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Environmental Protection Agency scientists sort samples for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the EPA Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response in Cincinnati. (Joshua A. Bickel / AP)
Press Release September 17, 2025

EPA Reaffirms Rule Designating Forever Chemicals PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances

Decision to defend Superfund designations contrasts with administration’s attempted rollback of PFAS drinking water protections just last week

document September 17, 2025

EPA Motion: PFAS

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to keep the “Designation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS) as CERCLA Hazardous Substance” rule in place. EPA requests that the court order the parties to propose an amended briefing schedule.

Earthjustice y nuestros socios trabajan para proteger la salud infantil. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
From the Experts September 16, 2025

Algunos Grupos de la Industria Química Piden Licencia para Contaminar. Pero Así Es Como Protegemos a los Niños.

En todo Estados Unidos, las señales de advertencia de peligro químico nunca parecen detenerse.

The Suncor refinery in North Denver. (Martin do Nascimento / Earthjustice)
Press Release September 15, 2025

Colorado Reaches Backroom Deal with Suncor to Avoid Key Water Permit Provisions

Environmental justice and conservation groups cut out of settlement process despite intervention

Almost everyone in the U.S. has traces of PFAS in their body because the chemicals have contaminated the air, soil, and water — including the drinking water for approximately 200 million people nationwide. (Cavan Images)
Press Release September 12, 2025

EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections

The move continues to expose communities across the country to toxic forever chemicals in tap water

document September 11, 2025

Motion: EPA Requests to Vacate Parts of PFAS Rule

On Sept. 11, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency requested to vacate parts of their rule regulating maximum contaminant levels of some PFAS in drinking water.

Earthjustice y nuestros socios trabajan para proteger la salud infantil. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
Press Release September 9, 2025

Informe de la Comisión MAHA de Trump Expone a Niños a Sustancias Tóxicas

A pesar de que afirma promover la salud, la administración Trump elimina protecciones contra sustancias químicas tóxicas en alimentos y agua

Earthjustice and our partners are working to protect children's health. (Prasit Thongdee / Getty Images)
Press Release September 9, 2025

Trump’s MAHA Commission Report Offers No Solutions, Leaves Kids Exposed to Toxics

While claiming to promote health, the Trump administration removes protections from toxic chemicals in food and water

Sockeye salmon make their way back up a river in the Pacific Northwest to spawn.(Shutterstock)
From the Experts September 4, 2025

Wins and Highlights from the Washington 2025 Legislative Session

Let’s celebrate this year’s environmental victories, plan to continue our work in the Columbia Basin — and prepare for next year!

The New Madrid coal plant in Missouri in 2009. (Larry Braun / CC BY-ND 2.0)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Missouri: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 21 coal-fired power plant sites in Missouri.

The Riverside (MN) power station on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minn., in 2011. (Kubrak78 / Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Minnesota: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 12 coal-fired power plant sites in Minnesota.

The J. P. Pulliam Generating Station on Fox River in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 2017. (James G Brey / Getty Images)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Wisconsin: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 14 coal-fired power plant sites in Wisconsin.

Former coal ash ponds at Grainger Generating Station, Conway, S.C. Coal ash contaminated the groundwater in the area with heavy metals and toxins. (Anthony Brown / Permission from Southern Environmental Law Center)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in South Carolina: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 12 coal-fired power plant sites in South Carolina.

Dominion Virginia Power's coal ash pond at Possum Point, Virginia. (Potomac Riverkeepers)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Virginia: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 12 power plant sites in Virginia.

Volunteers collect water samples, as miles of the Dan River in North Carolina were contaminated with toxic coal ash after the collapse of a coal ash impoundment at Duke Energy's Dan River Steam Station in 2014. (Appalachian Voices)
feature September 4, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in North Carolina: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at 17 power plant sites in North Carolina.

The Naughton Power Plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in 2010. (Nancy Nehring / Getty Images)
feature September 3, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Wyoming: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at six power plant sites in Wyoming.

The Four Corners coal-fired power plant near Shiprock, New Mexico, in 2017. (Buddy Mays / Getty Images)
feature September 3, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in New Mexico: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at three power plant sites in New Mexico.

The devastating aftermath of the coal ash spill at Kingston, TN, in 2008. One billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, covering 300 acres, destroying homes, poisoning rivers, and contaminating coves and residential drinking waters. (TVA)
feature September 3, 2025

Toxic Coal Ash in Tennessee: Addressing Coal Plants’ Hazardous Legacy

Massive quantities of toxic coal ash are stored at eight coal-fired power plant sites in Tennessee.