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DOE’s order disrupts a long-planned shutdown of a coal plant in Centralia, Washington, designed to provide state residents with cleaner air and affordable, reliable, clean energy

Comments in response to the Call for Input – Forever Chemicals (PFAS) & Human Rights. These comments were prepared by Alaska Community Action on Toxics; Brunswick County Chapter of the NAACP; Clean Cape Fear; Earthjustice; EarthRights International; Environmental Working Group; Jamie DeWitt, PhD, DABT, Oregon State University; National PFAS Contamination Coalition; Oregon Environmental Council; and Testing for Pease.

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “EPA never reviewed these demonstrations. If they did, I am confident that they would likely find that each of the plants are ineligible for an extension.”

Mychal Ozaeta, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “These 13 are the most dangerous coal ash ponds in the U.S. because they’re leaking. They’ve been doing so for decades.”

The Duwamish River Community Coalition and Front and Centered, represented by Earthjustice, filed an appeal seeking to overturn a regional air agency decision allowing the Ash Grove Cement Company to burn more tires for fuel at its Seattle plant.

Community groups seek to overturn an illegal air permit that would allow more tire burning resulting in severe health harms to nearby residents

EPA issues rule to allow ongoing release of toxic chemicals into sources of drinking water for more than 30 million Americans

Community, health, and environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s exemptions that allow coke ovens to keep spewing harmful pollutants.

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “When you have chemicals that are this ubiquitous and this toxic, they really call out for strong regulations. You really need the government to do its job and provide protections.”

State recommendations to EPA under the 2024 NAAQS, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Sierra Club.

State recommendations to EPA under the 2024 NAAQS, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Sierra Club.

State recommendations to EPA under the 2024 NAAQS, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Sierra Club.

State recommendations to EPA under the 2024 NAAQS, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Sierra Club.

State recommendations to EPA under the 2024 NAAQS, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Sierra Club.

Notice of intent to sue details Clean Water Act violations at Seadrift, Texas, facility, including unpermitted plastic nurdle discharges

This is a 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue (NOI) for Clean Water Act violations at a plastics manufacturing facility in Seadrift, Texas, operated by Dow Hydrocarbons and Resources LLC, Union Carbide Corporation and Braskem America, Inc. on the behalf of our clients San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper with co-counsel at Environmental Integrity Project (EIP).

The onslaught of environmental attacks from polluting industries and their allies in the Trump administration is not slowing down – but neither is the pace of our litigation.

The legislation would undo longstanding protections under the Clean Air Act, undermine children’s health, and institutionalize a dangerous precedent of executive overreach under the pretext of “national security.”