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106 groups oppose EPA abandoning its defense of the soot standard.

A February 2026 deadline calls for EPA to address air pollution from soot, but it appears the agency has taken few steps, if any, to do so

In 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) adopted a rule that would initiate a series of actions to reduce exposure to harmful levels of fine particulate matter. This paper assesses where EPA stands in the process of implementing that rule and shines a light on why it is so important to faithfully implement it, as Congress mandated EPA to do under the Clean Air Act.

With environmental enforcement at a historic low, it’s open season for polluters.

Laura Thoms, Director of Enforcement: “This places the ability to delay enforcement directly in the hands of polluters. Delaying enforcement means that more pollution is spewed into the air, more waste is dumped into rivers, and more communities are put at risk.”

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “The science on formaldehyde hasn’t changed; these are the same arguments that the chemical industry’s been peddling for the last decade. The only difference is that they’ve finally found an administration willing to ignore the findings of its own scientists.”

Unlawful delay ignores health risks, energy waste, widespread opposition

Health, environment, and community groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency’s rushed and unlawful final rule to delay protections against methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

Abandoning soot standards would cause more asthma attacks, heart disease, and early death — especially in vulnerable communities

The Environmental Protection Agency’s court filing asks the U.S, Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to strike down the soot standard.

We’re prepared to go to court to defend clean water as a right for all.

Earthjustice and other organizations submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency in opposition to giving Wyoming oversight over coal ash waste.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.