WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court ruled to reject a challenge to a lower court ruling that found Virginia Republicans racially gerrymandered 11 districts across the state back in 2011. With today’s decision, African American voters in the affected districts will be able to vote under a constitutionally-legal map for the first time in eight years.
Seattle, WA-- This weekend, advocates across Washington gathered in several places to protest the Miami Seaquarium’s capture of the orca Tokitae, who is native to the Salish Sea and sacred to the Lummi Nation. The Lummi finalized their Totem Pole Journey with stops across the state-- a 23-day trip from Miami to Seattle to raise awareness about Tokitae’s situation. Tokitae is the only Salish orca who survived a cruel and massive capture of 40 whales in these waters years ago for sea circuses and parks.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, in an interview with ABC, Donald Trump said he may not alert the FBI if foreign governments offered damaging information against 2020 Presidential opponents during the upcoming election. Trump claimed that he’s never called the FBI despite working extensively with the FBI in the 1980s and 90s. Trump then doubled down on his statement on Twitter. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report found at least 140 contacts between Trump and his associates and Russian nationals, WikiLeaks, and their intermediaries, during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition.
New Orleans, La. - Today, the Fifth Circuit Court to hear oral argument from the Sierra Club and the National Parks Conservation Association on whether the Clean Air Act’s regional haze provisions require two of Louisiana's largest sources of air pollution to reduce visibility and air pollution.
Background- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Sierra Club, and Southern Border Communities Coalition won a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration from using military funds to build 50-55 miles of new border wall in Arizona and New Mexico.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, BP released a report showing global carbon emissions increasing 2 percent over the last year, with U.S. energy consumption increasing 3.5 percent. Donald Trump and EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler have consistently touted U.S. emissions falling.
On Monday, the St. Louis Park Public School Board passed a Climate Leadership Resolution establishing the goal of transitioning the school district to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 while also achieving 100 percent clean energy.
Salt Lake City, UT-- Earlier today, opponents of the Trump administration’s plan to auction off nearly 10,000 acres of public land for oil and gas drilling near the Great Salt Lake protested the lease sale outside of Gov. Gary Herbert’s office.
BILLINGS, Mont. – Today, Talen Energy announced that the oldest coal-burning units at the Colstrip coal plant in Colstrip, Montana will retire by the end of the year, two and a half years earlier than required under an earlier legal settlement. Units 1 and 2 – which were built in the 1970s – have faced serious problems remaining competitive as energy markets shift dramatically.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Ten environmental groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge rollbacks of the 2016 Well Control and Blowout Preventer Rule, a safety regulation meant to prevent another blowout like what happened during the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.