Environmental Protection Agency

The Latest On: Environmental Protection Agency

January 17, 2019 | Blog Post

D.C. Is Shut Down for the People — and Open for President Trump’s Corporate Cronies

The government is working just fine for the oil and gas industry.

January 17, 2019 | Feature

Special Report: Two Years of Overruling Trump

The record shows that Trump’s efforts to weaken environmental regulations are no match for the law.

January 17, 2019 | Press Release

Menominee Tribe Files Appeal to Protect Cultural Resources and Menominee River

Back Forty Mine would irreversibly harm Menominee River, surrounding wetlands and irreplaceable cultural resources

January 16, 2019 | Blog Post

Reading Between the Lines of Wheeler’s Pro-Polluter Agenda

The EPA nominee may not give the media a climate denial sound bite, but he clearly has no intention to tackle the problem.

January 16, 2019 | Press Release

Records Show 100 Percent of Texas Coal Power Plants Contaminating Groundwater

Utility data made public for the first time in 2018 document pollution of groundwater with toxic chemicals at all 16 Texas power plants where records are available

January 15, 2019 | Feature

Danger in the Air

Earthjustice is defending the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards — a rule that saves up to 11,000 people from early deaths each year.

January 9, 2019 | Press Release

Earthjustice Statement on Nomination of Andrew Wheeler to Head Environmental Protection Agency

“If confirmed, he would continue the policy of dirty energy bailouts, eliminating public health safeguards, and climate denial that the Trump administration embraces with open arms.”