A federal court ruled against DTE and EES Coke for violating the Clean Air Act by allowing a Zug Island facility to emit thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide that led to asthma and early death among residents.
Daniel Savery, Legislative Representative, Policy & Legislation: “Industry has said it has a ‘historic opportunity’ to revise TSCA, or gut it, as we believe it to be. It’ll be interesting to see what shade of lipstick they’re going to put on this pig to sell it to their constituents, who are rightly concerned about the…
Thanks to last year’s victory in a challenge brought by Southwest Alaska Tribes, the agencies had to supplement the mine’s environmental study to examine the risks of a larger tailings spill
Una nueva investigación documenta preocupaciones generales respecto al medio ambiente y derechos humanos en el Centro de Detención del Condado de Glades
On PFAS, pesticides, food additives, and more — what the MAHA commission said in their report, what the MAHA commission recommends and what the Trump administration is actually doing
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
In the News: The Southern Maryland ChronicleJanuary 13, 2026
Thom Cmar, Deputing Managing Attorney, Midwest Regional Office: “It’ll cost all of us in the long run because it will encourage more expensive, dirty coal plants to continue operating for longer and it will mean more arsenic, mercury and lead in our waterways.”
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.
