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A Republican-run Congress may repeal lead exposure protections, endangering millions of lives in the U.S. We are ready to fight back.

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.”

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.

The environmental movement has made huge gains since the 1970s, and we won’t let the lawless actions of the current administration reverse our hard-won progress.

Michael Youhana, Attorney, Northeast Office: “Even small releases or small bits of exposure to PFAS can cause devastating effects to the environment and human beings, and that’s why this doesn’t make sense.”

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

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

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

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…

Jim Pew, Director of Federal Clean Air Practice, Earthjustice: “I just don’t see why forcing people to breathe toxic pollution for another two years is in the national security interests of the United States.”

Move would allow chemical facilities, coal plants, and other large polluters to emit more toxic air pollution with no public transparency

Utah sought to dismiss lawsuit over its failure to protect the Great Salt Lake

News reports say the EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm. This move will benefit polluters at the expense of every person in this country.

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “The most important thing to understand is that we are seeing a wholesale approach to eradicating environmental protections. This is the hatchet not the scalpel. So it’s everything from the water you drink and the air you breathe, to the food you eat and the basic products you buy. If…

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “What has been proven over and over again is that the industry can deploy the best science and the best technology, continue to have a very profitable business model, while affording us all of the collective benefits, including economic benefits, of a clean and healthy environment.”

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “Utilities have gamed the system at some plants by designing monitoring systems that intentionally miss detecting leakage from a coal ash dump.”

Tosh Sagar, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “These are basic statutory requirements that EPA has been flip-flopping on for a while, it’s causing real harms. It means that protections are not being put in place. It’s this court’s job to say what the law is, to clarify the rules of the road.”

Lawmakers want to over turn a life-saving ban that phases out the potent carcinogen trichloroethylene (TCE)