Election Boosts Chances of Climate, Environmental Action in the States
Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) (Photo: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan) Pro-environment gubernatorial candidates were vic…
Americans Vote for Powerful Check on Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda
Americans from coast-to-coast have voted for change. They rejected President Trump’s pro-polluter politics, instead handing control of the House of Representat…
10 Anti-Environment House Members We Won’t Miss in 2019
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), climate denier and endangered incumbent. The 2018 election is likely to bring a lot of new faces to Washington, and some anti…
The Senate Has Voted. Now it’s Our Turn.
The NRDC Action Fund opposed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination because a thorough examination of his lengthy legal record showed he has repeatedly rul…
Endangered species now in Washington’s crosshairs
Nearly half a century after President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law, Congress, the Trump administration and anti-environment lobbyists acros…
How to save the planet this November
Scott Pruitt has left the building, but the new EPA acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, is determined to continue his predecessor’s dangerous rollbacks of Am…
Elections | |Trump’s Anti-Environment Budget Highlights the Stakes this November
Credit: flickr/justgrimes Budgets reflect values, and President Trump’s values are out of step with the majority of Americans who want a healthier, safer and m…
Updates | |Voters Rewrite 2018 Political Playbook
This year’s decisive election results remind us that voters, not pundits or political operatives, will decide what we can accomplish in America. Voters yesterd…
Updates | |Virginia’s Golden Opportunity to Lead
On Tuesday, Virginians have an opportunity to reject the Trump administration’s reckless and destructive environmental agenda. Showing up to vote has rarely, i…
Updates | |Donald Trump vs. the Pursuit of Happiness
To stop President Trump’s and his congressional allies’ assault on human health and the environment, return to America’s founding principles. President Trump a…
Updates | |Paris Pullout: Fight Back at the Ballot Box
When the president and our elected representatives in Congress ignore reason, science and public opinion, the only way to get their attention is at the ballot …
Updates | |Trumpcare 2.0: President Launches Next Assault on Public Health
When Americans learned last month that President Trump’s plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act would result in 24 million people losing their health insurance…
Updates | |Fight Washington’s Attack on Environmental Enforcement
On the morning of January 9, 2014, residents near Charleston, West Virginia contacted local officials with reports of an unusual sweet smell in the air, the so…
Updates | |Pruitt unfit to protect health, environment at EPA
Big polluters want to help pick the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator, and that’s a big problem. This week we learned energy industry execut…
Updates | |Will Trump ignore U.S. business leaders on clean energy?
To hear him tell it, the president-elect isn’t a politician – he’s a businessman and an expert negotiator. But his ideas on energy policy run counter to …
Updates | |Richard Burr’s silence on climate change is dangerous for North Carolina
North Carolinians should elect Deborah Ross their next U.S. Senator. Your children will thank you for it. Hurricane Matthew, a record-setting storm that dumped…
Updates | |About Pence’s “War on Coal”
At Tuesday’s vice presidential debate, Donald Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, alleged that over the past seven and a half years, President Obama…
Updates | |Donald Trump should stop lying about coal
On Wednesday, the Obama Administration announced $38.8 million in federal grants for economic development projects in communities that are experiencing the tou…
Updates | |Trump’s GOP accelerates assault on the environment
If the selection of climate denier Donald Trump as their standard-bearer wasn’t an obvious enough clue, Republican leaders this week dropped any pretense that …
Updates | |Why does Sen. Kirk keep voting against clean water?
For more than two years now, the people of Flint, Mich., have been warned to drink bottled or filtered water because the stuff coming out of their taps is tain…
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