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Weak federal rules allow incinerators to release cancer-causing pollutants into communities of color, harming children’s development before they are even born

Las débiles normativas federales permiten que los incineradores liberen contaminantes cancerígenos en comunidades de color, perjudicando el desarrollo de los niños incluso antes de que nazcan

This lawsuit, filed by Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project on behalf of Sierra Club, Ironbound Community Corporation, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, South Baltimore Community Land Trust, and Florida Rising, argues that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s agency has defied the Clean Air Act by setting incinerator emission standards far weaker than what modern pollution controls can achieve and far weaker than the law requires.

Zeldin promised cleaner air, a stronger economy, and a more efficient EPA. Here’s what a year of cuts actually produced.

The groups are challenging the state’s abysmal EPA-approved Regional Haze Plan

If the Court sides with the chemical industry, cancer patients and farmworkers could lose their only path to compensation when toxic pesticides make them sick

The case is one of thousands brought by people who got non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after applying Monsanto’s Roundup. Two FIFRA regulations will likely loom large at argument.

Petition identifies multiple, serious problems with new information and analysis in final rule

EPA fails to implement its own strengthened air quality standard and missed deadline for identifying areas with soot pollution levels higher than the new acceptable limit

Earthjustice will sue to stop the EPA from rewriting the rules for coal power companies’ toxic sludge

Environmental groups and Alaskan tribes challenge the Trump EPA’s unlawful repeal of the endangerment finding and elimination of vehicle emissions standards

Environmental groups and Alaskan tribes sue the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency for unlawfully repealing the endangerment finding and motor vehicle emissions standards.

EPA’s rulemaking allows 33 highly toxic sources to continue emitting carcinogenic ethylene oxide without limits

Mientras afirma promover la salud, la EPA está eliminando las protecciones contra sustancias químicas tóxicas presentes en el aire, los alimentos y el agua

While claiming to promote health, the EPA is removing protections from toxic chemicals in air, food, and water

EPA fails to protect farmers, truck drivers, and families from the harm of toxic sludge

Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and partner organizations, including the Kentucky Resources Council (KRC) and Earthjustice, have filed briefs in support of an appeal challenging the EPA’s failure to protect communities from PFAS – toxic forever chemicals – in sewage sludge. The appeal – brought by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) – highlights the EPA’s refusal to act despite decades of contaminated sludge being spread on farmland as fertilizer across the country.

Lawsuit challenges rollback that allows more mercury, lead, and other toxic pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants