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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.

December 11, 2019 | In the News: Energy Central

Study: Black, low-income Americans face highest risk from power plant pollution

Neil Gormley, Attorney, Earthjustice: “Scientists are well aware that those particulate matter standards are not sufficiently health-protective — that people are still dying by the thousands from particulate matter exposure, even though officially they live somewhere where the air quality standards are being met.”

December 11, 2019 | In the News: E&E News

Click, Click, Emit—The Carbon Cost of Online Shopping

Sasan Saadat, Research and Policy Analyst, Earthjustice: “Free shipping, free one-day delivery — it’s not free. It comes at the expense of the health of communities that live near warehouses and freight hubs.”

December 4, 2019 | In the News: Bloomberg Environment

Judges Weigh Whether EPA Must Act on Pulp Mill Pollution

November 22, 2019 | Legal Document

California Emissions Waiver Rollback Petition for Review

Earthjustice and Sierra Club, together with a broad coalition of public health and environmental groups, filed a lawsuit against former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler’s Environmental Protection Agency,challenging its revocation of California’s waiver for its greenhouse gas emission standards for new motor vehicles, as well as the state’s zero emission vehicle standards.

November 22, 2019 | Explainer

The Trump Administration’s Hazy Plans to Weaken Car Pollution Standards Won’t Work. Here’s Why.

Earthjustice attorney Paul Cort explains why Trump’s EPA chief is careening way outside his lane in trying to undo a key provision of the 1970 landmark Clean Air Act.

October 28, 2019 | Legal Document