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The Duwamish River Community Coalition and Front and Centered, represented by Earthjustice, filed an appeal seeking to overturn a regional air agency decision allowing the Ash Grove Cement Company to burn more tires for fuel at its Seattle plant.

Community groups seek to overturn an illegal air permit that would allow more tire burning resulting in severe health harms to nearby residents

106 groups oppose EPA abandoning its defense of national health-protective pollution standards for fine particulate matter, also known as PM2.5 or soot.

A February 2026 deadline calls for EPA to address air pollution from soot, but it appears the agency has taken few steps, if any, to do so.

In 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) adopted a rule that would initiate a series of actions to reduce exposure to harmful levels of fine particulate matter. This paper assesses where EPA stands in the process of implementing that rule and shines a light on why it is so important to faithfully implement it, as Congress mandated EPA to do under the Clean Air Act.

With environmental enforcement at a historic low, it’s open season for polluters.

The legislation would undo longstanding protections under the Clean Air Act, undermine children’s health, and institutionalize a dangerous precedent of executive overreach under the pretext of “national security.”

Health, environment, and community groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency’s rushed and unlawful final rule to delay protections against methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

Abandoning soot standards would cause more asthma attacks, heart disease, and early death — especially in vulnerable communities

The Environmental Protection Agency’s court filing asks the U.S, Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to strike down the soot standard.

Lead Poisoning Prevention Week is a reminder that people living in the United States are still regularly exposed to multiple sources of lead in their lives.

In the Northeast, our work is helping to keep us moving forward in the fight for environmental and climate justice, clean air and water, and the right to a healthy environment for all.

Lawsuit challenges unprecedented presidential carve-out that lets 50 chemical plants spew cancer-causing pollutants for two more years

Ante la debilitación de protecciones federales a la calidad del aire, Nyeva York debe tomar medidas para combatir la contaminación de los camiones diésel y proteger la salud pública con la Ley de Entregas Limpias

As the federal government guts air quality protections, NY must step up to tackle pollution from diesel trucks and protect public health by passing the Clean Deliveries Act

Americans will foot the bill for dirty fossil fuel power

Groups filed a rehearing request to FERC in September 2025 requesting that it rescind its approval of the Rio Grande LNG terminal and pipeline.

The Northern Cheyenne have a long history of defending their land. Now, they’re showing how clean energy progress can still be made.