WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hours after the Trump administration announced a rollback of clean car standards, activists showed up on the Trump administration’s doorstep with a powerful visual representation of what’s at stake: cardboard cutouts of children.
Amid the growing chorus of condemnation for drilling in the Arctic region and specifically in the Arctic Refuge, Wells Fargo has been silent.
Washington, DC -- Today, NHTSA Deputy Administrator Heidi King and Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler unveiled their new proposed fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for passenger cars and light-duty trucks, which would roll back the clean car standards for these vehicles put in place under the Obama administration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced today that he would not revise or repeal the 2015 smog pollution standard that helps protect vulnerable communities with serious health conditions from dirty air, but serious threats to the standard remain.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Maria Cantwell today introduced the Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2018. The Act would permanently codify the Roadless Rule, which safeguards 58.5 million acres of pristine National Forest System lands across 39 states from logging and road building. Despite the Roadless Rule’s many successes and the millions of taxpayer dollars it saves, there have been multiple Congressional attempts to strip Roadless Rule protections from millions of acres of public lands.
The Senate has passed a 3-Bill Minibus package that includes the FY19 Interior-Environment appropriations bill. Unlike the bill in the House of Representatives, in which House Republican leadership included new anti-environmental poison pill policy riders alongside budget cuts, the Senate bill emerged in a much stronger and healthier position. Senators have united to fund protections for our children’s health and the great American outdoors, rejecting the severe cuts and poison policy riders Trump and House Republican leadership keeps pushing for.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, at his hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler confirmed that he will continue Donald Trump and former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s attacks on clean air, clean water, and climate action. Wheeler did not mention any new safeguards or actions that will further reduce air or water pollution, but he did mention several rollbacks that will increase pollution. Wheeler has already rolled back protections from coal ash.
Today, a group of clean air and water advocates announced they would monitor construction of the fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) for violations of commonsense environmental protections required by state and federal permits.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, EPA Air Chief Bill Wehrum told reporters that it is “totally wrong” to think that limits on air pollution should always be a strict as possible.
Tomorrow, coal lobbyist, Scott Pruitt deputy, and current Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler will face the Senate Environment and Public Works committee as new questions swirl about his relationships with corporate polluters and whether he can fulfill the opaque promises of transparency he’s making to the media. Yet, after just a short month in his interim role it's so far, not so good for Wheeler. Reality is failing to match the rhetoric he is peddling to EPA staff, to the Senate, to the media, and to the American public.