Today, in a long-awaited step toward prioritizing communities disproportionately impacted by pollution and environmental racism, EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced the agency will create the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, putting this critical issue in its rightful position alongside other EPA program offices.
En una decisión positiva, largamente esperada para mejorar la calidad del aire, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) finalizó decisiones que decenas de áreas en las que viven millones de estadounidenses han fracasado en su intento de lograr los Estándares Nacionales de Calidad del Aire de 2008 y 2015.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club joins over 150 advocacy groups in launching the #SolutionsForPollution campaign. This campaign calls on the Biden Administration to set the strongest possible pollution standards to meet the president’s commitment to slash climate pollution by at least half by 2030 and to protect our health, communities, air, water, land and wildlife from dangerous pollution.
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) propuso hoy una nueva regla por la cual dos compuestos altamente tóxicos del tipo PFAS—PFOS y PFOA— se considerarían sustancias peligrosas en virtud de la Ley Federal de Superfunds (lugares altamente contaminados).
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the EPA proposed a new rule to list two PFAS chemicals – PFOS and PFOA – as hazardous substances under the United States’ federal Superfund law, giving EPA the authority to force polluters to efficiently cleanup contaminated sites and recoup costs of cleanup.
Veintiséis grupos médicos, ambientales y de protección del consumidor pidieron hoy formalmente a la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) que proteja la salud pública de peligrosa contaminación incluyendo la calefacción residencial y comercial como fuente sujeta a regulación en virtud de la sección 111(b) de la Ley de Aire Limpio.
Twenty-six health, environmental, and consumer protection groups formally petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today to protect public health from dangerous outdoor air pollution fossil fuel-fired heating appliances.
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) dio un modesto paso positivo hacia la protección de comunidades de todo el país, incluyendo latinas, contra los impactos negativos del óxido de etileno, un potente carcinógeno.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, EPA took a small but positive step toward protecting communities across America from the harmful impacts of ethylene oxide, a potent carcinogen, by announcing reinvigorated efforts to notify and consult communities near 23 facilities releasing toxic ethylene oxide emissions.
Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, and supported by environmental justice advocates and community members from Northeast Texas, joined the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in New Orleans to present oral argument at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals defending EPA's final sulfur dioxide (SO2) nonattainment designation for the area around Martin Lake, a coal-burning power plant in Northeast Texas.
La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos emitió esta mañana su decisión sobre el crucial caso West Virgina v EPA sobre la acción climática.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States released its decision in the crucial climate action case West Virginia v. EPA.
In response, the Sierra Club released the following statement from Andres Restrepo, senior attorney for the Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program: