Climate Change No Longer a Hoax in the House of Representatives as New Majority...
Change in power likely means enhanced oversight, deeper commitment to environmental protection
Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice, released the following statement in response to the announcement that the Democratic Party will take control of the...
Scott Pruitt Shows No Remorse in Compromising Safety of American Workers, Families
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, The Hill reported that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt plans to repeal key parts of the Chemical Safety Rule meant to inform the public of chemical hazards before disasters happen. The...
Ahead of Deadlines, Americans Urge the Trump Administration to Keep Oil and Gas Pollution...
Almost half a million Americans registered overwhelming opposition, as public comment periods closed late yesterday on two Trump administration proposals to tear down clean air and taxpayer protection measures.
Under a Bureau of Land Management...
Statement by The Nature Conservancy Concerning the Trump Administration’s Decision on Automobile Emission Standards
The Nature Conservancy opposes the decision by the Trump Administration to roll back greenhouse gas emission standards for new light duty vehicles, as it undermines the basic safeguards that protect our air, land and...
Lawsuit challenges federal government’s secretive elephant trophy-import
Administration cuts public out of permit process, meets with trophy hunters
Four conservation and animal protection groups today sued the Trump administration over its secretive new policy of approving elephant and lion trophy imports behind...
President Trump’s Illegal Gutting of National Monuments Will Be Fought by Our Lawyers and...
Trump's action is unprecedented in American history
Salt Lake City, UT —Today President Trump flew to Utah and issued a proclamation gutting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Southern Utah in violation of...
CEC Secretariat Launches Independent Study on the Environmental Hazards of Transborder Lead Battery Recycling
The Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has begun an independent examination into the environmental and public health issues associated with the transboundary movement of spent lead-acid batteries across North America. This...
U.S. Chamber Launches Distortion Campaign on Keystone XL Pipeline
Washington (January 12, 2012) – The following is a statement by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, in response to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s disinformation campaign on the Keystone XL...
Gas Industry Lawsuits Undermine Americans‘ Right to Know about Dangerous Pollution
(Washington, D.C. – February 1, 2011) Lawsuits filed by the oil and gas industry would undermine the American public’s right to know about harmful pollution in our air, according to Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
Industry...