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The Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform is a national network of grassroots Environmental and Economic Justice organizations and advocates in communities that are disproportionately impacted by toxic chemicals from legacy contamination, ongoing exposure to polluting facilities and health-harming chemicals in household products. EJHA supports a just transition towards safer chemicals and a pollution-free economy that leaves no community or worker behind. The EJHA network model features leadership of, by, and for Environmental Justice groups with support from additional allied groups and individual experts.
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February 19, 2026 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed weaker regulations for the nation’s most hazardous chemical facilities, drawing opposition from community, environmental justice, labor and environmental health groups. “This rollback will cost lives,” said Michele Roberts, National Coordinator of the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform. “EJHA affiliates refuse to continue to sacrifice their families’ health and safety for the profits of corporate polluters.” October 22, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Community, health, and environmental groups sued the Trump administration today to stop an executive action that would unlawfully exempt 50 of the country’s most toxic chemical manufacturing plants from protections that guard people against dangerous cancer-causing air pollutants, including ethylene oxide and chloroprene. “We’ve fought for decades to close loopholes and get real checks on chemical leaks. These standards target the dangerous chemicals that create a huge cancer risk in communities like Mossville, Louisiana, and others throughout the country,” said Michele Roberts, national coordinator of the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform (EJHA). “Delaying them is a policy choice with a human cost, measured in diagnoses, not dollars. The Clean Air Act doesn’t allow a president to waive our human right to health or hand polluters a free pass without evidence.” October 14, 2025 Coming Clean is seeking part-time, short-term administrative support for the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform (EJHA). The EJHA Administrative Associate will report to, and take direction from the EJHA National Organizer. October 9, 2025 As the federal government shutdown stretches into its second week, President Donald Trump is targeting nearly $30 billion in cuts to federal funding almost exclusively to Democratic states and cities. The impact of the cuts to public transit, energy projects, and fundamental civil rights programs could carry far-reaching harms across the nation and the economy. The cuts are the next step in the implementation of executive orders issued by Trump that strive to eradicate policies that advance racial and gender equity, tackle the climate crisis, and threaten the fossil fuel industry. "When the Biden-Harris administration came in, they did not just create plans in a vacuum, they went and listened to people in the community” to learn what projects were needed, “and financing flowed from those discussions,” Michele Roberts of the Environmental Justice Health Alliance. The programs included projects to address historic and ongoing environmental racism and injustices, and the disproportionate health and economic burdens in Black and Brown communities that followed.
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The Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform is a national network of grassroots Environmental and Economic Justice organizations and advocates in communities that are disproportionately impacted by toxic chemicals from legacy contamination, ongoing exposure to polluting facilities and health-harming chemicals in household products. EJHA supports a just transition towards safer chemicals and a pollution-free economy that leaves no community or worker behind. The EJHA network model features leadership of, by, and for Environmental Justice groups with support from additional allied groups and individual experts. Follow us and Take Action!
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