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Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “To date, state regulators have largely failed to fill the void where federal regulations do not apply…. At the very least, information concerning the past disposal of toxic waste at these sites must be made public and available in a state database.”

Sabemos que podemos salir victoriosos ante el presidente Trump y sus aliados, porque lo hemos hecho antes.

One election will not deter us or erase the environmental progress we’ve achieved.

Meet a handful of the Earthjustice lawyers who have fought the Trump administration and won. We’re prepared to do it again.

Thanks to funding from congestion pricing, New York will place its largest order of zero-emissions buses yet

Company announces they no longer plan to build in Louisiana

New standard will clean up air in portside communities and drive new clean energy technology

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.”

Dominique Burkhardt, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “They’re not in any way taking into account who’s actually impacted by air pollution.”

Motion of Newburgh Clean Water Project, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club to intervene in support of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the challenge to the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper: Improvements.

Lead service lines contaminate drinking water across the country and must be replaced now

Working with four nonprofit environmental organizations — Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, RE Sources, Toxic-Free Future, and Waste Action Project — Earthjustice advocated for more stringent pollution controls for the wastewater treatment plant to help protect salmon, orcas, and people.

A group of health advocates, represented by Earthjustice, sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to force the agency to reevaluate its decades-old authorizations for the use of certain phthalates in food packaging and food production materials.

Los ftalatos, un grupo de sustancias químicas altamente tóxicas, entran en contacto con productos de consumo mediante empaques o envases, entre otros materiales.

Phthalates leach from packaging and other products into food and drinks

A public health expert panel report gives Californians a critical new tool in the years-long fight for setbacks from oil and gas drilling.

Standards fail to protect against harmful carbon monoxide exposure until levels reach a critical danger point

The current voluntary standards for CO alarms are insufficient to safeguard public health. A significant flaw in these standards is that alarms are not triggered until carbon monoxide levels become life-threatening, leaving people vulnerable to lower concentrations of the gas that can still cause serious and permanent harm, including increased risks of cardiovascular harm, stroke, and developmental harm.