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States Can Act Now to Create Workplace Heat Standards

BackgrounderUnited StatesJuanita Constible
There are several pathways to heat standards, which vary by the different buckets of state plan states and territories.

Trump EPA Rejects Hawaiʻi's Clean Air Plan, Preventing Utility's Own Requests to Retire Aging Oil-Burning Plants

Press ReleaseHonolulu
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency finalized its rejection of Hawaiʻi's Regional Haze State Implementation Plan on Friday.

House Transportation Bill Would Stick Americans With New Fees, Higher Costs

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released legislation that would set priorities and funding for federally funded transportation over the next five years.

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House Farm Bill Fails Farmers and Rural Communities

ReactionWashington, D.C.
The House approved its version of the 2026 Farm Bill today that would roll back environmental safeguards and programs that help farmers lower their energy bills and invest in affordable, reliable clean energy.

EPA to Repeal Key Protections Against Toxic Forever Chemicals in Tap Water

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced plans to repeal health standards for four of six toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” found in drinking water, and to delay implementation of the remaining two standards, reversing course on a crucial public…

The State of the Union is Dire

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States
President Trump will address a joint session of Congress tonight.

Trump Says EPA Will Cut 65 Percent of Staff

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States
President Trump said today that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin plans to cut up to 65 percent of the agency's staff, an unprecedented move that would catastrophically weaken the EPA's ability to protect human health and the environment.

Zeldin Acknowledges Need for Climate Action

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
Lee Zeldin, the nominee to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told a Senate panel today that fossil fuel emissions are causing climate change, a contrast with President-elect Trump’s frequent statements that climate change is a hoax.

Rollins Picked to Lead USDA

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President-elect Trump announced that he would nominate Brooke Rollins to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture today. Rollins is the CEO of the America First Policy Institute.

USDA Unveils Historic $7.3 Billion Investment in Rural Clean Energy

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced $7.3 billion in historic Inflation Reduction Act funding today for non-profit rural electric cooperatives through the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program.

Most Public Comments submitted on Safe Drinking Water Rule in History

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, as the public comment period closed for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) to address the lead-contaminated drinking water crisis, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of comments support the…

Radhika Fox Departing EPA [NRDC Reaction]

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water Radhika Fox announced that she will be leaving the Agency next month.

Report: U.S. Must Ban Seafood From 11 Nations Over Whale, Dolphin Deaths 

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
A report issued today by conservation groups finds that 11 nations have at least some fisheries that fail to meet U.S. standards for preventing whale and dolphin bycatch. Entanglement in fishing gear kills hundreds of thousands of marine mammals around…

EPA Cuts HFC Use in Air Conditioning, Supermarket Refrigerators

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
WASHINGTON – In a move supported by both environmental groups and industry associations, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized standards that will phase out the most climate-warming hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in key applications -- from aerosols to heat pumps; supermarket refrigerators to…