A federal appeals court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the law when it refused to regulate significant exposures to the toxic flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE).
Weak federal rules allow incinerators to release cancer-causing pollutants into communities of color, harming children’s development before they are even born
Las débiles normativas federales permiten que los incineradores liberen contaminantes cancerígenos en comunidades de color, perjudicando el desarrollo de los niños incluso antes de que nazcan
This lawsuit, filed by Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project on behalf of Sierra Club, Ironbound Community Corporation, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, South Baltimore Community Land Trust, and…
Si la Corte falla a favor de la industria química, pacientes con cáncer y trabajadores agrícolas podrían perder su único recurso para obtener una compensación cuando los pesticidas tóxicos les…
If the Court sides with the chemical industry, cancer patients and farmworkers could lose their only path to compensation when toxic pesticides make them sick
The case is one of thousands brought by people who got non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after applying Monsanto’s Roundup. Two FIFRA regulations will likely loom large at argument.
A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from…
