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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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During Pandemic, EPA Aims to Undermine Clean Air Benefits

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a disingenuous way to calculate the costs and benefits of regulations under the Clean Air Act, aiming to limit EPA's future ability to adopt clean air health safeguards.

EPA Leaves Unsafe Health Standard for Soot Emissions in Place

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Trump Environmental Protection Agency today issued a final rule for soot pollution that leaves federal limits untouched, passing on the opportunity to save thousands of lives from pollution that harms the lungs and makes it harder to survive Covid-19.

EPA Rollback Boosts Toxic Air Pollution and Health Risks Including Cancer

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing an environmental rollback that ends enforcement of a longstanding “once in, always in” toxic air pollution policy, which required industrial facilities to implement major pollution control measures as long as the plant is in…

Advocates Demand Regulation of Toxic Neonic-Treated Seeds

Press ReleaseCalifornia
A group of health and environmental organizations filed a legal petition today, calling upon the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to regulate the planting of crop seeds coated with neurotoxic neonicotinoid insecticides (neonics) and close a loophole that allows the…

EPA’s Policy of Ignoring Pollution Comes to an End

Press ReleaseUnited States
Today marks the end of an Environmental Protection Agency non-enforcement policy that gave industries permission to stop monitoring and reporting pollution for reasons related to COVID-19—with no requirement to notify EPA or the public. This unnecessary policy put millions of…

New York Set to Adopt Leading PFAS Protections

Press ReleaseNew York
The New York State Department of Health today affirmed that the state is set to adopt drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS – two man-made chemicals linked to cancer and other health issues.

New York State Legislature Bans Hazardous Waste

Press ReleaseNew York
After years of deadlock, the New York State legislature today passed legislation that builds on the historic 2014 fracking ban, which was cemented into law earlier this year. The bill closes a longstanding loophole that exempted dangerous oil and gas…

NRDC, Partners Sue EPA Over Toxic Chemical Risks

Press ReleaseUnited States
NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) together with partners, today asked a federal court to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s woefully inadequate process for evaluating risks of the toxic chemical methylene chloride. A solvent used in paint strippers and other…

Public Deserves Stronger Limits on Ozone Pollution

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it would not strengthen the federal limit on ozone air pollution, bypassing an opportunity to better protect the public during a pandemic particularly dangerous for people with respiratory illnesses.

During Pandemic EPA Aims to Hamstring Clean Air Protections

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed ​a new, dishonest way to calculate the costs and benefits of regulations under the Clean Air Act, in a maneuver designed to reduce EPA's ability to adopt protective clean air safeguards.