Today, Scott Pruitt’s former Deputy EPA Administrator and current Acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler addressed Washington, DC EPA employees for the first time. Among his first actions was to announce that Henry Darwin would take his old job as acting EPA Deputy Administrator. When hired by Pruitt, Darwin demanded a high-paying job for his wife at the EPA that she received.
Leaders from the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, and Earthjustice will discuss what Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will mean for the environment and why our organizations are engaging on this issue.
Washington, DC -- Today, the Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, and Environmental Defense Fund filed a request to EPA to withdraw its decision to cease enforcing the glider truck requirements.
Denver, CO-- According to AP, today, in response to mounting public pressure against the sellout of public lands for dirty fuels, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that the agency will defer the lease sale near Great Sand Dunes National Park and in the Huerfano River Valley Community until it consults further with the Navajo Nation.
WASHINGTON DC-- District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh, the Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Environment, introduced a comprehensive climate protection and clean energy package today.
BOSTON-- The Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change hosted a briefing today to discuss the findings of The Applied Economics Clinic and Sustainable Energy Advantage report which focuses on the impacts of the major electric sector provisions in the 2018 Act to Promote a Clean Energy Future bill which passed the Massachusetts Senate unanimously last month.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump announced he plans to nominate Brett Kavanaugh to Justice Anthony Kennedy’s recently vacated seat on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh is currently a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Kavanaugh was added to Trump’s short list of nominees by extremist right-wing organizations who selected candidates who will pave the way for attacks on the environment, dismantling worker protections, gutting Roe v. Wade, and criminalizing women.
CONCORD, N.H. -- On Monday, July 9, 2018, the City Council of Concord, New Hampshire voted to establish a goal of transitioning the city to 100 percent clean and renewable energy. The state capital becomes the largest city in New Hampshire to make this commitment.
Only one day in, acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler, a coal lobbyist, is already accumulating his share of scandal and controversy as he pursues Scott Pruitt’s corrupt agenda of eliminating safeguards that protect Americans from air and water pollution.
Today, President Donald Trump tweeted that he accepted scandal plagued EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s resignation.