February 1, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Congress used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to scrap the Stream Protection Rule (SPR) today, putting the health of thousands of Americans living near coal mining sites at serious risk.
federal-policy
January 17, 2017
Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is holding a hearing to examine the nomination of U.S. Rep. Tom Price from Georgia to be President-elect Donald Trump’s head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
February 1, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Congress used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to scrap the Stream Protection Rule (SPR) today, putting the health of thousands of Americans living near coal mining sites at serious risk.
January 16, 2017
Clean air and water advocates are delivered “Pruitt Survival Kits” to members of the United States Senate today.
February 1, 2017
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, in a vote boycotted by Democrats over unanswered questions by the nominee, Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee changed the rules so that they could force through Scott Pruitt’s nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), disregarding Pruitt’s conflicts of interest and hostility to federal public health protections.
January 16, 2017
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today is holding a hearing to examine the nomination of Rep. Ryan Zinke to serve as Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
January 30, 2017
Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to confirm Rep. Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Governor Rick Perry as the Secretary of the Department of Energy.
January 12, 2017
According to E&E News, those working for and supporting Oklahoma Attorney General and Trump nominee to be EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, have opened a new political operation while shuttering his leadership PAC and Super PAC.
January 29, 2017
President Trump signed an executive order this morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded.
January 26, 2017
This week, Myron Ebell, the former head of President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team, said he expects the agency to see significant cuts in its budget and workforce-- by up to at least half to begin with.
January 24, 2017
In response to reporting this morning from Reuters indicating that "U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website" Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement.
September 10, 2017
White House Homeland Security Advisory Tom Bossert, when pressed on the increased severity and frequency of Hurricanes by a White House reporter, just told the American people that “We continue to take the climate change seriously, not the cause of it, but the things that we observe.” This statement stands in stark contrasts to the actual actions taken by this administration, including repeated efforts to defund climate change research, censorship of the term “climate change” throughout the federal government, the appointment of climate deniers to the highest posts in the Administration, and the elimination of President Obama’s flood risk rule just weeks before Hurricane Harvey hit.