Marco Rubio is Missing in Action on Climate Change
Florida’s senators have abandoned their responsibility to represent the interests of their constituents when it comes to climate change. This crisis has dire c…
Why the Lights are Out in Texas
A historic freeze this week plunged every county in Texas into a winter weather advisory and caused the state’s electricity system to fail, with 4 million cust…
How We Helped Make 2020 “The Climate Election”
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the White House on a bold promise to rebuild America, invest in our long-neglected infrastructure and create jobs while tacklin…
Michigan’s Future is on the Ballot
Not since the Great Recession have the stakes been higher for Michigan families and autoworkers. The state has an incredible legacy with a highly skilled workf…
A Biden Presidency Could Help Lead the World to Greater Climate Action
On November 4, President Trump will formally withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. That short-sighted move could be a short-term departure from …
Biden and Harris See Pennsylvania’s Future—and it’s Clean
Pennsylvania is one of the country’s fastest-growing markets for clean energy. It employed some 94,000 people in the state before the pandemic hit, with more t…
Cory Gardner Is Only an Election-Year Environmentalist
In Washington, Senator Cory Gardner votes with Donald Trump and against the environment an astounding 90 percent of the time. But when he’s running for office …
Biden Understands Climate-Fueled Wildfires Are a Human Tragedy
Seldom is the choice between presidential candidates spelled out more clearly than it was on Monday. With wildfires torching more than five million acres from …
Gina McCarthy: Trump Agenda Benefits Polluters, Not People
WASHINGTON (July 16, 2020) – President Trump is expected to deliver remarks at the White House today touting his administration’s deregulatory record. The spee…
Washington Needs to Clean Up Transportation
Washington state got back in the driver’s seat on climate last year, passing several monumental bills to fight climate change and support clean energy. That i…
Fifty Years of Environmental Progress Threatened
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival, but there was more to the summer of ’69 than bell bottoms, blues, and butterflies. That s…
Ohio Lawmakers Bail Out Coal Plants, Boost Trump
On the campaign trail in 2016, President Trump promised to save the coal industry by eliminating environmental safeguards and cutting limits on greenhouse gas …
Climate Deniers Warn GOP Lawmakers: Stay Loyal
“I don’t lose any sleep over it.” Those were the words Interior Secretary David Bernhardt used at a House hearing on May 15 to describe his level of concern ab…
House Passes First Climate Bill in a Decade
WASHINGTON (May 2, 2019) – The House of Representatives today, in a bipartisan vote, passed H.R.9, the Climate Action Now Act. The following is a statement fro…
GOP’s Climate Deniers Feeling the Heat
At a recent forum in Washington, leading climate science skeptic Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute told attendees that one of the “dangers” o…
Climate Change Will Hit Economies Hardest in Trump States, Report Finds
A recent report from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program has found that states President Trump won in the 2016 election – including F…
Election Outcomes Lead to Climate Action Across U.S.
In Washington, D.C., this month, climate change headlines have focused on the Green New Deal and the establishment of the new U.S. House Select Committee on th…
A New Call to National Climate Action
Minutes after opening the 116th Congress last week, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a stirring call to national action on what she called “th…
Ads Urge Sen. Tillis to Protect North Carolina, Oppose Offshore Drilling
(Washington – December 11, 2018) Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) should protect North Carolina’s beaches and oppose the Trump administration’s plans to open waters o…
Rick Scott’s Dirty Drilling Deal With Donald
Five days after releasing an extreme plan to expose all of America’s coasts to offshore drilling, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke rushed to Florida to meet with …
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