Trump Gives Coal Plants a Pass on Toxic Wastewater, While Ignoring Public Health Consequences
Trump’s big favor to coal results in lax controls for arsenic, mercury, and selenium dumped into U.S. waterways. The Trump administration has weakened standard…
Federal, White House | |Donald Trump Declares Himself One of History’s Greatest Environmentalists and Saves Florida from His Own Offshore Drilling Plan.
And he did it all with a straight face. President Trump has given one of the most extraordinary speeches of his (or perhaps any) administration, telling voters…
Federal, White House | |Critically Endangered Whales Fall Victim to Trump’s Interference in Science
The administration’s political considerations around expanding offshore drilling threaten the survival of the North Atlantic right whale. The Trump administrat…
Federal, White House | |Trump Refuses to Free the Lower Snake River of Its Dams—Ignoring Science, Tribes, and Starving Orcas
The Trump administration admits that removing the four dams would give endangered salmon their best chance against extinction, feed imperiled whales, and help …
Federal, White House | |Trump Quietly Offers Another Handout to the Oil Industry
The federal government was already undercharging for oil and gas taken from federal lands. Trump wants to ask the industry for even less. The Trump administrat…
Federal, White House | |Trump Tells U.S. Forest Service to Get Out of the Way of Oil Drills
Proposal would undermine the Forest Service’s ability to protect forests. The Trump administration wants to make it easier—much easier—for oil and gas companie…
Federal, White House | |Trump Proposes Redefining Showerhead So He Can Waste Water
Apparently, his royal locks demand more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute. The U.S. Department of Energy is changing the definition of showerhead so that Pr…
Federal, White House | |Trump Invites Oil Drills into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The move threatens 60 years of legal protections for this near-pristine land in our country’s far north. The Trump administration has finalized its plan to bri…
Federal, White House | |The RNC Eschews a New Platform—and Recycles Its 2016 Climate Change Denial
Why make up a new set of climate denials when you’ve already rejected science so categorically already? The Republican Party has made the extraordinary decisio…
The Biggest Moments from This Week’s (Virtual) Democratic National Convention
This year’s socially distanced DNC saw fewer big hats and balloon drops—but the same big push for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mat…
Trump Tells Oil and Gas Companies They Can Stop Curbing Methane Emissions
The rollback undoes a historic 2016 rule to control one of the worst greenhouse gases. The Trump administration has relieved fossil fuel companies of their leg…
Federal, White House | |Trump’s EPA Won’t Stop Uranium Miners from Contaminating Water
Toxic radioactive heavy metals and chemicals from uranium mines put drinking water off-limits for generations—and in places where there is no water to spare Wh…
Federal, White House | |Kamala Harris for Vice President!
The U.S. senator from California is serious about climate action, passionate about racial justice, and tough on environmental crime. By selecting Senator Kamal…
What’s Up with This Year’s Virtual Democratic National Convention?
Everything’s on the line. Here’s what you need to know to tune in as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris make their case for a stronger, more just America. This year’s…
Trump’s Airline Emissions Standards Are Meaningless
The first-ever rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft wouldn’t actually accomplish anything new. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) u…
Federal, White House | |The Army Corps of Engineers’ Environmental Analysis for Alaska’s Pebble Mine Is Fatally Flawed
The final environmental impact statement makes a mockery of the National Environmental Policy Act, ignoring a broad consensus of condemnation. Hopes were not h…
Federal, White House | |Biden’s Plan Is More than a Climate Plan
Joe Biden has provided a road map to an economically, environmentally, and morally superior future. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden relea…
Trump Takes a Torch to the National Environmental Policy Act
The Trump administration sets its sights on dismantling the Magna Carta of U.S. environmental law. The 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is nicknam…
Federal, White House | |Sharpiegate’s Conclusion: The White House Pressured the National Weather Service to Retract a Completely Accurate Statement
The culprit behind Sharpiegate will surprise no one. A new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Inspector General confirms what everyone in the world …
Federal, White House | |Trump Administration Makes It Harder to Put Your Retirement Money in Socially Responsible Companies
President Trump doesn’t want your investments making the world a better place. The U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposed rule recently that would make it …
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