Earlier today, Senator Susan Collins said that “If in fact [Kavanaugh] was not truthful, then obviously that would be a major problem for me,” referring to Donald Trump’s extremist nominee for the Supreme Court. During Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, documents emerged raising the possibility that Judge Kavanaugh previously lied under oath on more than one occasion.
At hundreds of events across the globe today, including more than 260 in the United States alone, tens of thousands of people are taking action on climate under the banner of Rise for Climate, and in the U.S. Rise for Climate Jobs, and Justice. Representing a powerful coalition and movement, communities are gathering to demand that elected leaders at all levels increase their ambitions and take bold action on climate, jobs and justice.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing came to a close. During a tense second day of questioning, Kavanaugh’s calculated exterior started to crack, revealing some of his most extreme views -- including that he considers contraceptives to be “abortion-inducing drugs.” Documents emerged raising the possibility that Judge Kavanaugh previously lied under oath on more than one occasion. Nearly 90 percent of Kavanaugh’s record from his time in the George W. Bush White House has not yet been released.
Pensacola, FL -- Today, the district court in the Northern District of Florida ordered the Secretary of State to require 32 counties in the state to provide Spanish-language sample ballots at polling places, on county websites and by mail to aid voters. The ruling, made under Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act, is needed as Floridian ballots are still in English-only. The order protects the voting rights of thousands of Puerto Ricans who fled Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria struck last year and resettled in Florida.
Former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced today that he will only hold one public hearing for his plan to rollback the Clean Power Plan.
WASHINGTON, DC — Over the last seven years, National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) has inspired drivers to kick gas, and as the eighth annual NDEW launches today, it boasts more events than ever before. There are more than 320 events registered in all 50 states and several countries that feature plug-in electric vehicles (EVs). Through test drives, parades, news conferences, and announcements of new EV policies and programs, NDEW community events demonstrate how EVs are cleaner, cheaper, and more fun to operate than vehicles powered by fossil fuels.
Today, the Trump Administration directly threatened the future of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of America’s iconic wilderness areas. Administration officials announced that the United States Forest Service will allow companies to pursue sulfide ore mining leases immediately adjacent to the Boundary Waters. Today’s announcement also included an abrupt end to an incomplete and never-released environmental study of sulfide mining impacts in the BWCA watershed that was started under the Obama Administration.
This morning, Senate Democrats continued to fulfill their duty by exposing some of the damaging records from Brett Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush White House. But these new documents are just a snapshot of the hundreds of thousands of documents the Trump administration is still trying to hide. What is in those records? And why don’t Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Chuck Grassley want them released?
Media outlets reported that Steven Gardner, a coal industry insider beholden to polluters, has withdrawn his nomination to Direct the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE).
Saturday, September 8th, Comunidades Unidas, the Utah Sierra Club, and 350.org are hosting a voter registration drive and educational event at the Northwest Recreation and Community Center in the Fairpark neighborhood of Salt Lake City. This event is affiliated with the national call to action to Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice, and coincides with thousands of simultaneous events across the country, including the People’s Climate March in San Francisco, California.