Tell Congress: Protect our families from toxic chemicals
Our families deserve clean air, safe water, and everyday products free from toxic chemicals. Unfortunately, Congress is trying to undo crucial protections against these dangerous substances to the benefit of the chemical lobby.
Read MoreRepublican-Led Efforts to Undermine Clean Air Act Favor Industry Interests Over Public Health
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce is holding a markup of a package of bills, including a number that would weaken the Clean Air Act. Taken together, the bills would diminish health protections afforded under the law and increase pollution, including by undermining national air quality standards and creating exemptions to fast-track permits for industrial projects so polluters can evade compliance measures. In response, Earthjustice Action Senior Legislative Representative Liz Ruben issued the…
Read MoreEarthjustice Action Statement on House Passage of Mining Regulatory Clarity Act
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act. The bill would undermine a hard-won court victory for public lands and would create more conflict over mines by allowing mining companies to claim an indefinite number of millsites on public lands and block other uses like recreation, conservation, and clean energy. After the House vote, Earthjustice Action Associate Legislative Representative…
Read MoreEarthjustice Action Statement on House Passage of SPEED Act
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act. The bill would gut the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by limiting its scope and drastically limiting government accountability efforts when federal agencies fail to adequately consider the health, environmental, or economic impacts of decisions. After the bill’s passage, Earthjustice Action…
Read MoreEarthjustice Action Celebrates Reintroduction of Public Health Air Quality Act
Washington, DC — Today, U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and U.S. Representatives Troy Carter (D-La.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) reintroduced the Public Health Air Quality Act of 2025, a landmark bill that would strengthen the nation’s air quality monitoring infrastructure and give families and communities access to real-time data on toxic chemicals and other air pollution near their…
Read MoreDon’t Let “Permitting Reform” Help the Trump Administration Further Its Deregulatory Fever Dream
By: Stephen Schima, Earthjustice Action Senior Legislative Representative We can all agree that fighting climate change and mitigating its worst impacts requires us to think creatively, harness the power of American innovation, and quickly build the clean energy infrastructure of the future. But some in Congress are saying that to do so, we need to throw out bedrock environmental laws that have played an important…
Read MoreRepublicans Seek to Weaken Clean Air Act Under the Guise of “Permitting Reform”
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the Environment will mark up a package of bills that would weaken the Clean Air Act. Together, the bills would create new loopholes and procedures to fast-track permits for large industrial projects regardless of the risk of increased pollution. The markup occurs as Congress is voting…
Read MoreGroups of the Health Equity and Environment Action League Submit Comments to EPA Over Repeal of the GHG Reporting Program
WASHINGTON, DC—This week, organizations part of the Health Equity and Environment Action League (HEAL) submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing the repeal of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Program. The GHG Reporting Program provides critical data on facility and source-level emissions that public health officials, advocates, and communities rely upon to assess health risks and inform mitigation measures. …
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