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EPA Plan Allows Data Centers and other Polluters Build First, Ask Permission Later

May 18, 2026 ReactionWashington, D.C.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed allowing data centers, power plants, and other industrial polluters to complete major  construction on new facilities before obtaining the federal air permits long required under the Clean Air Act.

Interior Department Plans to Recombine Offshore Agencies Split After Deepwater Horizon Disaster

April 3, 2026 ReactionWashington, D.C.

Interior Department Plans to Recombine Offshore Agencies Split After Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Zeldin’s Devastating Record May Get Him a Promotion

April 2, 2026 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

Zeldin’s EPA acted unlawfully to cut protections for clean air and water and abdicate the legal responsibility to tackle climate pollution.

Trump Administration is Pursuing Exempting Gulf Oil and Gas Program from Endangered Species Protections

March 16, 2026 Press ReleaseUnited States, Washington, D.C.

The Trump administration announced today it will convene the Endangered Species Committee, or so-called “God Squad,” a rarely used committee that has the power to condemn an endangered species to extinction, in an attempt to permanently exempt the federal Gulf…

NOAA Proposal to Weaken Vessel Speed Regulation Would Be Catastrophic to North Atlantic Right Whales

March 3, 2026 Press ReleaseUnited States, Washington, D.C.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that it is considering “deregulatory action” to undo federal vessel-speed protections that protect endangered North Atlantic right whales

NRDC investor briefing warns Sempra’s Vista Pacífico LNG project faces high financial and reputational risk

February 26, 2026 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.

NRDC investor briefing warns Sempra’s Vista Pacífico LNG project faces high financial and reputational risk

EPA Said to Ignore Benefit of Saving Lives

January 12, 2026 ReactionWashington, D.C.

The Environmental Protection Agency is going to stop considering the economic benefits of reducing asthma, heart disease and premature deaths as it repeals limits on air pollutants like mercury, soot and smog, according to published reports.

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.

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…

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.

House Passes Harmful Tax Measure

May 22, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

The House of Representatives passed a massive legislative package delivering tax cuts for billionaires.

House Passes New Attack on Clean Air Protections

May 22, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

The House of Representatives has passed Senate Joint Resolution 31, which would allow more cancer-causing hazardous air pollution from more than 1,800 industrial facilities and evasion from the EPA's longstanding clean air safeguards.

4 Reasons the Reconciliation Bill Is a Disaster for Our Communities and Economy

May 14, 2025 Ed Board MemoUnited States, Washington, D.C.Alexandra Adams

It’s time we paid attention to what the administration and its congressional allies have in mind.

House Bill a Giveaway for Polluters, Cuts Health Protections

May 12, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce released its bill text that would be part of a massive tax cut measure for billionaires.

House Tax Measure Would Gut Manufacturing Boom

May 12, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

The House Committee on Ways and Means released its bill text for its massive package delivering tax cuts for billionaires.

Natural Resources Committee Sells Off Public Lands in the Dead of Night

May 7, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States

The House Committee on Natural Resources advanced a sweeping set of environmental rollbacks, pushing through provisions that would sell off public lands, expand fossil fuel leasing, and gut bedrock protections.

Interior Pushes Illegal Plan to Rush Oil Drilling, Mining Projects

April 24, 2025 Press ReleaseUnited States, Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced it will invoke “emergency” authority to fast-track fossil fuel and mining projects on public lands and in federal waters. 

EPA’s Reckless Move to Halt Clean Energy Grants

March 12, 2025 Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.

Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced that the agency would cancel $20 billion of contracts that are poised to deliver unprecedented clean energy upgrades to homes, businesses, schools, and churches across the nation.

The State of the Union is Dire

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

President Trump will address a joint session of Congress tonight.