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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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NRDC President: “Protect Our Sacred Right to Vote”

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Senate is expected to take up a key procedural vote as early as Tuesday on the For the People Act, legislation the House has passed providing key voting rights protections in the face of a raft of state-level measures…

NRDC Reacts to Secret Duke Energy Bill in North Carolina

Press ReleaseNorth Carolina
A bill drafted by Duke Energy behind closed doors with legislators was unveiled on Tuesday. The bill would mandate the construction of new natural gas plants, locking North Carolina into dirty energy generation for decades. The bill also decreases utility…

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…

Denver Releases Renewable Heating and Cooling Plan

Press ReleaseDenver
The Denver Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency (CASR) released a Renewable Heating and Cooling Plan today showing how Denver residents can heat and cool their homes and businesses efficiently with clean electricity. The Plan describes opportunities to electrify…

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…

The Dangerous Keystone XL Tar Sands Project is Finally Dead

Press ReleaseUnited States
TC Energy reportedly will announce it is canceling the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, putting an end to a fossil fuel project that endangered waterways, communities and the climate, which President Biden denied a key permit for on his…

Biden Administration Set to Reverse Trump Efforts to Weaken ESA

Press ReleaseUnited States
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (“Services”) today announced they will propose changes to Endangered Species Act regulations. The changes are designed to reverse, in part, a set of five regulations enacted by the Trump…

NC DEQ Nominee’s Record Should be Focus

Press ReleaseNorth Carolina
The nomination of Dionne Delli-Gatti to lead the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) was rejected by a state Senate committee today. Governor Roy Cooper appointed Delli-Gatti as head of the DEQ in February 2021 after Michael Regan was named…

U.S. Department of Agriculture Announces Crop Insurance Incentive

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Department of Agriculture today announced it is giving a $5 per acre savings on crop insurance to farmers who planted cover crops during the 2021 cropping year. The move aims to help farmers who faced a tough year during…

Sound Science Returns to EPA

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that it’s scrapping a dangerous Trump-era rule that would have undercut the use of sound scientific studies for setting health-based pollution limits.