Yesterday, Donald Trump and his Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler leveled the single biggest assault against our climate and clean air in US history. The backlash and response has been swift. Here’s a bit of what people are saying:
It’ll worsen public health, national security.
BOSTON--Two leading Massachusetts climate organizations: The Massachusetts Sierra Club and 350 Mass Action have endorsed newcomer Nika Elugardo in her race to unseat incumbent House Ways and Means Chair Jeffrey Sanchez.
Voters in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Mission Hill, and Brookline will decide between Elugardo and Sánchez in the upcoming Democratic primary on Tuesday, September 4.
Today, the Trump administration announced a plan to work with the state of Alaska on a special rule that would undermine protections for millions of acres of pristine, old-growth forest in the Tongass and Chugach National Forests.
Last night, the Trump Administration approved a $2.5 billion energy project near Joshua Tree National Park. The Eagle Crest Energy Company’s 1,300 megawatt hydropower project would drain billions of gallons of water from the desert aquifer and harm local desert species.
Minneapolis, MN – Today the Sierra Club North Star Chapter announced its endorsement of Ilhan Omar for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district. .
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hours after the Trump administration announced a rollback of clean car standards, activists showed up on the Trump administration’s doorstep with a powerful visual representation of what’s at stake: cardboard cutouts of children.
Amid the growing chorus of condemnation for drilling in the Arctic region and specifically in the Arctic Refuge, Wells Fargo has been silent.
Washington, DC -- Today, NHTSA Deputy Administrator Heidi King and Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler unveiled their new proposed fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for passenger cars and light-duty trucks, which would roll back the clean car standards for these vehicles put in place under the Obama administration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced today that he would not revise or repeal the 2015 smog pollution standard that helps protect vulnerable communities with serious health conditions from dirty air, but serious threats to the standard remain.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Maria Cantwell today introduced the Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2018. The Act would permanently codify the Roadless Rule, which safeguards 58.5 million acres of pristine National Forest System lands across 39 states from logging and road building. Despite the Roadless Rule’s many successes and the millions of taxpayer dollars it saves, there have been multiple Congressional attempts to strip Roadless Rule protections from millions of acres of public lands.