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Earthjustice Action Statement on Senate Passage of Budget Reconciliation Bill
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the U.S. Senate passed President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill. Following the vote, Earthjustice Action Vice President of Policy and Legislation Raúl GarcÃa issued the following statement:  “Senate Republicans ignored public outcry from their own constituents and passed an…
Earthjustice Action Statement on Removal of Public Lands Sales from Reconciliation Bill
WASHINGTON, DC—Last night, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced he had dropped his proposal to sell off more than a million acres of public lands from the Republican reconciliation bill. The bill still includes plans for fossil fuel leases and timber…
State Supreme Courts are on the Front Lines of Defense Against Attempts to Roll Back Environmental Protections
By: Coby Dolan, Legislative Director of the Access to Justice Program, Earthjustice Action The Trump administration has challenged, undermined, and even eliminated key environmental protections — from defunding agencies established solely to safeguard people’s health, public lands, and the planet,…
Earthjustice Action Statement on Senate Energy and Natural Resources Reconciliation Bill Text
MEDIA CONTACT: Geoffrey Nolan, gnolan@earthjustice.org WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Republicans released their text of the budget reconciliation bill. The bill includes many of the same giveaways to polluting industries as the House version, opening up millions of…
Earthjustice Action Urges Senators to Rigorously Scrutinize Trump’s Judicial Nominees
WASHINGTON, DC—Today at 10:15AM, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing on President Donald Trump’s first slate of judicial nominees. In anticipation of the hearing, Earthjustice Action Legislative Director of the Access to Justice Program Coby Dolan issued…
