Save the Senate’s “Green Firewall”
It’s no secret that the Trump administration wants to neuter the EPA’s ability to enforce our clean air and clean water laws, repeatedly submitting budgets that would dramatically cut the agency’s funding. But for the votes of a key bloc of pro-environment senators – the U.S. Senate’s “Green Firewall”…
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 across Washington, D.C. are attempting the largest rollback of this visionary conservation law in its history. They are clearly worried about the upcoming elections, so they’re rushing to…
Montana GOP picks anti-environment Senate nominee
Republican primary voters in Montana last week chose State Auditor Matt Rosendale (R) to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D) this November, setting up a contest between two candidates whose environmental records could not be more different. Tester, a third-generation farmer, is a pragmatic champion for public lands, clean rivers and…
