Week 56: Pruitt’s Travel Is a First-Class Waste of Money

The Trump administration has the money to fly Scott Pruitt first class, but not enough for renewable energy or climate change research? Pruitt Doesn’t Travel C…
Sen. Bob Casey endorsed by the NRDC Action Fund

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 16, 2018 Contact: Denis Dison, NRDC Action Fund | [email protected] | 202-717-8293 Washington – United States Senator Bob Casey (…
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…
Week 55: EPA Climate Confusion―What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger

Pruitt speculates that climate change is healthy, Trump is looking for a few good scientists, and the dog ate the State Department’s carbon emissions report. &…
Poll: Illinois Dems favor strong pro-environment candidate for governor

A new poll commissioned by the NRDC Action Fund finds Illinois Democratic primary voters strongly prefer gubernatorial candidates who are willing to stake out …
Updates | Denis Dison |Week 54: Dear President Trump, Coal Is Neither Clean Nor Beautiful

Trump sees beauty in environmental destruction and lies about sea ice, while Scott Pruitt is outed for personally scrubbing climate change from the EPA website…
NRDC Action Fund endorses Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Bill Nelson

Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) today earned the endorsement of the NRDC Action Fund, a national organization working to build politic…
Week 52: Zinke Didn’t Do His Job

The Interior secretary’s negligence on offshore drilling, a mass resignation at the National Parks Service board, and the oil and gas industry’s hunger for eve…
Week 51: Back to the Drawing Board, Rick Perry

FERC smacks down Rick Perry on coal, Zinke plays favorites with Florida, and Pruitt is investigated (again). Rick Perry Gets Totally FERC’d The Federal Energy …
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 …
Updates | Franz Matzner |Week 50: When It Gets Cold, Trump’s Climate Change Denial Heats Up

Trump bloviates on climate, blows off the United Nations, and deregulates blowout preventers. Ice-Cold Nonsense Donald Trump ended a year of climate change fli…
NRDC Action Fund announces first wave of 2018 Senate endorsements

Washington – Nine incumbent Senate candidates today earned the endorsement of the NRDC Action Fund, a national organization working to build political support …
Week 49: As We Approach the End of Trump’s First Year, the DOI and EPA Are in Tatters

Just how badly has Trump damaged the agencies that protect our environment in the short time he’s been in the White House? As a candidate for president,…
Week 48: The Planet Is Warming, but the EPA Can Still Chill Speech

EPA employees are silenced, Pruitt is paranoid, and now’s your chance to sound off. Big Pruitt Was Watching You already knew it was bad working at Scott Pruitt…
The tax cut bill is an environmental catastrophe. How did your senators vote?

The U.S. Senate has approved a huge giveaway to fossil fuel companies and other polluters to fund a massive tax cut for corporations and the wealthy. The tax c…
Week 47: The EPA Isn’t That Into Enforcing Environmental Laws

Plus, NASA is ordered off climate research while Trump (maybe) acknowledges climate change. The Failing EPA In its first nine months, the U.S. Environmental Pr…
Week 46: Trump Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante—and Gains Lawsuits

Trump primes for drilling under a national treasure, Murkowski makes inroads in the Tongass, and there’s no stopping the oil trains. We Can’t Bear It President…
Montana ads hit Trump on national parks funding

WASHINGTON (December 6, 2017) – Television ads sponsored by the NRDC Action Fund began airing across Montana today encouraging Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) to opp…
Week 45: A Mountain of Resistance

EPA gets an earful in West Virginia, a Trump appointee has a lying problem, and Trump undoes lots of rules. Can You Hear This, Scott Pruitt? The U.S. Environme…
Tell Congress: Stop the Arctic Giveaway

Republican leaders in Congress are trying to open our pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to catastrophic oil drilling — the worst threat to the…
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