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Environmental Groups File Suit Against CA’s Weakened Plastic Pollution Regulations

Press ReleaseSan Francisco
Environmental groups challenged in court CalRecycle’s recently finalized regulations for the state’s landmark plastic packaging law, which were weakened and create giant loopholes that undermine the law’s recycling and plastic reduction goals.

North Carolina Data Center Reforms Tied to More Fossil Fuels

Press ReleaseNorth Carolina
The North Carolina House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday putting guardrails on data center development, while also doubling down on fossil fuel production.
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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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Biden Takes Decisive Action on Justice, Paris Agreement and Keystone XL

Press ReleaseUnited States
Hours before taking office, Joe Biden launched his presidency today with a sweeping call to action on climate change and racial justice,  issuing executive orders to rejoin the 2015 Paris climate agreement and reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Cuomo Unveils Slate of 2021 Clean Energy and Environmental Priorities

Press ReleaseNew York
In his 2021 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced a slate of key climate and clean energy priorities. These include a four-point plan to build large scale renewables Upstate, jumpstart New York manufacturing, expand transmission, and…

Congress Set to Pass Omnibus Bill With Key Energy Provisions

Press ReleaseUnited States
Congress is poised to pass an omnibus spending and pandemic relief package today that will have broad impact on people and the economy. The bill includes an agreement to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons and provide new government support…

New York State Announces Historic Pension Fund Divestment

Press ReleaseNew York
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced that the $225 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund will divest from the riskiest oil and gas companies by 2025 and decarbonize by 2040

NRDC Report Determines LNG Exports Are a Climate Disaster

Press ReleaseUnited States, International
The export of U.S. liquefied natural gas poses an unacceptable risk to the climate, according to a landmark analysis that looks at the life-cycle emissions of producing, processing, shipping and burning the gas.

Trump Prioritizes Dirty Mining Under False Pretext

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Trump administration issued an executive order to fast-track dirty mining projects – projects that pose enormous risks to critical water resources, pristine public lands, and communities around our nation. While it offered the pretext of national security to justify…

Climate Benefits from GE Dropping New Coal Plant Projects

Press ReleaseUnited States
General Electric, one of the world's largest builders of coal-fired power plants, announced today that it will stop building new coal plants, a course of action long recommended by NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council), other groups and investors as…

NAFTA Study Confirms Canadian Tar Sands Pollution; Should Trigger Enforcement

Press ReleaseCanada
A new review by the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) concluded in an assessment released this week cites “scientifically valid evidence” that toxic pollution from tailing ponds operated by tar sands oil operations are…

Trump Opens Arctic Refuge to Polluters

Press ReleaseArctic
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today is expected to formally open the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas leasing. The agency’s Record of Decision will pave the way for fossil fuel leasing to begin in the 1.5 million-acre Coastal Plain in…

Ohio Needs a New Energy Vision

Press ReleaseOhio
In response to an alleged bribery scandal, Governor Mike DeWine has joined a chorus of bi-partisan Ohio legislators in calling for the repeal of the controversial House Bill 6 that bails out the state’s nuclear fleet, funnels money to a pair…

EPA Gives Uranium Miners Free Pass to Pollute

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency signed away its authority to regulate water pollution from uranium mining today, providing a gift to the destructive and unregulated industry at the cost of water quality across the Mountain West.

Chairman Metcalfe Stages (Another) Sham Hearing on RGGI

Press ReleasePennsylvania
The Pennsylvania House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee today held a second hearing to receive testimony from critics of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

Court Rejects Trump Administration Effort to Roll Back Methane Rule

Press ReleaseUnited States
In a major victory in the fight to curb the oil and gas industry’s methane emissions, a federal court in California has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to rescind the 2016 Methane Waste Prevention Rule, calling the agency action “backwards,”…