Press Releases

January 6, 2021

Conservation groups finalized an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management today that blocks drilling on more than 45,000 acres of oil and gas leases until officials revise land-management plans governing approximately 2 million acres of public lands in western Colorado.

5 de enero de 2021

En medio de la primera extinción masiva causada por la actividad humana en la que más de 1 millón de especies están en peligro de desaparecer para siempre, la administración Trump ha finalizado un regulación que desmantela protecciones cruciales de la Ley del Tratado de Aves Migratorias.

January 5, 2021

In the midst of the first human-driven mass extinction with over 1 million species at risk of disappearing forever, the Trump administration has finalized a rule stripping critical protections of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. This reckless move is the latest in a slew of efforts by the Trump administration to gut vital safeguards for wildlife.

January 5, 2021

DEQ Refused To Evaluate Full Scope Of Project And Admits Failure To Meaningfully Review Public Comments

January 4, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Democratic House leaders, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Democratic Taskforce Chair Representative John Sarbanes (D-MD), re-introduced H.R. 1, the For the People Act. This landmark democracy reform package, first introduced in January 2019, is designed to create nationwide automatic and same day voter registration, put an end to partisan gerrymandering, strengthen ethics laws to curb the undue influence of corporate polluters, and fix our broken campaign finance system, among other initiatives.

January 4, 2021

On the last day of 2020, the Office of Budget and Management approved an extreme anti-science rule first proposed by disgraced former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, which was designed to prevent peer-reviewed medical studies from being included in future rulemakings to protect public health.

January 4, 2021

Dominion Energy South Carolina must do a comprehensive coal fleet retirement analysis and assess replacement of the plants, and it must be completed before the utility makes decisions about spending customers’ money to retrofit the Williams and Wateree plants to comply with federal rules meant to protect waterways from mercury, arsenic, and other pollutants from coal plant wastewater.

January 4, 2021

Boston, MA -- Almost a full year after the Massachusetts Senate passed their climate bill (S.2500) and more than five months after the proposed rewrite passed the House (H.4912), both chambers have finally released a final compromise version of the climate Roadmap Bill: S.2995.

December 28, 2020

WASHINGTON DC- Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finalize standards for greenhouse gas emissions from new aircraft that take effect in 2028. The rule copies international standards from 2016 that set a greenhouse gas emissions floor for aircraft flying international routes at levels a decade behind what aircraft could already do in 2016.

Aviation is among the fastest growing sources of climate pollution, yet EPA’s final rule will have no impact at all on greenhouse gas emissions. 

December 23, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After weeks of threatening to block the major military spending bill, President Trump vetoed the 2020 National Defense Authoritzation Act. The $740 billion bill is the major vehicle for funding the U.S. military and passed both the House of Representatives and Senate with veto-proof majorities. The 2020 bill includes a provision that would redesignate military installations currently named after prominent Confederate military and political leaders.