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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.

EPA Seeks to Gut PFAS Protections, Leaving Millions Exposed to Toxic Forever Chemicals in Tap Water

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed to eliminate key current standards set to protect people from unsafe levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in drinking water, reversing legal protections adopted in 2024. Additionally, the EPA has reversed course and stopped…

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.

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Court Derails Trump Administration’s Efforts to Take More Water from Bay-Delta

Press ReleaseCalifornia
The Federal Court for the Eastern District of California granted in part a preliminary injunction yesterday against the Trump Administration’s efforts to increase water diversions from California’s Bay-Delta, which threaten endangered species including winter-run Chinook salmon, Delta Smelt, and other…

NRDC, Partners Sue to Protect River Herring

Press ReleaseUnited States
NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) and a coalition of fishing and watershed protection groups filed a lawsuit today in federal court to protect river herring from extinction.

Latest Vaquita Death Comes as US Expands Seafood Ban

Press ReleaseCalifornia
According to credible media reports, another vaquita was found drowned after being trapped in illegal gillnets in the Gulf of California, potentially bringing the total population of the small porpoises to nine individuals. The death came just before a strong…

U.S. Government Expands Mexican Seafood Ban to Save Vaquita Porpoise

Press ReleaseUnited States
The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced today that it will ban imports of Mexican shrimp and other seafood caught in the habitat of the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. The action is being taken under the Marine Mammal Protection…

Trump Rolls Back Endangered Species Act Protections During Trip to California

Press ReleaseCalifornia
During a visit to California today, President Trump moved forward with implementing Endangered Species Act permits (known as biological opinions) that dramatically weaken environmental protections for salmon and other imperiled species in California’s Bay-Delta Watershed. The State of California previously…

Congress Acts to Restore Vital Protections for Migratory Birds

Press ReleaseUnited States
Today Representative Lowenthal (D-CA) with 18 bipartisan original co-sponsors introduced the Migratory Bird Protection Act (H.R. 5552) to restore longstanding protections for migratory birds against industrial take—that is, unintentional but predictable killing of birds. Bird populations in North America are…

Cuomo Signs Bill Banning Wildlife Trafficking

Press ReleaseNew York
Governor Cuomo signed into law a first-of-its-kind bill that bans the sale and possession with intent to sell of parts of any species threatened with extinction. The new law embraces the precautionary principle of protecting species before they reach the…

Court Denies EPA’s Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit on the Use of Toxic Pesticides

Press ReleaseUnited States
A federal court denied the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to force the agency to include Endangered Species Act considerations in the process to approve new neonicotinoid pesticides…

Rapid Ocean Decline Calls for Decisive U.S. Action

Press ReleaseUnited States
World leaders gathered in New York City today to respond to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.