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…
Election Boosts Chances of Climate, Environmental Action in the States
Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) (Photo: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan)Pro-environment gubernatorial candidates were victorious this year from the Eastern Seaboard to the Golden Gate. With pro-environment lawmakers now heading to numerous governors’ mansions and state legislatures, bold climate action is increasingly possible in these…
Coastal South Carolina Voters Reject Offshore Drilling
The environment was one key reason Republicans lost the midterms, according to an op-ed from Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), in yesterday’s NY Times:The environment matters to voters. As a party, we have somehow forgotten that conservatism should apply to more than just financial resources. Being conservative should entail being conservative…
Americans Vote for Powerful Check on Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda
Americans from coast-to-coast have voted for change. They rejected President Trump’s pro-polluter politics, instead handing control of the House of Representatives to a leadership team that embraces common sense environmental safeguards and welcomes the clean energy economy.Lawmakers in the House will be able to hold the Trump administration accountable…
Come Tuesday, Let’s Bring It
Illustration: Jorge Colombo NRDC Action Fund President Rhea Suh (Photo: Zoe Fisher)For nearly two years, we’ve seen President Trump wage the worst White House assault in history on our environment and health. Rolling back commonsense safeguards, slashing enforcement budgets, ignoring sound science and walking away from the progress we’ve…
Elections | |10 Anti-Environment House Members We Won’t Miss in 2019
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), climate denier and endangered incumbent.The 2018 election is likely to bring a lot of new faces to Washington, and some anti-environment House incumbents will likely be out of a job. Here are several we certainly wouldn’t miss if they are defeated. These races, some rated…
Are You Ready for November 6th?
With less than a week to go until Election Day, many races are deadlocked and control of Congress is up for grabs. The margins may be small, but the stakes are enormous. This is our biggest chance yet to tell President Trump and his pro-polluter allies in Congress that…
Tallying the Costs of Trump’s Reckless Assault on the Environment and Public Health
President Donald Trump with then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Secretary of the Interior Ryan ZinkeAmid the rancor and chaos President Trump has brought to Washington, it’s easy to overlook the unconscionable toll of widening hazard and enduring harm he’s imposing on the country, by waging the worst White House…
Elections, Uncategorized | |8 Senate Races We’re Watching This Year
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.)The NRDC Action Fund’s primary goal in the 2018 election cycle is to defend—and with some luck expand—our Senate Green Firewall. To that end, we’ve endorsed a record 20 environmental champions in Senate races across the country, but a handful of them face a challenging path…
Vote for the Environment and Climate Action in the West
Solar panels collect sunlight at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt Sarah Ruckriegle)Voting for a healthy planet for future generations is a responsibility that extends well beyond Congress. While we here at the NRDC Action Fund are focused on greening Congress, this election…
Elections | |New Climate Report Raises Stakes on 2018 Elections
A polar bear drifts on a melted glacier. (Photo: NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission)The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gathered in South Korea this week and delivered a dire warning: unless unprecedented steps are taken by the world’s governments to reduce emissions in the next decade, our planet…
NRDC Action Fund Endorses Beto O’Rourke in Texas Senate Race
The NRDC Action Fund, a national environmental organization, today announced its endorsement of Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) in his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas.“Beto O’Rourke shares the values of Texas families who care about safe water, clean air and protecting wildlife and wild places,” said Kevin S.…
The Senate Has Voted. Now it’s Our Turn.
The NRDC Action Fund opposed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination because a thorough examination of his lengthy legal record showed he has repeatedly ruled in ways that would weaken the common-sense laws and regulations all Americans rely on to protect our families and the environment. When Kavanaugh’s character and…
The Green Wave Starts Today
The planet needs us this November. If President Trump and his allies in Congress continue their assault on the environment, our water will be less safe, our air will get dirtier, and climate change will continue to threaten our economy, our health, and our way of life.Electing pro-environment candidates…
Elections | |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…
How to save the planet this November
Scott Pruitt has left the building, but the new EPA acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, is determined to continue his predecessor’s dangerous rollbacks of America’s environmental safeguards. Wheeler said so himself to the Washington Examiner: “Of course we are absolutely implementing Presidents Trump’s agenda.”Try as he might to undo the nearly five…
Elections | |Major Environmental Groups Endorse Sen. Debbie Stabenow for Re-Election
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund and the NRDC Action Fund, two leading national environmental groups, announced today their endorsements of Senator Debbie Stabenow for re-election to the U.S. Senate from Michigan.“Senator Stabenow is a tireless advocate for public health and the environment in Michigan and across…
Elections, Press Releases | |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…
