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The Trump administration illegally ordered this coal-fired power plant in Washington State to stay open past retirement in December 2025. This is part of a broader policy to prop up coal that is driving up electricity costs. (Steven Baltakatei Sandoval / CC BY-SA 4.0)
Press Release January 14, 2026

Public Interest Groups Challenge Trump Administration Order to Keep Washington’s Last Coal Plant Operating

DOE’s order disrupts a long-planned shutdown of a coal plant in Centralia, Washington, designed to provide state residents with cleaner air and affordable, reliable, clean energy

Press Release January 9, 2026

EPA Rejects Colorado’s Regional Haze Plan, Including Coal Plant Retirement Dates

Trump administration continues to undermine Colorado’s efforts to turn the page on coal

document January 5, 2026

Ash Grove Notice of Appeal

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.

Duwamish River Community Coalition Clean Air Program Manager and Climate Policy Analyst, Mia Ayala-Marshall, speaks during a protest in front of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency as they fight a permit modification proposal that would allow the Ash Grove Cement Company to burn more tires at its facility along the Duwamish Waterway in Seattle on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (Jason Redmond for Earthjustice)
Press Release January 5, 2026

Groups File Appeal to Limit Tire Burning for Fuel at Seattle Cement Plant

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

document December 18, 2025

EPA Abandoning Its Defense of the Soot Standard: Opposition Letter

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 refinery is seen at sunset on June 18, 2025 in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
From the Experts December 17, 2025

Breathing the Consequences: EPA’s Refusal to Implement Strengthened Soot Standard Endangers Public Health

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.

document December 17, 2025

Assessing 2024 PM2.5 Standard Implementation So Far: Who’s on Track to Get Clean Air and Who’s Left Behind

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.

The Washington County courthouse in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
(Joel Carillet / Getty Images)
From the Experts December 15, 2025

The Laws Still Exist, the Consequences Don’t: America’s Vanishing Environmental Enforcement

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

document December 10, 2025

Opposition to H.R. 6373 (Air Permitting Improvements to Protect National Security Act)

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.”

document December 3, 2025

Petition for Review of Methane Compliance Rule

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.

Press Release November 25, 2025

Trump’s EPA Abandons Defense of National Soot Standard That Saves Lives

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

document November 24, 2025

EPA’s Motion to Vacate PM NAAQS

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.

Members of the Hyperbolics mime holding up the U.S. Capitol building. Emotions were high after a full day of advocating for reducing lead exposure and lead poisoning for kids just like them.
(Matt Roth for Earthjustice)
Article November 10, 2025

Protecting Americans’ Health Starts with Fixing Our Country’s Lead Problem

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.

Empire State Building and Manhattan skyline, New York City. Buildings are the city’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. (Matteo Colombo / Getty Images)
feature October 22, 2025

Northeast Regional Report Fall 2025

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.

This map is a subset that shows where the more than 500 exemption facilities are located throughout the country, whether they (or a representative) have requested or been granted a pollution exemption, and more. Map developed by Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Integrity Project.
Press Release October 22, 2025

Community, Health, and Environmental Groups Sue to Stop Trump Administration’s Toxic Air Pollution Exemptions

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

Ley de Entregas Limpias de Nueva York | Manifestación con la Coalición ElectrifyNY el 1 de octubre de 2025. (Michelle Stockwell / Earthjustice)
Press Release October 1, 2025

Legisladores y Defensores de Nueva York Exigen Acción Estatal contra la Contaminación de Grandes Centros de Comercio Electrónico

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

NY Clean Deliveries Act rally with ElectrifyNY Coalition on October 1, 2025. (Michelle Stockwell / Earthjustice)
Press Release October 1, 2025

NY Lawmakers and Advocates Call for State Action on E-commerce Mega-warehouse Pollution

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

Kids take a break in a swimming pool in the shadow of the James H. Miller, Jr., coal-fired power plant in Adamsville, Ala. The Trump administration has exempted the plant from pollution limits set in the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Press Release September 29, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Coal Industry Giveaways

Americans will foot the bill for dirty fossil fuel power