We’re providing communities tools they need to
claim their rights under our environmental laws.
The public has a right to know about harmful air and water pollution and whether EPA and states are meeting their legal obligations to protect public health and the environment. Our laws also give individuals the power to enforce the law themselves when the government falters. Yet it takes access to pollution data and legal and technical resources to exercise this power, which is often difficult for impacted communities to obtain.
All our work is aimed at supporting communities suffering from air and water pollution. In addition to legal services, EIP provides communities with access to pollution and facility data, community organizing support, and the technical expertise to claim their rights under our environmental laws. EIP is working to provide impacted communities with access to critical technical expertise; increase access to information about pollution trends and facility-specific pollution data; and build strong, lasting partnerships in the places we work.
Environmental Justice
The Environmental Integrity Project seeks to serve environmental justice communities by engaging directly with residents, making air and water pollution data more accessible, and reducing pollution through environmental permit reviews and advocacy work.
Center for Applied Environmental Science
The Center for Applied Environmental Science seeks to advance environmental justice by ensuring that communities and environmental advocates have access to high-quality science and engineering expertise. We empower communities that have been disproportionately impacted by pollution as they seek to influence environmental decisions that affect their health and quality of life.
Pennsylvania Community Toolkit
With the ever-expanding oil and gas operations in our region, citizens, advocacy groups, and elected officials seem to have more questions than answers. And, because so much of this industrial development is new to most communities, finding facts on the operations and the permitting approval processes can seem daunting.
Advocate’s Guide for Challenging LNG Projects
This is a guide for advocates who want to challenge the construction of LNG export terminals. LNG terminals are some of the largest pollution sources built in the US today. They are also among the more complex facility types to challenge because of the number of agencies involved and overlapping laws with which they must comply.
