A new letter to Scott Pruitt from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, finds that new policies implemented at the EPA to process FOIA requests are delaying the release of information on Pruitt’s activities and behavior at the EPA.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court narrowly ruled 5-4 in the Husted v. APRI case, which will uphold the Ohio’s aggressive voter roll purges of people who vote infrequently. Ohio has purged more than 2 million voters in the past seven years, which is more than any other state in the nation. Voter purges disproportionately affect communities of color, veterans, low-income communities, young people, and disabled and elderly people. Today’s decision opens up the possibility of other states to follow Ohio’s lead in disenfranchising eligible Americans from voting.
QUEBEC, CANADA -- Today, the annual G-7 summit concluded with a G-6 communiqué that excludes the U.S. after Trump decided to remove the U.S. at the last minute. Earlier in the day, Trump notably excluded the U.S. from the G-6 commitment to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Donald Trump continues to isolate the U.S. on a number of issues, including trade and the need to address the climate crisis.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club is mobilizing its members across the country to attend the March for the Ocean. In Washington DC, and around the country, the March for the Ocean Campaign is mounting mass marches, flotillas and rallies, calling for a stop to offshore drilling that threatens our ocean and coastlines and action to protect coastal communities, protect the ocean, and secure clean water for all.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The Senate today introduced a bipartisan Farm Bill. In stark contrast to the version introduced in the House, the Senate version eschews toxic, anti-environmental provisions in favor of widely-supported measures focused on food and farm policy.
The verdict is in and the only person who had a worse week in Washington than noted Las Vegas Golden Knights fan Ryan Zinke was Scott Pruitt. A growing pile of new scandals has developed this week in the wake of new documents released as a result of the Sierra Club’s FOIA litigation. The documents exposed Pruitt’s corruption for being even more disgraceful and, dare we say it, pathetic than was previously imagined. Honestly, folks, if you said we’d all be talking about unethical and potentially illegal behavior involving used mattresses, fancy hand lotion, and a Chick-fil-a franchise, we figured it’d be because Florida Man was on the loose again -- not because Trump’s EPA Administrator wants to live in luxury on the taxpayer’s dime.
Washington, DC-- Yesterday, the Hill reported that Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk revealed that he was being forced out of his post by the Trump administration and that he will be replaced by August. Several reports stated that Wenk is unhappy with the forced transfer to Washington, D.C.
E&E News reported yesterday that last year, coal executive Bob Murray presented Trump administration officials with six draft executive orders focused on ending clean air and water protections for dangerous coal pollution. The orders took aim at public health protections, several of which have since been targeted for elimination, significant roll-backs, or delay by federal agencies.
As world leaders from the nation’s seven largest economies convene in Quebec today at the G-7 summit, the lead up to the annual event has been anything but business as usual. In recent days, Trump has repeatedly voiced his unwillingness to attend the summit, and early this morning it was reported that Trump will depart the summit on Saturday morning, before attending the scheduled sessions on gender equality and women’s empowerment, climate change and clean energy, and oceans
BOSTON, MA -- Hundreds of Boston residents and environmental leaders gathered outside the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting this morning to urge Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to take more aggressive action on climate change.