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Map of soot air pollution by county in 2023. (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature May 9, 2025

Mapping Soot and Smog Pollution in the United States

How is the air where you live?

Map of soot air pollution by county in 2023. (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature May 9, 2025

What’s the state of soot pollution where you live?

Search by county to see the level of soot pollution in the air. Soot causes death and serious health harms.

Map of smog air pollution by county in 2022. (Air Quality System Data / U.S. EPA)
feature May 9, 2025

What’s the state of smog pollution where you live?

Search by county to see the level of smog pollution in the air. Smog can trigger asthma attacks and increase the risk of heart and lung diseases.

In the News: Politico May 5, 2025

Trump EPA defends Florida wetlands permit program

Christina Reichert, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “When you look at the language in the technical assistance process, it doesn’t include the things they failed to do at the programmatic level. There’s no baseline analysis. There’s no requirement to use the best available science. There’s no requirement for them to do an effects analysis.”

(Mary Terriberry / Shutterstock)
Press Release May 2, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on President’s Budget Release

“The President’s Budget robs the American people to pursue a reckless political agenda.”

Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant. (Appalachian Voices)
From the Experts May 2, 2025

Polluters can now email their way out of clean air laws, courtesy of Trump

Trump is handing out pollution waivers, leaving millions breathing more toxic air

Smog covers the city of Los Angeles.
(Photo courtesy of Ben Amstutz)
Press Release April 30, 2025

House of Representatives Votes to Repeal States’ Clean Air Standards, Bucking the Law and Congressional Watchdog

Abuse of Congressional Review Act veers far outside norms of the law

document April 21, 2025

NAAQS PM2.5 Letter to EPA Administrator Zeldin

A coalition of 100 organizations urges Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to uphold and fully implement the 2024 national soot pollution standard, citing its strong legal and scientific basis and its potential to save thousands of lives and deliver billions in public health benefits.

Map of the locations of 449 current and former coal plants with coal ash dump sites. <a href="https://clausa.app.carto.com/map/bf8b6eb1-9904-4c34-9a0b-00bacd4f6582" target="_blank" class="a_color--map">Use this map</a> to understand where coal ash is stored near you. This map displays the locations of 449 current and former coal plants with coal ash dumps. The dumps were identified using data gathered by EPA and self-reported by the coal industry. (Caroline Weinberg / Earthjustice)
feature April 17, 2025

Where are Coal Ash Dump Sites?

Use this map to understand where coal ash might be stored near you.

In the News: Grist April 16, 2025

The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “The EPA knows that the risks from ethylene oxide extend far beyond the walls of the sterilization facility. EPA had a legal obligation to address those risks.”

In the News: The Lens April 14, 2025

A Mississippi flood relief project could harm 90,000 acres of valuable wetlands. Is it worth the tradeoff?

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “This proposed project is going to impact over 90,000 acres of wetlands. That’s three times the amount that EPA prohibited in the veto. For them now to reverse course and say the veto doesn’t apply is unheard of.”

Projected lead service lines in the United States. (Casey Chin / Earthjustice. Data: EPA)
feature April 11, 2025

Attacks on Lead Protections Threaten Nation’s Drinking Water

The Trump administration and certain members of Congress are trying to roll back protections for lead in drinking water. But there are ways to fight back.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) speaks at a demonstration outside of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington on Feb. 6, 2025. Markey and other lawmakers were blocked from entering the EPA and meeting with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials. (Andrew Thomas / NurPhoto via AP)
Update April 8, 2025

We Will Not Just Watch Our Government Get Dismantled

The Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies will wreak havoc on laws that protect everyone’s health and the environment.

From the Experts April 3, 2025

Medicaid, Pollution, and Policy Failures — An Overlooked Cycle

Lawmakers are gutting both Medicaid and environmental protections, endangering vulnerable communities.

Whitney Gravelle, President of the Bay Mills Indian Community. (Sarah Rice for Earthjustice)
Press Release April 3, 2025

Tribes, Greens Take Line 5 Tunnel to Michigan’s Supreme Court

Tribes and environmental orgs are asking the Court to overturn a state agency’s permit

The Colstrip coal-fired power plant in Montana in 2004. (Larry Mayer / Getty Images)
Press Release April 2, 2025

One of America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants Seeks Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card from Trump

Montana’s Colstrip plant asks Trump administration for clean air standard exemption

(Ceci Freed / Earthjustice)
video April 2, 2025

Legal Experts Explain the Harms of EPA’s Deregulatory Agenda

A huge array of environmental protections are on the chopping block.

In the News: Floodlight April 1, 2025

As EPA pulls back, schoolchildren could face the steepest risks

Patrice Simms, VP of Litigation for Healthy Communities, Earthjustice: “The law demands that EPA control these pollutants, and demands that EPA protect families and communities. And these impacts on these communities most heavily land on the shoulders of children. Children are more susceptible to the harms from pollutants, and these pollutants are often happening right…