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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.”

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program, Earthjustice: “If you want to build these data centers, it [can’t] come at the expense of public health. If that message comes clearly from federal, state and local regulators, then these kinds of companies … that claim to be at the forefront of technological innovation will find…

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Toxic Exposure & Health Program: “The science on formaldehyde hasn’t changed; these are the same arguments that the chemical industry’s been peddling for the last decade. The only difference is that they’ve finally found an administration willing to ignore the findings of its own scientists.”

Unlawful delay ignores health risks, energy waste, widespread opposition

Andrea Loera, Attorney, Community Partnerships Program: “Excluding hazardous waste from the law does not make hazardous waste dangers magically disappear.”

Trump’s EPA proposal would allow EPA to grant 11 coal power plants extensions to continue dumping toxic coal ash in unlined ponds until October 17, 2031

Toxic gold mining along rivers crossing the British Columbia-Alaska border threatens critical ecosystems and the sovereign rights of Alaska Native communities.