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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…
Trump Is Nominating New Judges for Lifetime Appointments. The Senate has a Constitutional Duty to Rigorously Scrutinize Them
By: Coby Dolan, Legislative Director of the Access to Justice Program, Earthjustice Action Over the first few months of President Trump’s second term, we have witnessed an unprecedented attack on the rule of law, with executive orders, memos, and agency…
Urge your senators to reject the budget reconciliation bill
The House recently passed the Republican budget reconciliation bill with a narrow 215-214 vote, sending it to the Senate. President Trump is eager to sign this laundry list of egregious, anti-environmental proposals into law, and we can’t let him get…
Hold senators accountable as they vet Trump’s judicial nominees
President Trump announced the first slate of judicial nominees of his second term, which means Senate hearings to assess their qualifications are here as well. As Senators consider whether these nominees should hold lifetime appointments, they must do it right.
Earthjustice Action Statement on House Passage of Republican Megabill
MEDIA CONTACT: Geoffrey Nolan, gnolan@earthjustice.org WASHINGTON, D.C.–Today, the House of Representatives passed the Republican budget reconciliation bill on a party-line vote with only two Republicans opposing. The bill includes sweeping provisions to increase drilling, mining, and logging of our public…
Tell Congress to reject the anti-environmental Republican budget bill!
Congressional Republicans are currently negotiating their budget reconciliation bill. This bill cannot pass if we want to retain crucial environmental protections, as well as the rule of law itself.
Earthjustice Action Statement on House Natural Resources Committee Reconciliation Bill
MEDIA CONTACT: Geoffrey Nolan, gnolan@earthjustice.org WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold a markup of its budget reconciliation bill. The bill includes numerous provisions to expand oil, gas, coal, hardrock mining, and timber production on public lands, expedite…
Earthjustice Action Applauds Reintroduction of the Arctic Refuge Protection Act
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.) reintroduced the Arctic Refuge Protection Act. The legislation will permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by designating its coastal…
