DES MOINES, IA – Early this morning, Representatives Randy Feenstra, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Ashley Hinson, and Zachary Nunn cast votes to advance Donald Trump’s massive budget reconciliation package that would endanger Iowa residents’ clean air and water, fast-track reckless oil and gas leasing and development, and raise costs on Iowa’s working families—all to give more tax cuts and handouts to billionaires and corporate polluters. With their votes, the bill passed 215-214 and now heads to the United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reports emerged Thursday morning that Donald Trump would pick a top oil and gas lobbyist to oversee federal public lands in Alaska. Kara Moriarty will be Trump’s pick to lead the Department of the Interior’s work in Alaska. Moriarty currently serves as the president and CEO of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association.
WASHINGTON STATE – Today, a coalition of environmental, consumer, and community organizations joined a challenge to the Trump administration’s unlawful and indefinite freeze of billions in federal funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program, a transformative, $5 billion initiative to build electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles on major corridors across all 50 states.
TAMPA, Fla. – Emera, owner of Tampa Electric Company (TECO), hosted its 2025 Annual Shareholders Meeting today. As a show of unity and public accountability, local residents and activists watched a live broadcast of the meeting during a fifth annual People Power Lunch run by Sierra Club Florida, Central Florida Jobs with Justice, and Urban Progress Alliance.
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. – Early this morning, Rep. Young Kim (CA-40) cast the deciding vote to advance Donald Trump’s massive budget reconciliation package that would endanger California resident’s clean air and water, fast-track reckless oil and gas leasing and development, and raise costs on working families—all to give more tax cuts and handouts to billionaires and corporate polluters.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an unprecedented move, the Senate today passed Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions introduced by Senate Republicans to repeal three California clean vehicle programs: Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks, and Heavy-Duty low-NOx Omnibus.
Washington, DC – Early this morning, House Republicans voted to advance Donald Trump’s massive budget reconciliation package that would endanger our clean air and water, fast-track reckless oil and gas leasing and development, and raise costs on working families—all to give more tax cuts and handouts to billionaires and corporate polluters. The bill passed by a single vote, 215-214, and now heads to the Senate where it faces an uncertain fate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The final House version of the Republican reconciliation package will not include mandates to sell potentially hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in the West. Other public land provisions, such as advancing the Ambler mining road in Alaska, controversial provisions affecting the Western Arctic, and rollbacks to land use plans were also stricken from the bill.
GREENBELT, MD -- Four conservation groups filed suit today in U.S. District Court to challenge a government plan that fails to properly protect rare species, including Rice’s whales and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, from being harmed or killed by fossil fuel drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.
Move comes as Republicans attempt to cut IRA funding through budget reconciliation