Pese a estar prohibidos, los aclaradores de la piel con niveles ilegales de mercurio siguen vendiéndose por los mayores comerciantes del mundo a consumidores que lo desconocen, de acuerdo con un reporte de Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG) publicado hoy.
DALLAS, TEXAS -- Today, a coalition of environmental justice advocates, representing organizations across North Texas – including Lane Plating Community Advisory Group, Southern Sector Rising, Downwinders at Risk, Midlothian Breathe, Liveable Arlington, and the Sierra Club – sent a letter to Dr. Earthea Nance, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Regional Administrator for Region 6.
EL PASO, TEXAS / LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO – On Friday, a coalition of environmental and community groups filed a motion to intervene in Texas’s challenge to the EPA's designation of El Paso County as being in nonattainment under the 2015 ozone standard for air quality.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA -- As the Senate returns from recess, the Sierra Club is making it clear this is a make-or-break moment for taking on the climate, economic, and health threats that working families and communities of color face. The organization is calling for Congress to swiftly pass a bold suite of investments, building on the broad array of historic climate and social investments in the Build Back Better Act that already have agreed upon support from Senate Democrats.
DALLAS, TX - Late yesterday, Sierra Club and Downwinders at Risk Education Fund (Downwinders at Risk), represented by Earthjustice, announced their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failure to appropriately classify two regions of Texas as moderate ozone nonattainment areas, as is required by the Clean Air Act.
AUSTIN, TX -- Today, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) voted to approve a weak and legally insufficient state implementation plan (SIP) to address the dangerous levels of SO2, or sulfur pollution, created by Vistra’s Martin Lake Coal Plant (Martin Lake) in Rusk County, Texas. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must now review the plan by this summer, as required by the Clean Air Act, and should reject the plan as insufficient and inadequate.
AUSTIN, TX -- Today, a coalition of Sierra Club members, supporters, and allied organizations including Texas Campaign for the Environment, and the Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience (CEER) submitted a petition with over four thousand signatures to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and almost two dozen people shared in-person testimony in front of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) of Texas, demanding that Governor Abbott, the PUC, and the
EL PASO, TX -- Late last week, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated its ozone designation of El Paso, Texas, to nonattainment, indicating that the region does not meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards for this dangerous air pollutant. The American Lung Association ranks El Paso 13th on its list of the most smog-polluted metropo
Una Corte Suprema profundamente dividida anoche ignoró su propia jurisprudencia y socavó los derechos constitucionales de millones de personas al rechazar el bloqueo de la prohibición del aborto en Texas (S.B. 8).
En la Cumbre de LÃderes Climáticos, la administración Biden presentará hoy su Contribución Determinada Nacional por la que se comprometerá a reducir sus emisiones entre un 50% y un 52% por debajo de los niveles de 2005 para el año 2030.
More than Century-Old BP Whiting Refinery Released Deadly Microscopic Soot-Like Particles Above Permitted Limit
Hammond, Ind. – A federal judge today ruled that the more than century-old BP Whiting Refinery on Lake Michigan, one of the nation’s largest refineries, repeatedly violated legal limits on deadly soot-like particulate air pollution.
El Presidente Biden firmó hoy una serie de órdenes ejecutivas y tomó otras decisiones, dando asà una barrida completa al legado de la administración Trump y marcando el principio del proceso de atacar de lleno la crisis climática.