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The U.S. EPA’s flag flies outside the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C. (Aidan Wakely Mulroney / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
From the Experts October 24, 2025

Los Esfuerzos de la Administración Trump para Destruir Una Ciencia Sólida

Según informes de prensa, EPA planea eliminar su división de investigación científica. Esta medida beneficiará a los contaminadores a expensas de todos los habitantes de este país.

This map is a subset that shows where the more than 500 exemption facilities are located throughout the country, whether they (or a representative) have requested or been granted a pollution exemption, and more. Map developed by Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Integrity Project.
Press Release October 22, 2025

Community, Health, and Environmental Groups Sue to Stop Trump Administration’s Toxic Air Pollution Exemptions

Lawsuit challenges unprecedented presidential carve-out that lets 50 chemical plants spew cancer-causing pollutants for two more years

Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette and Earthjustice attorney Alexis Andiman collect water samples in the Cape Fear River near the Smithfield slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina, October 2023. We’ve successfully pushed the EPA to propose rules that, if implemented, would prevent nearly 100 million pounds of slaughterhouse pollution from reaching U.S. waters each year. (Justin Cook for Earthjustice)
feature October 15, 2025

Farming For Our Future

Through litigation, legislative and administrative advocacy, and communications, Earthjustice’s Sustainable Food and Farming team advances the transition to a cleaner, safer, and more climate-friendly food system.

Press Release: Victory October 3, 2025

EPA Reverses Course on Toxic Emissions from Steel Industry Coke Ovens

The agency will now uphold the 2024 air standards, which set caps on emissions from these facilities

A CAFO and waste retention pond overgrown with algae in Warsaw, North Carolina. (Justin Cook for Earthjustice)
Press Release October 3, 2025

Appeal Filed Over Court Decision Allowing Trump EPA To Suppress Information About Animal Factory Air Pollution

Trump administration shields polluters as animal factories emissions kill more people than coal plants

document October 3, 2025

Notice of Appeal re: EPA To Suppress Information About Factory Farm Air Pollution

Conservation and community groups appealed a federal court decision upholding a Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that exempts factory farms from their duty to make information about dangerous air emissions available to the public. The decision, issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, leaves frontline communities in the dark about noxious chemicals in the air they breathe. The groups will argue on appeal that the Trump administration’s rule is unlawful.

La Ley de Control de Sustancias Tóxicas, principal ley de seguridad química del país, exige que EPA evalúe las sustancias químicas utilizadas en productos cotidianos, desde juguetes infantiles hasta removedores de pintura. (Lisa Anna / Unsplash)
Press Release September 30, 2025

Plan de la EPA de Trump Minimiza los Peligros de las Sustancias Químicas Tóxicas en Productos de Uso Cotidiano

Las propuestas de cambio debilitan el proceso de evaluación de sustancias químicas tóxicas por parte de la agencia

Kids take a break in a swimming pool in the shadow of the James H. Miller, Jr., coal-fired power plant in Adamsville, Ala. The Trump administration has exempted the plant from pollution limits set in the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Press Release September 29, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Coal Industry Giveaways

Americans will foot the bill for dirty fossil fuel power

The Toxic Substances Control Act, the nation's main chemical safety law, requires EPA to evaluate chemicals used in everyday products — from children’s toys to paint strippers. (Lisa Anna / Unsplash)
Press Release September 23, 2025

Trump’s EPA Plan Would Downplay the Dangers of Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Products

The proposed changes weaken how the agency reviews toxic chemicals

Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen speaks during a Climate Action Campaign press conference at the U.S. Capitol about the EPA’s plan to rescind air pollution regulations around greenhouse gases from transportation and fossil fuel power plants. (Alyssa Schukar for Earthjustice)
Article September 18, 2025

We Won’t Let the Trump Administration Abandon Federal Climate Responsibility

Environmental advocates delivered 225,000 public comments telling the EPA to do its job by protecting us from the climate crisis.

Drinking water is one of the most common routes of exposure to PFAS. PFAS have polluted the tap water of at least 16 million people in 33 states and Puerto Rico, as well as groundwater in at least 38 states.
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Update September 18, 2025

EPA Backtracks on First-Ever Limits on Forever Chemicals

Highly toxic PFAS chemicals are present in the drinking water of as many as 200 million Americans.

PUSH Buffalo's executive director, Dawn Wells-Clyburn, stands outside of the organization's training center. (Brandon Watson for Earthjustice)
Press Release September 17, 2025

Nonprofits, Tribes, and Local Governments Appeal Dismissal of EPA Program Termination

Groups vow to keep fighting the wholesale termination of the grant program

Environmental Protection Agency scientists sort samples for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the EPA Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response in Cincinnati. (Joshua A. Bickel / AP)
Press Release September 17, 2025

EPA Reaffirms Rule Designating Forever Chemicals PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances

Decision to defend Superfund designations contrasts with administration’s attempted rollback of PFAS drinking water protections just last week

document September 17, 2025

EPA Motion: PFAS

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to keep the “Designation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS) as CERCLA Hazardous Substance” rule in place. EPA requests that the court order the parties to propose an amended briefing schedule.

Almost everyone in the U.S. has traces of PFAS in their body because the chemicals have contaminated the air, soil, and water — including the drinking water for approximately 200 million people nationwide. (Cavan Images)
Press Release September 12, 2025

EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections

The move continues to expose communities across the country to toxic forever chemicals in tap water

Earthjustice and our partners are working to protect children's health. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
Press Release September 9, 2025

Trump’s MAHA Commission Report Offers No Solutions, Leaves Kids Exposed to Toxics

While claiming to promote health, the Trump administration removes protections from toxic chemicals in food and water

Tania Galloni (Saul Martinez for Earthjustice). Steve Mashuda (Jovelle Tamayo for Earthjustice). Hana Vizcarra (Matt Roth for Earthjustice). David Henkin (Elyse Butler for Earthjustice).
feature September 8, 2025

The Earthjustice Lawyers Taking on the Trump Administration

Meet some of the lawyers behind our cases, and learn how they’re defending our land, air, and water against the Trump administration’s unprecedented threats.

feature September 4, 2025

Coal Ash in the United States: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Earthjustice analyzed industry data to explain, state by state, how and where coal ash is disposed and which dump sites are not yet monitored or regulated.