This past February, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took the extreme action of throwing out the Endangerment Finding, the legal foundation for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Because of you, Food & Water Watch’s legal team, Food & Water Justice, is on the case. Tarah’s team is strategic and effective Tarah Heinzen is Food & Water Justice’s Legal Director and oversees the work of five attorneys and one paralegal. Because of your investment, our team is engaged in more than 25 lawsuits and numerous other legal strategies, with many more in development. They work closely with teams
Trump’s EPA repealed the Endangerment Finding.
Food & Water Justice Wins!
Issued by the EPA in 2009, this finding finally recognized that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare, and laid the foundation for the agency to regulate the emis- sions driving climate change. With this rollback and many others, the administration is trying to take away our tools to protect our health, envi- ronment, and climate from industrial pollution. Together, we’re fighting back. In April, we added a legal challenge to the withdrawal of the Endangerment Finding to our growing list of lawsuits against Trump’s reckless, unlawful rollbacks.
With your investment and Food & Water Justice’s relentless dedication, we’ve made major progress despite Trump’s pro-polluter agenda. In the past year, we won major legal victories* that will: • Push the EPA to monitor micro- plastics in our drinking water. • Hold factory farms accountable for their water pollution in Washington and Michigan. • Force the EPA to reexamine its water pollution standards for petroleum refineries, plastics manufacturers, and fertilizer plants. • Keep agricultural wetland and soil conservation programs on the books. • Protect our oceans from industrial fish farms. Your generosity adds more wins to this list!
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across our organiza- tion to advance our priority campaigns — stopping factory farms, protecting clean water, and getting off fossil fuels. They provide legal support to our organizers, develop legislative analysis and talking points, and bring high-im- pact lawsuits against polluters and govern- ment agencies, including the EPA. The Endanger- ment Finding and our climate are in danger Early this year, in a massive gift to the fossil fuel industry,
* You can read about these victories at fwwat.ch/legal-wins
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