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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.

March 20, 2020 | In the News: Bloomberg Law

Companies Asking EPA for ‘Act of God’ Extensions Due to Virus

David Baron, Managing Attorney, Washington, D.C., Earthjustice: “These deadlines, after all, are meant to protect people from dangerous health threats from pollution — threats that are major concerns in addition to Covid-19. The burden needs to be on the industry seeking relief to show that inability to comply in a specific case is due to Covid-19, not failure of the industry to timely install or maintain required pollution controls.”

March 18, 2020 | Legal Document

Valley Air District Rules on refinery Emissions Complaint

California has the largest concentration of petroleum refineries in the western United States, and the third largest number of refineries in the nation after Texas and Louisiana. These refineries are scattered throughout the state, from urban areas such as Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area to rural communities in central California’s San Joaquin Valley. Refineries in the San Joaquin Valley are concentrated in and around Bakersfield within Kern County, the largest oil-producing and most polluted county in the state. This region suffers from the worst air quality in the United States, including harmful levels of lung-searing ozone that compromises lung development in children and causes other health complications. Oil and gas operations in the region exacerbate these unhealthy air conditions.

March 18, 2020 | Press Release

Central Valley Communities Fight to Hold Petroleum Refineries Accountable

Communities challenge Valley Air’s dangerous air monitoring exemptions

March 18, 2020 | Press Release

Report: Trump’s EPA sued for concealing health studies, violating its chemical laws

Agency breaks Toxic Substances Control Act rules constantly

March 17, 2020 | Press Release

Can California Meet Its Electric Trucks Goals?

Analysis shows CARB would need to significantly strengthen the nation’s first electric truck standard to meet its stated targets

March 16, 2020 | Letter

ACT Coalition Electric Truck Charging Infrastructure Letter

This letter in response to questions Board Members asked at the December 12, 2019 California Air Resource Board meeting, and in support of the strongest possible Advanced Clean Truck Rule.

March 16, 2020 | Letter

Comments on Changes to Proposed Advanced Clean Truck Regulation

This letter is a follow-up to CARB’s February 20th workshop on proposed changes to the Advanced Clean Truck Regulation. At the December 12th Board hearing, a groundswell of public commenters urged CARB not to squander the rule’s potential to alleviate one of the largest pollution burdens in frontline communities. Consequently, a majority of Board Members directed Staff to strengthen the rule, ensure its consistency with the State’s air and climate targets, and accelerate benefits for disadvantaged communities.

March 2, 2020 | In the News: WCPO

EPA Settles More Than a Decade Of Pollution Claims Against Zimmer Power Plant For $600K

Thomas Cmar, Deputy Managing Attorney, Coal Program, Earthjustice: “What’s most significant about this settlement is it appears the EPA caught the company red-handed not using the controls they already had in place.”

February 21, 2020 | In the News: Grist

This Tiny But Mighty California Bureau is Taking on Polluters

Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, California Regional Office, Earthjustice: “This case is perfectly illustrative of why you need an environmental justice bureau in the state attorney general’s office.”