January 19, 2021
Press Releases
January 19, 2021
Sierra Club and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against EPA after former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler (for the next 24 hours) declined to correct the legal limit for dangerous particulate matter pollution, also known as soot. Wheeler had instead decided to retain the flawed 2012 standard despite medical evidence that the 2012 standard fails to protect public health.
January 19, 2021
NEW YORK— National environmental groups filed a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York challenging the Trump administration’s reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which eliminated longstanding, vital protections for more than 1,000 species of waterfowl, raptors and songbirds.
January 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer designated the For The People Act as S.1, the honorary first bill the new Senate will take up this term.
19 de enero de 2021
La Corte Federal de Apelaciones del Distrito de Columbia invalidó la regla conocida como “Energía Limpia Asequible” y la envió de nuevo a la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA).
January 19, 2021
Hartford, C.T.--Governor Lamont’s Council on Climate Change released their final Phase 1 report on how the state can meet its climate goals of 45% carbon reductions by 2030.
January 19, 2021
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the ‘Affordable Clean Energy’ rule and remanded it to the EPA.
January 15, 2021
Washington, DC -- Today, President-elect Joe Biden announced his planned appointments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). This office will provide scientific expertise on a number of critical issues, including the ongoing pandemic and the climate crisis.
January 15, 2021
Environmental groups sued the Trump administration today over its finalization of the nation’s first-ever airplane climate emissions standards, which don’t actually reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
January 15, 2021
The Trump administration is expected to release today a final proposal to transfer ownership of Oak Flat, a sacred land to a dozen Indigenous Tribes, to a mining company with ties to the destruction of an Aboriginal site in Australia. The move comes just days before Trump leaves office and comes despite years of opposition from Apache-Stronghold, the San Carlos Apache Tribe, and other Tribal entities, religious leaders, locals, and environmental groups.