The rule would prohibit dozens of widespread methylene chloride uses, restrict others

Earthjustice’s challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to allow Chevron USA to manufacture highly carcinogenic chemicals to make fuels.

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “This is the broadest and most direct assault on the 2016 TSCA amendments since they were passed.”

Earthjustice urges House of Representatives to reject H.R. 1

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.”

Dozens of countries have banned paraquat because of its toxicity to the human nervous system and other health risks

Community and advocacy groups petition agency to take 600 PFAS off the market immediately

Earthjustice, on behalf of a coalition of environmental organizations and community advocates, filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging the agency to revoke the approval and order manufacturers to take off the market 600 PFAS — about half of the PFAS in commerce. EPA approved these toxic “forever chemicals” and allowed them to be sold through illegal use of exemptions in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

On October 20, 2021, EPA released the final 2020 Toxics Release Inventory (“TRI”) dataset. This dataset reflects information submitted to EPA in the first TRI reporting cycle since per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) were added to the TRI by the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.

Three national advocacy organizations represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal court, to force the agency to close illegal loopholes that let chemical plants and military bases across the United States avoid disclosing their PFAS emissions into the environment during manufacturing or use of these cancer-causing chemicals

Companies and military bases keep their PFAS pollution secret thanks to EPA-created loopholes

Eve Gartner, Managing Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “It is not easy to keep selling your chemicals when people know they likely cause cancer or other serious disease.”

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “None of the first 10 risk evaluations satisfied EPA’s statutory obligations or provided a complete and accurate picture of the chemicals’ true risks.”

Despite health risk, EPA grants exemptions for approving new toxic “forever chemicals”

Regulating toxic chemicals is essential for the health and safety of communities across the country

A diverse coalition, advocating for stronger health protections from the toxic and persistent flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (DecaBDE) and represented by Earthjustice, are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating a federal law that requires EPA to take all practicable measures to limit exposure to some of the most dangerous chemicals in commerce. The…

No one ever told me I was moving onto the polluted grounds of an old lead refinery.