedly missed this deadline; first in 2014 and again in April 2022. Now we are suing on behalf of environmental and health groups to compel EPA to finally act and protect vulnerable communities across the country.

James Pew, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office, Earthjustice: “This whole fight at the local, state, and federal levels is about getting gasification and pyrolysis incinerators rebranded as non-incinerators so they can … avoid installing pollution controls and monitoring and reporting their emissions. EPA’s regulations have defined facilities like Fulcrum as incinerators for almost 30 years.”

Court says advocates can intervene to hold Southeast Michigan polluter directly accountable

GreenLatinos, Womxn from the Mountain, Healthy Air and Water Colorado, and Madhvi4EcoEthics have raised significant concerns with the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division’s draft Moderate/Severe Ozone State Implementation Plan (draft SIP).

Community groups point to Michigan’s history of racial discrimination in environmental permitting

Members of the Coalition to Stop Ajax Asphalt Plant present arguments to the Genesee County Circuit Court to appeal 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.