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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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Biden EPA Delays Trump-Era Lead and Copper Rule Again

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today pushed back the effective date for implementation of the Trump Administration’s federal drinking water regulation, the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions, until December 2021. The much-ballyhooed Trump-era Rule, which left millions of people exposed…

EPA to Consider Strengthening Health Protections for Soot Pollution

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced it will reconsider a December 2020 Trump administration refusal to strengthen National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for soot, noting that the current standards may not protect public health and welfare, as required under…

Court Maintains Ban on Chemicals in Toys for Now

Press ReleaseUnited States
A federal appeals court has left in place the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) ban on harmful phthalate chemicals from plastic used in children’s toys and childcare articles. The court rejected most of the arguments made by the chemical industry…

Coalition Calls on DOE to Reconsider Nuclear Waste Rule

Press ReleaseWest
The Yakama Nation, state of Washington and environmental groups joined together in an unprecedented request to the Department of Energy today that it rescind a harmful Trump-era regulation that could allow millions of gallons of radioactive waste to be abandoned…

Groups Sue EPA Over Refusal to Strengthen Toxic Ozone Standards

Press ReleaseUnited States
NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council), together with thirteen health and environmental groups, half of them represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency today over air pollution standards. In a lawsuit in federal appeals court, the groups challenged the…

NRDC Sues to Block Trump’s Air Pollution Loophole

Press ReleaseUnited States
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and partners late Friday sued the Environmental Protection Agency to block a Trump-era policy allowing industrial facilities to significantly increase air pollution that endangers public health, including in communities of color overburdened by exposure to…

NRDC Sues EPA For Failing to Protect Public from Deadly Soot

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) today sued the Trump Environmental Protection Agency to block a final rule that left in place the current unprotective federal limits on soot pollution and leaves thousands of people vulnerable to air pollution and breathing…

NRDC Sues EPA to Block Rule Exposing Public to More Toxic Pollution

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) sued the Environmental Protection Agency Friday to block the agency’s rollback of the longstanding health protective policy known as “once in, always in.” The rollback would allow some of the country’s biggest polluters to produce…

EPA’s Gift to Polluters will Fuel Climate Crisis and Harm Health

Press ReleaseUnited States
In the last days of the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue a rule today seeking to exempt some of the nation’s biggest polluters—including producers of oil and gas, chemicals, cement, steel and aluminum—from future Clean…

EPA Finalizes Rule That Would Censor Science

Press ReleaseUnited States
Bowing to the whims of coal barons, the nuclear industry, and chemical companies, the Trump administration is announcing a final rule today that would severely restrict the use of peer-reviewed science in setting pollution and toxic chemical limits.

EPA Retains Weak Smog Rule, Leaving Millions with Unsafe Air

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a rule keeping the current limits on smog in place, foregoing the opportunity to better protect the public, reduce asthma attacks and save thousands of lives with a stronger standard.