Tag: environmental protections

A rarely convened federal panel voted unanimously to allow oil and gas operations to bypass key wildlife safeguards, drawing legal challenges and warnings about the use of national security claims to weaken environmental law.

"In the midst of a global extinction crisis, the court's decision to vacate the rules will help ensure that imperiled species receive the protections they desperately need," said one advocate.

“President Biden campaigned on bold and ambitious goals to tackle the climate crisis and environmental injustice. Supporting the push to expand gas exports and lock in decades of fossil fuel production is directly in conflict with these goals.” 

Here is proof that the EPA's environmental laws aren't working.

The move could make it harder for landowners to sue companies that pollute water tables.

“What is best for big business and Washington lobbyists is rarely what is best for local communities.”

"Today more than ever we need to protect people and the planet, not polluters and their profits.

NEPA is one of the biggest federal policies ever enacted to protect our environment. But Trump is out to gut it — here's why.

The White House’s 2021 federal budget proposal eliminates several important programs and slashes funding for others—like the Endangered Species Act.

“Mr. Trump, you cannot run a government by rejecting science.”