The Latest On: Air
August 19, 2019
| In the News: Mother Jones
Inside the Battle to Stop Another Petrochemical Plant in “Cancer Alley”
Corinne Van Dalen, Attorney, Earthjustice: “While the parish council is responsible for making this community a sacrifice zone, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has the duty as a public trustee to protect the community from environmental harm.”
August 6, 2019
| In the News: Bloomberg Law
Largest Sources of Cancer-Causing Ethylene Oxide Go Unnoticed
Emma Cheuse, Attorney, Earthjustice: “The facts are clear. Communities of color and low-income earners in Louisiana, Texas, West Virginia, and other parts of Illinois are facing the same or greater threats of cancer as are the people in Willowbrook, Illinois. EPA has to strengthen protections against toxic chemicals in these communities. These communities are calling on EPA to do its job.”
August 1, 2019
| In the News: KQED
West Oakland Advocates Unhappy With EPA, City Agreement on Dirty Air
Michelle Ghafar, Attorney, Earthjustice: “The EPA folks, the D.C. folks, they don’t really know what is happening on the ground here in West Oakland with the state of the air quality and diesel pollution.”
July 15, 2019
| In the News: Desert Sun
Newsom Names Former Exxon Staffer To LA Air Pollution Post, A Day After Ousting Head Of State Oil Agency
Adrian Martinez, Attorney, California Regional Office: “This is a terrible choice for our health and well-being. The agency responsible for clean air for half of Californians needs more health voices who will show up and do the job, not more leaders who are cozy with heavily polluting industries.”
July 12, 2019
| In the News: New York Times
E.P.A. Plans to Curtail the Ability of Communities to Oppose Pollution Permits
Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation, Washington, D.C.: “What E.P.A. is proposing means communities and families no longer have the right to appeal a pollution permit that might affect them.”
