WASHINGTON – The Department of Interior took steps to invalidate key pieces of a locally-driven plan developed across 11 states to protect the greater sage grouse, an iconic bird surviving on just half of its historic Western range. U.S. Secretary…
New York City is approximately 72% impervious. With 218 square miles of paved area—surfaces such as parking lots, building rooftops, streets, and sidewalks—water has nowhere to go when it rains but run down the streets and into gutters, collecting an…
Los Angelenos spend a staggering average of 104 hours per year sitting in traffic—and this means transportation is the leading source of climate change in California.
CHICAGO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today took action against a bulk storage facility over emissions of the neurotoxin manganese in close proximity to neighborhoods and schools on Chicago’s Southeast Side. The EPA issued a notice of violation…
The Trump administration sent the first written notice that it intends to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. This notice comes as no surprise, but it reinforces how President Trump intends to walk America away from global leadership on climate…
There is ongoing concern about neurotoxic manganese being stored on Chicago’s Southeast Side—the same community where petcoke and coal facilities have also been causing a public health hazard by dusting up the residential neighborhoods next door.
WASHINGTON – Capping a week of legal setbacks for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, the Natural Resources Defense Council and partner groups filed a motion asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn Pruitt’s suspension of standards…
WASHINGTON – After being sued by the Natural Resources Defense Council, other public interest groups and 16 states, Environmental Protection Administrator Scott Pruitt late Wednesday reversed his earlier decision to put off implementing Obama-era federal standards curbing emissions of smog-causing…
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