September 11, 2019
Washington, DC -- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed bills banning offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Press Releases
September 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the New York Times reported that the acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr. to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) publicly disavow a Birmingham NOAA forecasters’ position that Alabama was not in the path of Hurricane Dorian. Ross then called acting NOAA director Dr. Neil Jacobs, threatening to fire top employees at NOAA for correcting Trump’s inaccurate portrayal of Hurricane Dorian’s path wrongly including Alabama.
September 11, 2019
Washington, DC -- A bill introduced in the Senate today would establish the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a wilderness area, permanently protecting it from destructive oil and gas exploration. The Arctic Refuge Protection Act was introduced by Sen. Maria Cantwell (WA); Sen. Tom Udall (NM); Sen. Michael Bennet (CO); Sen. Ed Markey (MA); Sen. Charles Schumer (NY); and Sen.
September 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, E&E News reported that notable climate denier William Happer will leave his post as a senior director on the National Security Council at the end of the week. Happer was tasked with running a now shelved panel on the impacts of the climate crisis on national security and was instrumental in blocking written testimony about the national security dangers of climate change from a State Department researcher.
10 de septiembre de 2019
Dos altos funcionarios de la Agencia Federal de Gestión de Emergencias (FEMA) fueron acusados y arrestados hoy por fraude y conspiración debido a su involucración en la recuperación de Puerto Rico tras el Huracán María.
September 10, 2019
The Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act, signed into law this July, set Illinois on a path to strong and protective coal ash rules. The law is now being drafted into rules by the Illinois EPA. The Agency will be holding the first of a series of listening sessions at the Gateway Building in Peoria to take input from the public.
September 10, 2019
Great Falls, MT— Conservation groups expanded their federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s illegal approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The groups are suing the Army Corps of Engineers over its streamlined approval of the pipeline, and today added claims challenging the Corps’ failure to ensure that endangered species would not be harmed by the project.
September 10, 2019
Little Rock, AR. -- Today, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has finalized a “regional haze” plan for Arkansas. This plan replaces a much stronger plan approved by EPA in 2016 that would have resulted in much more effective air pollution protections for certain national parks and wilderness areas in Arkansas and Missouri.
September 10, 2019
San Juan, Puerto Rico -- Today, two top FEMA officials from the Trump administration were indicted and arrested for fraud and conspiracy for their roles in Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria.
10 de septiembre de 2019
En unas audiencias tituladas “La Malvad Que Conocían: la Contaminación de PFAS y la Necesidad de Rendición de Cuentas Corporativas, Parte 3”, el Congreso oirá hoy a las corporaciones responsables de la contaminación de per y polifluoroalquilo (PFAS) y a las personas que se han querellado contra las compañías por negligencia.