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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will revisit lead ammunition decision in Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Local and national conservation groups announced an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that will result in the Service revisiting an earlier decision to cancel a phase out of lead ammunition on Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge in West Virginia.

Republicans take power with an agenda that will benefit polluters big time at the expense of communities and weakened protections for air and water.

Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation, Earthjustice: “This long-overdue action is a game changer in the fight against lead exposure, a silent threat that endangers lives at even the smallest trace.”

La norma final de la agencia establece requisitos más estrictos para identificar y limpiar la pintura con plomo

Agency’s final rule places stronger requirements for identifying and cleaning up lead paint

After a decades-long battle, the EPA has adopted a rule that would deem any amount of lead dust found in schools, daycares, and homes to be a “lead hazard.”

The Lead and Copper Rule Improvements rule requires the proactive replacement of most lead service lines nationwide within the next 10 years, improves sampling methods to more accurately measure lead levels, and will force more water systems to take immediate action to address lead contamination.

After years of advocacy by Earthjustice and our partners, a newly updated EPA rule requires almost all lead pipes in the U.S. to be replaced within a decade.

Las Mejoras en el Plomo y Cobre exigen que las líneas de servicio se reemplacen por completo en un plazo de 10 años

Lead and Copper Rule improvements are a critical tool for safeguarding our drinking water

Toxic gold mining along rivers crossing the British Columbia-Alaska border threatens critical ecosystems and the sovereign rights of Alaska Native communities.

The agency’s final coke ovens rule does not reduce enough toxic air pollution to protect nearby communities

Open detonation releases toxic chemicals into environment and threatens human health

Angela Johnson Meszaros, Managing Attorney, Community Partnerships Program: “We’ve been working with them eight years, and the community learns about it by reading the notice in the newspaper. Really? People are literally breathing hazardous materials and they are in their homes and yards and schools and bodies. And they just deserve better.”

Earthjustice sued the EPA for failing to ban lead wheel weights, small metal bars that help balance tires but shed toxic lead into our air, water, and soil.

La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos estableció un precedente importante para la fiscalización de la contaminación industrial por parte de los Estados.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights set an important precedent for state oversight of industrial pollution.