Tag: EPA
15 state AGs sue EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for not enforcing...
“Over and over again, the Trump administration has put polluters before the health and safety of New Yorkers.”
Pruitt, auto industry, and climate deniers retreat behind closed doors to...
The rules they are helping to write will set the industry back, emit more greenhouse gases, and cost American drivers more at the gas pump.
50+ mayors vow to ‘vigorously resist’ EPA’s Fuel Efficiency rollback
"We strongly urge the auto industry to join us, and to use its influence with the Administration to ensure that these standards remain in place."
Auto Alliance pushed climate denial to get Trump admin to abandon...
The Trump administration has announced its intention to weaken standards, relying on misinformation provided by the Auto Alliance and its members.
Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since...
Across agency websites, documents have disappeared, web pages have vanished and language has shifted in ways that appear to reflect the policies of the new administration.
Federal judge rules Pruitt ‘knowingly’ violated Ozone Standards law
"This is a victory for everyone who breathes, and is clear evidence that Scott Pruitt's frequent attempts to delay and obstruct federal clean air safeguards is against the law."
The fight to save the EPA
With environmental regulations under attack and EPA budgets being slashed, can the destruction of the agency be prevented?
‘Keep it in the ground’ approach to fossil fuels on US...
An important part of this finding seems like common sense – limiting fossil fuel production would lead to reduced consumption.
For the EPA, ‘reform’ means giving industry what it wants
A small-town explosion shows what's at stake in the deregulatory debate.
Coal lobbyist hosted fundraisers for senators evaluating his nomination for top...
Andrew Wheeler raised funds for Republican senators on the committee that makes the preliminary decision on confirming appointments to the agency.
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Spain blocks US war operations in Iran and calls conflict “profoundly illegal”
Madrid closes airspace and denies military base access, widening tensions with Washington as legal experts cite violations of the UN charter
Trump, complicity in genocide, started a terrible war; he must be removed NOW.
When will this march into Trump authoritarianism be stopped by some powerful, fearless leader?
Nuke power equals Trump profits
Amidst his escalating attacks on renewable energy and atomic safety, the Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all.
Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel giants as global...
Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.
How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.