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Lawsuit Filed Against Minnesota Department of Agriculture Over Failure to Regulate Toxic Neonic Pesticide Coatings on Crop Seeds 

August 4, 2025 Press ReleaseMinnesota

Neonic-treated seeds are leading to bee deaths and harmful water contamination.

Large-Scale Project of Pop-Up Gear Proves Successful for California Dungeness Crab Fishery and Whales

August 1, 2025 Press ReleaseSan Francisco

Full-scale testing of pop-up fishing gear has concluded in California’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery and the results show that the technology is highly reliable, affordable, and safe for whales and other marine life.

Westerman Bill Would Gut Environmental Review, Silence Communities, and Empower Polluters

July 25, 2025 ReactionUnited States, Washington, D.C.

House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman introduced legislation that would deliver the most sweeping rollback of the National Environmental Policy Act since the law was enacted more than 50 years ago.

New DOI Policy Could "Snuff Out Renewable Energy" on Public Lands

July 17, 2025 Press ReleaseUnited States, Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Department of the Interior put in place new policies that could effectively ban renewable energy development on public lands.

Budget Trailer Bills Strip CEQA Protections for Ecosystems and Communities

July 15, 2025 BackgrounderCalifornia

Legislators need to clean up SB 131 language.

Neonic Pesticides Contaminate Colorado Water

July 15, 2025 BackgrounderColoradoAllison Johnson

Pretreated seeds pollute groundwater and streams while threatening wildlife and bees.

Legal Groups Caution Japan's Largest Bank Over Controversial LNG Project that Threatens World Heritage Site

July 8, 2025 Press ReleaseMexico, Japan

ClientEarth USA and NRDC are cautioning MUFG that its support for a major fossil gas export project in the sensitive ecological region could expose the bank to serious legal, financial, and reputational risks.

California Home Hardening Investments Protect Property and Boost Economy

July 8, 2025 Press ReleaseCalifornia

A new report from Earth Economics demonstrates the economic case for increasing wildfire resiliency for homes.

Trump Energy Tax Signed into Law

July 4, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

President Trump signed the deeply unpopular tax and spend budget reconciliation legislation.

Congress Passes Historically Ruinous Tax Bill

July 3, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

In the final legislative step, the House passed a massive tax package that will cut taxes for the wealthiest while gutting incentives for clean energy and electric vehicles and establishing the largest auction in U.S. history of public lands and…

Trump Administration Launches Sweeping Attack on Environmental Review, Silencing Communities and Ignoring Climate Impacts

July 2, 2025 Press ReleaseUnited States, Washington, D.C.

In a sweeping and coordinated move, the Trump administration has begun rolling out a series of new regulations across multiple federal agencies that severely weaken the National Environmental Policy Act.

Senate Passes Measure that Will Hike Electricity Bills and Hand Public Lands to Oil Drillers

July 1, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

The massive legislative package would gut tax incentives for clean energy and electric vehicles and auction off millions of acres of public lands to oil drillers and other extractive industries.

New Senate Budget Reconciliation Language Is a “Fossil Fuels Fever Dream Come to Life”

June 28, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

The new language would not only end incentives for renewable energy but also sets punitive taxes on wind and solar generation. The bill also triggers the largest sale of public lands in American history.

California’s Largest Proposed Wood Pellet Project Defeated

June 25, 2025 Press ReleaseCalifornia

Due to public pressure, Golden State Natural Resources’ biomass project shelved.

Senate Bill Is a Public Lands and Oceans Fire Sale

June 25, 2025 BackgrounderUnited StatesJosh Axelrod

The Senate proposal uses vast public land sales as a Trojan horse to hide widespread evisceration of decades of public lands and oceans policy.

House Committee Advances Bill that Guts Clean Water Act

June 25, 2025 ReactionUnited States, Washington, D.C.

The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee approved a sweeping bill that would dismantle core protections under the Clean Water Act.

Administration Announces Roadless Rule Rollback, Setting Stage to Open 58 Million Acres to Logging

June 23, 2025 ReactionUnited States, Alaska

The USDA announced it would rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, a provision that generally prohibits commercial logging and road construction on 58.5 million acres across the National Forest System.

Senate Should Say “No” to Higher Electricity Bills, Lost Jobs, and Attacks on Public Lands

June 18, 2025 Ed Board MemoUnited StatesAlexandra Adams

This legislation is among the most unpopular bills in history, and there's still time for the Senate to take a different path.

Neonic Pesticides Contaminate Water Across Michigan

June 16, 2025 Press ReleaseMichigan

New report highlights likely widespread ecological degradation driven by neonic water pollution.

Senate Committee Pushes Extreme Land Sell-off in Reconciliation

June 12, 2025 Press ReleaseUnited States

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee released legislative text for a sweeping budget bill that would mandate public land sales and open vast swaths of public lands and oceans to fossil fuel and industrial development.