Americans Vote for Powerful Check on Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda
Americans from coast-to-coast have voted for change, rejecting President Trump’s pro-polluter politics.
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Oil Lobbyist Confirmed to Safeguard Public Lands and Waters
WASHINGTON (April 11, 2019) – The Senate today voted to confirm David Bernhardt as Interior Secretary.The following is a statement from John Bowman, Managing Director of Government Affairs for the NRDC Action Fund:“Bernhardt’s long history of advocating for oil and gas, mining, agribusiness and other polluters makes him exactly the…
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The Other Front in Trump’s War on the Environment
This week, senators will vote on whether to confirm former oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt to be Secretary of the Interior. Much has been written about the EPA’s attempted dismantling of pollution and public health regulations under President Trump, but there’s another, equally destructive dimension to his administration’s…
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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” of the Green New Deal is that “it’s creating a very large space for a certain class of people, many of them in the Republican…
Climate Change and the 2020 Presidential Candidates: Where Do They Stand?
Climate change is getting unprecedented attention from the growing field of 2020 presidential candidates. These candidates are responding to the threats posed by a rapidly warming climate, the many economic opportunities in switching to clean energy and the increasing concern of the American people: according to the Yale Program…
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 Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia - are among the most vulnerable to the economic impacts of climate change. Overall, 15 of the 16 states…
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 the Climate Crisis. But two months after the election of a new crop of pro-environment governors and state lawmakers, climate progress is beginning…
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