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August 10, 2013 | Video

This Is How Asthma Feels

Millions of Americans suffer from asthma. However, most people don't know how brutal it is to live with the disease. Breathing is a fundamental right, yet every day air pollution affects our right to breathe clean air.

October 17, 2019 | Press Release

Thousands of Californians Demand a Stronger Electric Truck Standard

CARB’s draft rule too weak to make an impact on diesel truck health crisis and climate pollution

October 7, 2019 | In the News: Courthouse News Service

Judges Look Askance at EPA Hand-Off on Permitting

Gordon Sommers, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “We’re not challenging that the number is a little too high or a little too low. It’s the fact that there is a number at all.”

October 1, 2019 | Press Release: Victory

D.C. Circuit Reaffirms EPA’s Obligation to Control Dangerous Cross-State Smog Pollution

Court strikes down EPA rule for failing to eliminate pollution by Clean Air Act deadlines

October 1, 2019 | Legal Document

Close-Out Rule Judgement

These consolidated cases involve a challenge to an Environmental Protection Agency regulation known as the Close-Out Rule. The rule addresses the obligation of upwind states to reduce their contribution of ozone precursors to downwind states, which must attain an ozone pollution standard by certain statutory deadlines.

September 30, 2019 | In the News: BNN Bloomberg

Trump Isn’t Wrong About California’s Smog. But He’s Not Helping

Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, California Office, Earthjustice: “California needs to do more, and to meet clean air standards, we’re going to have to do everything. But the federal government has a large role to play here as well, and under the current administration, EPA has not been helping air quality — they’ve actually been hurting it.”

September 18, 2019 | Press Release

Earthjustice to Trump Administration: We’ll See You in Court Over Car Emissions Standards Rollbacks

Environmental law organization plans to fight back against attack on states’ ability to implement clean car standards

September 17, 2019 | Explainer

The Trump Administration’s Hazy Plans to Weaken Car Pollution Standards Won’t Work. Here’s Why.

Earthjustice attorney Paul Cort explains why Trump’s EPA chief is careening way outside his lane in trying to undo a key provision of the 1970 landmark Clean Air Act.

September 13, 2019 | In the News: StreetsBlog

A Refinery Says It Is Too Small to be Required to Monitor its Emissions

Adrian Martinez, Attorney, California Regional Office: “A small refinery is still a big company. They’re making millions of dollars selling oil.”

September 13, 2019 | Legal Document

Wisconsin v. EPA Ozone Transport Decision

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that U.S. EPA is illegally failing to control ozone pollution — smog — that travels across state lines and contributes to unhealthy air in downwind states. The ruling requires EPA to secure clean air by reducing the pollution emitted by coal-fired power plants and other polluting industries in upwind states — pollution reductions that will save hundreds of lives and prevent hundreds of thousands of asthma attacks every year. The court also rejected arguments by polluting industries and red states that the pollution reductions EPA has already required are too costly.