Press Releases

Wheeler Does Bidding for Polluters and Puts Drinking Water for Millions of Families at Risk

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler finalized his rollback of America’s Clean Water Rule today, putting millions of people’s drinking water at risk from dangerous water pollution.

Legislation to Block Destructive Arctic Refuge Drilling Passes House of Representatives

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to keep drills out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Introduced by Rep. Jared Huffman, the Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act would repeal a provision in the controversial December 2017 tax bill that opened up the refuge’s sensitive coastal plain for drilling. The bill passed 225-193 with bipartisan support.

Fossil fuel path for Santee Cooper Is most expensive for customers going forward

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A new report being distributed to lawmakers shows that a Santee Cooper future based on additional fossil-fuel power will saddle customers with hundreds of millions of dollars in higher costs in the future compared to other energy options.

Sierra Club Releases Report Calling for New York to Reduce Transportation Emissions 55% by 2035

ALBANY, NEW YORK -- Today, the Sierra Club released a report calling for Governor Cuomo to set a state-wide target to reduce on-road transportation emissions 55% by 2035, in order to meet New York’s long-term climate goals.

Michiganders, Sick From Military’s Pollution, Demand Congress Take Action on Chemical Contamination

Oscoda, MI-- Today, the Air Force’s Wurtsmith Restoration Advisory Board met in Oscoda to discuss environmental remediation plans at Wurtsmith Air Force Base-- a site highly contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) due to the agency’s use of PFAS-based fire fighting foams. Community leaders called from the U.S. Air Force to clean up the PFAS contamination from the former Wurtsmith Air Force. PFAS is linked to ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, and certain cancers.

House of Representatives Passes Bipartisan Bills to Keep Big Oil Out of Public Waters

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. 

Report: White House Directed Sec. Ross to Threaten NOAA

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.

New Senate Bill Would Permanently Protect Arctic Refuge from Drilling

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.

Breaking: Climate Denier William Happer Leaving White House Post

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.

Funcionarios de la Administración Trump Arrestados por Corrupción en Puerto Rico

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.