The Latest On: Healthy Communities
Environmentalists, Industry File Dueling Suits Over EPA Ethylene Air Rule
Earthjustice Petitions EPA To Void Remediation Waiver In Air Toxic Rule
New York’s Plastic Bag Ban has Survived the Pandemic
Victoria Bogdan Tejeda, Attorney, Northeast Regional Office, Earthjustice: “We see the use of plastic bags as a climate change and community health problem. [Thicker plastic bags were] not what the legislature intended…. It wanted to end the use of plastic bags, full stop.”
Lt. General Who Led Katrina Evacuations Warns Of Pollution Risk From Climate-Driven Extreme Weather Following Hurricane Laura
Michael Brown, Attorney, Fossil Fuel Program, Earthjustice: “Since [Hurricane] Harvey, the petrochemical and oil and gas industry have had a massive build-out plan for the Gulf Coast. They’ve been adding more infrastructure, including in Lake Charles, intending that these plants will exist for 30-50 years without addressing the increasing climate risk they are going to be facing from storms like we saw this week.”
The Rise of Environmental Justice
Jill Tauber, VP of Litigation for Climate & Energy, Earthjustice: “Environmental groups have had to look within and wrestle with the ways we have functioned within and contributed to the grave injustices and inequities of structural racism.”