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Trump Administration Auction is a Bust, Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain for Oil Drilling Receives Few Bids

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The Bureau of Land Management announced today the results for an oil and gas lease sale in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, offering for bids 58 tracts across nearly 700,000 acres.

Governor Pritzker Pauses Data Center Tax Incentives, Outlines Path Forward for Consumer and Climate Protections [NRDC Response] 

ReactionIllinois
Governor Pritzker paused data center tax incentives today and laid out a policy framework to help Illinois address the impact of data centers on the environment and communities, in the wake of inaction from the Illinois General Assembly.
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500 and Counting: Tracking an Unprecedented Assault on Public Health, the Environment, and Good Governance

Ed Board MemoUnited StatesAlexandra Adams
The Trump administration has taken roughly one harmful action every day since President Trump returned to office.

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Court Orders EPA to Finalize Ban on Pesticide Toxic to Kids

Press ReleaseUnited States
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must finalize its proposed ban on chlorpyrifos—a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children—from use on produce sold in the U.S. within 60 days, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today.

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Trophy Hunting Council

Press ReleaseUnited States, International
Conservation and animal protection groups sued the Trump administration today for illegally establishing the “International Wildlife Conservation Council,” an advisory panel stacked with people who have personal or financial interests in killing or importing rare or endangered animals from overseas.

Court Orders Seafood Import Ban to Save Mexico’s Vaquita Porpoise

Press ReleaseMexico
Responding to a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Court of International Trade today ordered the Trump administration to ban seafood imports from Mexico caught with gillnets that kill the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. As few as 15 vaquita…

Wheeler Suspends Protections from Toxic Coal Ash

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency said today that it is delaying important safeguards from the toxic waste festering in about 2,000 dangerous coal ash ponds. EPA is eliminating testing requirements and allowing industry to continue operating storage pits that can leak…

The Endangered Species Act Under Attack in Congress

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Congressional Western Caucus today announced a package of nine bills to gut the Endangered Species Act, the most effective law for protecting wildlife from extinction.

Snyder Signs Michigan’s “Polluter Panels” Into Law

Press ReleaseMichigan
Michigan’s Governor Snyder has signed a pair of bills that will allow polluters to sit on panels with the power to override policy and pollution permitting decisions made by the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ).

NRDC: Scott Pruitt Attacks Clean Water Yet Again  

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed, once again, to repeal the Clean Water Rule, which provides important protections for wetlands and streams that feed the drinking water supplies of 117 million Americans.  

Pruitt Moves to End Protections from Waste Dumping

Press ReleaseUnited States
In his latest attempt to save his job, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced efforts today to limit EPA’s ability to stop highly destructive activities such as mountaintop-removal coal mining from destroying streams, estuaries or other rich water bodies.