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document July 2, 2026

Rinnai America South Coast Decision

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California July 2, 2026, affirming the district court’s grant of summary judgment to South Coast Air Quality Management…
Press Release June 30, 2026

Health and Green Groups Tell EPA: Don’t Let Data Centers and Other Major Polluters Build Before Getting Permits

EPA's proposal would let major polluters build before first acquiring the proper permits
document June 29, 2026

Comments on EPA’s Proposed Rule: Begin Actual Construction in the New Source Review Preconstruction Permitting Program

A coalition of health and environmental organizations submitted comments — in addition to tens of thousands of individual public comments — urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its…
In the News: AP June 26, 2026

Appeals court rejects Trump EPA bid to abandon rule restricting deadly soot pollution

Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation for Healthy Communities: “Clean air is not a luxury. The 2024 soot standard is a critical advancement for public health, projected to save thousands of lives every year.”
document June 26, 2026

Opinion: Court Upholds Life-Saving National Soot Air Quality Standard

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the national, health-based limit on fine particulate matter (PM2.5), also known as soot, that the Environmental Protection Agency strengthened in…
Soot pollution from power plants, oil refineries and other industrial operations is a major killer.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory June 26, 2026

Court Upholds Life-Saving National Soot Air Quality Standard  

Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to abandon stronger public health safeguard is rejected 
Dozens of unpermitted gas turbines, the target of a citizen suit filed by the NAACP, operate in Mississippi to power xAI's nearby Memphis data center. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
Article June 16, 2026

Why Trump Is Going After Your Right to Take Polluters to Court (and How We’re Fighting Back)

Citizens suits are powerful tools to enforce the law, which is why the Trump administration is attacking them.
Thermal drone imagery shows more than a dozen unpermitted gas turbines operating at xAI’s gas plant in Southaven, Miss. (Evan Simon / Floodlight)
Press Release June 16, 2026

Trump Administration Attempts Massive Power Grab in Defense of Musk’s xAI

DOJ wants to give itself veto power over citizen suits, a key legal tool used to protect communities from illegal pollution for over 50 years
In the News: The Guardian June 6, 2026

Trump’s DoJ intervenes to back Elon Musk in datacenter pollution lawsuit

Laura Thoms, Director of Enforcement: “There is no moral or legal precedent for this. This isn’t about national security; it’s a desperate attempt to protect wealthy tech companies from obeying the laws meant to protect people from pollution.”
In the News: Los Angeles Times June 6, 2026

L.A. region begins the year with the smoggiest first 5 months in a decade

Adrian Martinez, Director of Right to Zero: “If we have this many violations by this time, this could be a really awful year for air quality.”
In the News: Hawaii News Now May 22, 2026

HECO and environmental advocates split over Hawaii clean-air plan

Isaac Moriwake, Managing Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office: “It’s really something else for HECO to be double-crossing Hawaii regulators and ratepayers like this.”
Press Release May 22, 2026

Groups Challenge Trump Administration’s Phoenix Ozone Pollution Waiver

EPA blamed city’s air violations on Asia, Mexico in granting free pass to pollute
document May 22, 2026

Phoenix 179B Petition for Review

Conservation groups challenged the Trump administration's waiver of stronger air pollution controls for Phoenix, one of the nation's smoggiest cities.
Press Release May 18, 2026

Trump Administration’s EPA Rejects Hawaiʻi’s Clean Air Plan

The agency decision disregards Hawaiian Electric's own promises to retire aging oil-burning plants
The fire at the incinerator in Miami-Dade County in 2023. (Juan Carlos Esquivel)
Press Release May 11, 2026

Zeldin’s EPA Is Letting Trash Incinerators Poison Children. Now It’s Being Sued

Weak federal rules allow incinerators to release cancer-causing pollutants into communities of color, harming children’s development before they are even born
Press Release May 11, 2026

La EPA de Zeldin Permite que los Incineradores de Basura Envenenen a los Niños. Ahora Enfrenta una Demanda

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
document May 11, 2026

Petition for Review: LMWC Rule

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…