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EPA fails to protect farmers, truck drivers, and families from the harm of toxic sludge

Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and partner organizations, including the Kentucky Resources Council (KRC) and Earthjustice, have filed briefs in support of an appeal challenging the EPA’s failure to protect communities from PFAS – toxic forever chemicals – in sewage sludge. The appeal – brought by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) – highlights the EPA’s refusal to act despite decades of contaminated sludge being spread on farmland as fertilizer across the country.

Lawsuit challenges rollback that allows more mercury, lead, and other toxic pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants

A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from coal-fired power plants.

Federal government, not state, will remain in charge of wetlands permitting under the Clean Water Act

The administration’s repeal of a key scientific finding on climate will harm millions.

Residents in the Phoenix area will continue to be exposed to dangerous ozone air pollution with this free pass

Laws without penalties are just requests.

The final rule leaves communities around these facilities vulnerable to dangerous, cancer-causing air pollutants

Terminating these programs leaves communities more vulnerable to pollution and disasters

More than 14 million people in the US live near sterilizer facilities that emit one of the most toxic air pollutants regulated by the agency

Under the current Trump administration, the EPA has begun to systematically gut protections that would otherwise force the coal industry to clean up its toxic coal ash.

Folks nationwide feel the Trump administration’s EPA is abandoning its responsibility to protect communities, and they are speaking out.

Groups challenge disapproval of state’s widely-supported regional haze plan

A basic primer on a key environmental health law

Advocates warn of more toxic pollution, asthma attacks, and premature deaths, especially in communities living near coal plants.

Closing EPA labs means dirtier air, unsafe water, and sicker communities.

Grupos ambientalistas y de la salud disputan la derogación sin base en la ciencia, dañina e ilegal del dictamen de peligro y la eliminación de los estándares para vehículos limpios por parte de la EPA de Trump