Trump Moves to Block California’s Transition to Electric Vehicles
Trump loves nothing more than to troll the Golden State. If there’s one thing Donald Trump knows how to do, it’s troll. And he’s doing it again to one of his f…
Federal, White House | |NRDC Action Fund 2020 Voter Guide: MICHIGAN
The state Donald Trump won by a mere 10,700 votes in 2016 is once again in the spotlight. Contaminated drinking water has been a huge issue for the people of M…
Elections | |Trump Has Offered NOAA Jobs to Nearly Every High-Profile Climate Change Denier
The president is trying to leave an enduring legacy of science denial at the nation’s premiere climate agency. The Trump administration is attempting to pack t…
Federal, White House | |Trump’s Lead Contamination Plan Is a Sham
As long as lead service lines deliver our water, there will be more Flints. In the run-up to Election Day, you’re going to hear the Trump administration boast …
Federal, White House | |NRDC Action Fund 2020 Voter Guide: PENNSYLVANIA
In a state that elects Republicans and Democrats in more or less equal measure, every vote counts—and every vote is hard-won. It’s little wonder presidential c…
Elections | |Trump Ignores EPA Data Showing Pesticide Threatens Children’s Brains
A large body of data shows chlorpyrifos causes learning disabilities, but Trump’s EPA is looking the other way. Five years ago, scientists at the U.S. Environm…
Federal, White House | |Biden/Harris vs. Trump/Pence: Your Guide to Watching the 2020 Presidential Debates
Here’s the when, where, and how for tuning in to the debates as the candidates tackle today’s biggest issues (or try to). Pop the popcorn. Warm up your Twitter…
Elections | |Trump Recommends a Climate Change Minimizer as NOAA Chief Scientist
Ryan Maue, a self-described “lukewarmist,” is the second climate contrarian headed to NOAA within a month. The count is now at two for climate contrarians head…
Federal, White House | |EPA Cancels Environmental Justice Discussions, as Trump Suggests They Are “Anti-American”
No, polluting low-income neighborhoods and communities of color is simply wrong and racist—and it’s high time government agencies started addressing it. The U.…
Federal, White House | |A Climate Change Denier at NOAA
Trump appoints David Legates, a climatologist who couldn’t hack it at the Delaware state government, to a leadership position at our country’s leading climate …
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 | |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 | |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 | |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 | |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…
Elections | |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 | |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 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 | |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…
