How We Helped Make 2020 “The Climate Election”
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the White House on a bold promise to rebuild America, invest in our long-neglected infrastructure and create jobs while tacklin…
Michigan’s Future is on the Ballot
Not since the Great Recession have the stakes been higher for Michigan families and autoworkers. The state has an incredible legacy with a highly skilled workf…
A Biden Presidency Could Help Lead the World to Greater Climate Action
On November 4, President Trump will formally withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. That short-sighted move could be a short-term departure from …
Biden and Harris See Pennsylvania’s Future—and it’s Clean
Pennsylvania is one of the country’s fastest-growing markets for clean energy. It employed some 94,000 people in the state before the pandemic hit, with more t…
Trump Lets Dangerous Coal Ash Ponds Pollute Indefinitely
Ignoring massive toxic spills and years of research, Trump pretends unlined coal ash ponds are safe. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced t…
The Worst Polluters Are Getting an Easy Ride Under Trump
Clean Water Act prosecutions dropped 70 percent and Clean Air Act prosecutions dropped 50 percent, compared to those during the Obama years. The Trump administ…
Trump Administration Denies Wolverines Protection Under the Endangered Species Act
Climate change is rapidly shrinking the habitat of this iconic and dwindling North American species, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has apparently forg…
Cory Gardner Is Only an Election-Year Environmentalist
In Washington, Senator Cory Gardner votes with Donald Trump and against the environment an astounding 90 percent of the time. But when he’s running for office …
Trump Administration Tells Tribes They Have No Say in Oil Drilling on Their Lands
The Supreme Court ruled that half of Oklahoma is tribal land—yet the EPA says the tribes don’t get to control fossil fuel extraction on those lands. The Trump …
Trump Is Stalling on the Country’s Most Important Climate Change Report
The Trump administration should have started working on the next National Climate Assessment already—but it hasn’t yet recruited a single scientist. The Trump …
The Trump Administration Tried to Suppress a Study Showing Oil Drilling’s Threat to Alaska’s Polar Bears
U.S. Geological Survey director Jim Reilly, who—surprise, surprise—used to work for the oil industry, is telling scientists how to count polar bear dens in the…
Trump Repeals Decades-Old and Very Effective Air Pollution Rule
The “once in, always in” policy has prevented 1.7 million tons of hazardous emissions from entering the country’s air. The U.S. Environmental Protection …
The Trump Administration Says It’s Doing a Good Job Cleaning Toxic Waste Sites—Don’t Fall for It.
The president is using an accounting trick to claim credit for past administrations’ work in remediating Superfund sites. Under Donald Trump, the U.S. Environm…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Rush to Confirm a Justice Silences Voters’ Voices
Days after the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are already eager to rush throu…
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…
Biden Understands Climate-Fueled Wildfires Are a Human Tragedy
Seldom is the choice between presidential candidates spelled out more clearly than it was on Monday. With wildfires torching more than five million acres from …