Dear Friend,

We’re defending the Good Neighbor Rule at the Supreme Court to stop deadly air pollution across the United States.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) instituted this historic rule in 2023, but now polluters and polluter-friendly states are asking the Supreme Court to suspend the rule — potentially costing thousands of lives in the years of subsequent litigation.

We already submitted written arguments to the Supreme Court, and are helping our allies prepare for oral arguments in just 4 weeks. Support our work with a monthly donation to Earthjustice today, and your first 12 months of donations will be matched $1:$1.

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The Good Neighbor Rule requires states with lax air pollution regulations to improve their standards if their air pollution affects other states. This is a massively consequential and historic rule, which would prevent thousands of premature deaths and reduce asthma attacks for millions of Americans.

These are the public health benefits the EPA predicts for 2026 alone:

Preventing approximately 1,300 premature deaths
Avoiding more than 2,300 hospital and emergency room visits
Cutting asthma symptoms by 1.3 million cases
Avoiding 430,000 school absence days
Avoiding 25,000 lost workdays

Air pollution does not stop at state borders. So states like Texas with lenient pollution controls can have massive negative health consequences for other states across the country.

In this case, Earthjustice is submitting arguments to the Supreme Court in support of the EPA. The Supreme Court will decide whether to stay — or pause — the Good Neighbor Rule while polluters attempt to strike down the rule on its merits in a lower court. But litigation could take years, so a stay of this rule could result in thousands of premature deaths.

Earthjustice is the legal backbone of the environmental movement, and since we represent our clients for free, we rely on the generous support of donors to continue our fight for a healthy planet. Monthly donations are an indispensable source of financial stability for our work, so for the rest of January, all new monthly donations will be matched $1:$1 for their first 12 months.

Friend, can you support our work by starting a monthly gift today? Our goal is 425 new monthly gifts to power our work this year and into the future.

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In partnership,
Neil Gormley
Senior Attorney, Earthjustice


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