December 7, 2017
Downingtown, Pennsylvania on Tuesday became the 52nd municipality in the country to commit to transition to 100 percent clean and renewable energy.
Press Releases
December 6, 2017
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection again waived its opportunity to review the water quality impacts of a fracked gas pipeline, this time with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
December 6, 2017
Washington, DC -- Today, Politico reported that the Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General will establish a “factual record” regarding Scott Pruitt’s meeting with the National Mining Association, investigating whether he violated anti-lobbying laws.
December 5, 2017
Today, Goleta, California became the 51st city in the country to commit to transition to 100 percent clean and renewable energy.
December 5, 2017
On Tuesday evening, the Buncombe County Commission voted to commit to transition to 100 percent clean and renewable energy for all municipal operations by 2030 and countywide by 2042.
December 5, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Interior Secretary Zinke finally released full recommendations for the future of the country’s national monuments. The recommendations follow a sham review by Secretary Zinke and call for reductions to Gold Butte and Cascade-Siskiyou National Monuments, while recommending a rollback of protections for six of other monuments, opening them to destructive resource extraction.
December 5, 2017
Northern California, Southern Oregon-- Today, Secretary of the Interior Zinke released recommendations to drastically cut the bo
December 5, 2017
Las Vegas, NV-- Today, Sec. of the Interior Zinke unveiled his appalling National Monuments recommendation for Gold Butte National Monument.
December 5, 2017
Today, the American Petroleum Institute (API) is touting its new, voluntary program for its members to cut methane emissions from oil and gas facilities. Meanwhile, API is a driving force behind the Trump administration’s push to roll back common sense regulations that would limit methane pollution and other danger emissions from new oil and gas facilities and those on public lands.
December 5, 2017
Washington, DC- The House has voted to go to conference on the disastrous tax scheme advanced by Senate Republicans. Meanwhile, the Senate’s decision to include opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling in this bill has caused backlash by some Republicans in the House. In their haste to pass any sort of legislation this session, Senate Republican Leadership made a series of promises to Senators like Flake and Collins that they may very well break. The rushed process also resulted in serious tax policy errors that are only now being discovered, including, bizarrely, scrambling their core goal of slashing corporate taxes.