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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 3, 2022 | Press Release

Gulf Communities Celebrate Blow to Proposed Offshore Oil Terminal and Vow to Keep Fighting

Oil company must revise air permits to reduce dangerous emissions that threaten Texas Gulf Coast communities

September 28, 2022 | Feature

Radford Arsenal: Toxic Contamination from Open Burning and Open Detonation

At military bases across the country, the Department of Defense has for decades relied on a practice known as open burn / open detonation to destroy excess, unserviceable, or obsolete military munitions.

September 28, 2022 | Report

An Explosive Problem: The Radford Arsenal’s Toxic Operations

A report by by Earthjustice’s Community Partnerships Program and the Center for Progressive Reform in partnership with Citizens for Arsenal Accountability.

September 23, 2022 | Report

The Energy Bomb: How Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrency Mining Worsens the Climate Crisis and Harms Communities Now

A report from Earthjustice and Sierra Club explains how proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining is an extremely energy-intensive process that threatens the ability of governments across the globe to reduce our dependence on climate-warming fossil fuels.

September 23, 2022 | Feature

The Environmental Impacts of Cryptomining

In the first comprehensive documentation of the explosive growth of cryptocurrency mining in the United States, a new guidebook examines how this industry is impacting utilities, energy systems, emissions, communities and ratepayers.

September 22, 2022 | Fact Sheet

New Jersey's Dirty Secret, Additional Information

Since the release of the New Jersey's Dirty Secret report, additional information has become available from energy years 2019 to 2021 regarding the amount of subsidies that New Jersey incinerators are receiving under the state's RPS program. Currently, New Jersey incinerators have received over $50 million in subsidies since 2004.

September 21, 2022 | Article

Two Big Wins Against Petrochemical Pollution — and a $85M Boost for the Communities Fighting It

Recent victories show how communities can fight back against the dirty petrochemical industry.

September 20, 2022 | In the News: San Francisco Chronicle

Lawsuit threatened over EtO emissions, Council votes for air monitors

Raul Garcia, Legislative Director, Policy & Legislation, Earthjustice: “The consequences are very real … because what we are seeing is direct impacts to those communities and to those very children. I think the EPA needs to learn from those communities like the one in Laredo that is standing up for themselves. They need to realize this issue is not going away. The community continues to put pressure on them, and we’ll take them to court if we have to.”

September 20, 2022 | Press Release

Communities get EPA to rein in cities’ smog pollution

EPA must do more as it reconsiders smog standards