WASHINGTON, D.C. -- E&E broke news today that Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt tomorrow will announce the agency is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management from its current base in the nation’s capital to Grand Junction, Colorado. The Department has failed to provide details of restructuring plans, leaving it unclear how this move fits into a larger scheme.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Lawyers for massive corporate polluters are bragging in the New York Times that a new policy about to be put forward by former coal lobbyist and current EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler will enable them to have fewer hurdles when seeking permission to pollute communities across the country but cutting those communities out of the process.
Almost two million Americans stated their opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to strip endangered species protections from gray wolves in a comment period that closed today. This is one of the largest numbers of comments ever submitted on a federal decision involving endangered species and reflects broad dissatisfaction with the Trump administration’s politically driven move to turn wolf management over to state agencies across most of the lower 48 states.
La administración Trump pidió hoy a la Corte Suprema de Justicia anular una decisión de una corte federal que bloquea permanentemente la construcción de su muro fronterizo usando fondos militares no autorizados por el Congreso.
Washington, DC-- Today, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift a district court order permanently blocking the administration from building Trump’s border wall using military funds unauthorized by Congress.
Boston, M.A.-- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Martin Suuberg issued a rubber stamp approval of the air quality permit today for the highly-contested Weymouth compressor station. The Commissioner’s decision to ignore existing air quality data and to allow further pollution in the Fore River Basin will cause direct harm to the community if the project moves forward.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- Earlier today an administrative law judge (ALJ) filed a recommendation as part of OG&E’s ongoing rate case that misguidedly supports the utility’s wasteful actions. Specifically, the ALJ recommends finding that OG&E’s so-called investment of half a billion dollars on the aging and polluting Sooner coal plant was “prudent, and used and useful,” and that those costs—hundreds of millions of dollars—should be passed onto Oklahoma ratepayers.
Hoy, 12 de julio, se celebrarán vigilias de Luces para la Libertad en las que participarán miles de personas en todo el mundo, incluyendo los centros de detención en Estados Unidos, en patios y hogares, para protestar contra las inhumanas condiciones que sufren los inmigrantes detenidos.
Washington, DC-- On Friday July 12th, 2019, Lights for Liberty vigils will bring thousands of people to locations worldwide as well as to detention centers across the country, into the streets and into their own front yards, to protest the inhumane conditions faced by migrants. For information on the events across the country and sponsors, see the Lights for Liberty page.
Washington, DC-- Moments ago, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by 220 by 197 which includes strong initial efforts to address the contamination caused by the Department of Defense’s use of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-- harming the drinking water of millions of Americans.