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The Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, an ethylene cracker plant, on the Ohio River in Potter Township, Pennsylvania. (Lauren Petracca for Earthjustice)
Press Release March 27, 2025

Trump’s EPA Offers Corporations a Roadmap to Sidestep Clean Air Protections

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

View of Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake. (Nick Pedersen / Getty Images)
Press Release March 27, 2025

Judge Rejects Effort by Utah Officials to Derail Great Salt Lake Lawsuit

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

The U.S. EPA’s flag flies outside the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C. (Aidan Wakely Mulroney / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
From the Experts March 26, 2025

The Trump Administration’s Latest Effort to Destroy Sound Science

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.

In the News: The New York Times March 25, 2025

‘It Is Hard to Imagine a More Sweeping Agenda to Make Americans Less Healthy’

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…

In the News: WOSU Public Media March 25, 2025

Coal companies want a relaxation of coal ash standards. The EPA may give it to them.

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.”

In the News: Grist March 24, 2025

Power companies would rather not clean their toxic messes. Trump’s EPA is granting their wish.

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.”

In the News: Politico March 21, 2025

Judges probe challenge to Biden-era chemical review framework

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.”

Trichloroethylene contamination has been found in the drinking water of hundreds of public water systems across the United States. <a href="https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/tce/map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See EWG's interactive map.</a> (Data: Environmental Working Group’s Tap Water Database / <a href="https://www.ewg.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ewg.org</a>)
From the Experts March 19, 2025

Congress Wants to Keep a Carcinogen Ravaging our Communities in Use — We Can’t Let That Happen

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

Maria Lopez-Nuñez at her community garden in the Ironbound section of Newark. (Brian W. Fraser)
Article March 17, 2025

Trump Desmantela Políticas de Justicia Ambiental, Pero la Lucha Continúa

La administración está recortando iniciativas destinadas a ayudar a comunidades racializadas y de bajos ingresos que enfrentan altas cargas de contaminación.

From the Experts March 17, 2025

Farmworkers Feed America. Why Do We Let Them Suffer?

Behind every bite of salad in the break room, every fruit in a lunch box, every meal at dinner, lies the hand of a farmworker — drenched in pesticides, soaked in sweat, and now, likely facing the risk of deportation.

Maria Lopez-Nuñez at her community garden in the Ironbound section of Newark. (Brian W. Fraser)
Article March 14, 2025

Trump Guts Environmental Justice Policies, but the Fight for Justice Continues

The administration is slashing initiatives meant to help communities of color and low-income communities facing high pollution burdens.

In the News: The Cool Down March 13, 2025

New report finds health threat lurking in countless household products: ‘Unreasonable risk’

Katherine O’Brien, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “Despite calculating very high cancer risks for people in their homes and also fence-line community residents, EPA has completely written off those risks, and set the stage for no regulation to address those risks. That’s deeply disappointing and very hard to comprehend.”

document March 13, 2025

EPA Letter to Protect Health and Safety

Groups send letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin

Linda Robles, founder of Environmental Justice Task Force, poses for a portrait in her home in Tucson, Ariz. (Mamta Popat for Earthjustice)
Article March 11, 2025

Her Family Moved to Escape This Deadly Chemical — But It Followed

Lawmakers are trying to overturn a ban on trichloroethylene, a widely-used solvent linked to cancer and Parkinson’s disease. Here’s what it is, and one family’s story after being exposed.

In the News: The Hill March 6, 2025

Trump administration considers rolling back chemical plant safeguards

Adam Kron, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “It would mean a real disservice to communities, first responders and workers. It would put them in greater harm’s way from these chemical disasters.”

document March 6, 2025

EPA RMP Filing: Unopposed Motion to Hold Cases in Abeyance

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a rulemaking process after corporate lobbyists pressed the agency to dismantle safeguards against chemical disasters.

document March 5, 2025

Industry Letter to Zeldin re SCCAP Rollback

Industry letter to EPA Administrator Zeldin on the Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention: Risk Management Program Rule.

In the News: Newsday March 3, 2025

DEC to Brookhaven: Rewrite report discounting landfill’s role as toxic plume source

Hillary Aidun, Attorney, Northeast Office: “The reason that DEC required Brookhaven to do this analysis in the first place is that the town owns the landfill, and PFAS is coming from the landfill.”