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Dare to Breathe
ByDuende May 19, 2026June 18, 2026

May is Clean Air Month, but nearly half of Americans live in areas with unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution, and people of color and low‑income communities are impacted the most. Our communities deserve clean air; it’s not a privilege – it’s a human right. On May 19, 2026, Clean Air for the Long Haul and the Platform for a Just Climate co-hosted a virtual briefing examining the Trump EPA’s recent rollbacks of key clean air and environmental protections and what they mean for environmental justice communities. Community leaders and experts discussed what was at stake and suggested ways to take action to protect the health and safety of frontline communities. Learn more and get involved at http://daretobreathe.org/.

Clean Air for the Long Haul is a subset of the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum, convened by WE ACT for Environmental Justice. The Platform for a Just Climate is convened by the Center for Earth, Energy, and Democracy.

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Air Quality & Pollution | Building Just Climate Futures | Coalition Members | Community-led Climate Solutions | Defending Our Climate Future | Energy Policy | Health Equity | Members of Congress | Policy Research & Advocacy

Federal Fire, Local Heat: Uplifting Just Climate Solutions at Congressional Earth Day Event
ByDuende April 22, 2026June 19, 2026

The House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) hosted an Earth Day 2026 strategy session and press conference titled Federal Fire, Local Heat at the US Capitol. Members of Congress, climate leaders, and frontline organizers came together for an Earth Day 2026 strategy session to align priorities in the face of federal rollbacks and policies that protect polluters. Dalal Aboulhosn, Managing Director for Programs and Policy at the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy (CEED), convener of the Platform for a Justice Climate, spoke alongside other climate justice leaders and members of Congress like Rep. Adelita Grijalva and Sen. Ed Markey. Watch and read Dalal’s remarks at Federal Fire, Local Heat below.

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Air Quality & Pollution | Building Just Climate Futures | Congressional Budget | Defending Our Climate Future | Energy Policy | Health Equity | Members of Congress

Fact Sheet: FY27 President’s Budget Request
ByDuende April 4, 2026June 24, 2026

President Trump released his FY27 budget plan on April 3rd, 2026. While the budget plan is not law, it sets the stage for debate in Congress over appropriation bills that determine how much funding each department, federal agency, or program covering different sectors (defense, education, environmental protection) receives and under what conditions. The budget plan tells us what this Administration prioritizes and how this Administration wants to spend money. Read the full fact sheet to learn more.

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Air Quality & Pollution | Building Just Climate Futures | Carbon Pollution Standards | Energy Policy | EPA | Mandatory Emissions Reductions | Policy Research & Advocacy

EJNCP Members on the EPA’s Proposal to Repeal all GHG Emission Standards
ByDuende August 21, 2025June 18, 2026

This summer, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) released a proposal to repeal all greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants. In response, some of the environmental justice …

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EPA’s Proposed New Carbon Pollution Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants will fail to protect EJ communities
ByDuende August 8, 2023June 16, 2026

The Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School, the Center for the Urban Environment of the John S. Watson Institute for Urban Policy and Research at Kean University, the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance (NJEJA), and the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy, along with 18 environmental justice and 9 allied organizations are submitting public comments today on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed carbon pollution standards for coal and new natural gas fired power plants.

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Building Just Climate Futures | Cumulative Impacts | Energy Policy | EPA | Policy Research & Advocacy

Letter on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Proposal to Grant Louisiana Primacy
ByDuende June 30, 2023June 16, 2026

Louisiana—a state entrenched in the fossil fuel industry and with one of the worst environmental records in the nation—could end up overseeing regulation of carbon dioxide waste if the state’s bid for primary enforcement responsibility – or primacy – over carbon dioxide waste injection wells is approved by the EPA. Below is a letter from members of the Equitable and Just National Climate Forum (EJNCF) to EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan

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Building Just Climate Futures | Energy Policy | Mandatory Emissions Reductions | Members of Congress | Policy Research & Advocacy

Equitable and Just National Climate Platform Members Oppose Fossil Fuel Industry’s Permitting Proposal and Call for Action on Environmental Justice for All Act
ByDuende August 30, 2022June 16, 2026

The Equitable and Just National Climate Platform (EJNCP), a coalition of environmental justice and national environmental groups, released the following statement in response to a permitting proposal under discussion between Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Congressional leadership. The proposal, which was leaked to the media and carried a watermark from the American Petroleum Institute – a fossil fuel trade association – would needlessly expedite permits and limit environmental review of pipeline projects, as well as force the approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, among other fossil fuel friendly provisions:

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Carbon Pollution Standards | Defending Our Climate Future | Energy Policy | EPA | Policy Research & Advocacy

Equitable and Just National Climate Platform Members Respond to Supreme Court Ruling that Undermines Climate Action, Urges Senate and Administration to Act
ByDuende July 5, 2022June 16, 2026

Last week, The Supreme Court issued its opinion in West Virginia v. EPA and sharply curbed the EPA’s ability to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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Air Quality & Pollution | Building Just Climate Futures | Energy Policy | Members of Congress | Policy Research & Advocacy

Equitable and Just National Climate Platform Signatories on Justice in Power Plant Permitting Act
ByDuende February 1, 2022June 16, 2026

In response to Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney’s introduction of the Justice in Power Plant Permitting Act, the coauthors of the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform, a coalition of environmental justice and national environmental groups, released the following statement…

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Environmental Justice and National Environmental Groups Advance a Historic Joint Climate Platform
ByDuende June 19, 2020June 15, 2026

To confront the widening dangers of our climate crisis, leading U.S. environmental justice and national environmental groups today are advancing for the first time an Equitable and Just National Climate Platform.
This bold and historic platform highlights a shared vision and calls for national climate action that confronts racial, economic, and environmental injustice as it enacts deep cuts in climate pollution and accelerates a pollution-free energy future that benefits all communities.

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