Posts by Grace Wyner
Earthjustice Action Blasts Trump Administration’s Illegal Cancellation of Energy Funding in Democratic States
MEDIA CONTACT: Geoffrey Nolan, gnolan@earthjustice.org WASHINGTON, DC — This week, the Department of Energy announced the cancellation of $7.5 billion in grants to energy projects in Democratic states. White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought previewed the announcement just one day into the government shutdown. In response, Earthjustice Action Legislative Director for…
Read MoreTrump and Republican Leadership Shut Down the Federal Government
WASHINGTON, DC—In response to the federal government shutdown at midnight tonight, Earthjustice Action President Abigail Dillen issued the following statement: “President Trump and Republican members doing his bidding forced a government shutdown that will cost millions of Americans their livelihoods and vital social safety nets. Systematically eliminating government functions is a wildly inefficient and reckless…
Read MoreDon’t Let Congress Provide Another Handout to the Mining Industry
By Blaine Miller-McFeeley, Senior Legislative Representative Fresh off the passage of Trump’s big, ugly budget bill in July, Congress is once again trying to pass a damaging bill that would put large amounts of our cherished public lands in the hands of the mining industry. Both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives…
Read MoreConstitution Day is the Perfect Opportunity to Fight for Judicial Independence
By Coby Dolan, Legislative Director, Access to Justice, Earthjustice Action For 238 years, the U.S. Constitution has guided our legal system and government: constantly evolving toward ensuring full equality for all, providing a solid foundation for the rule of law, and endowing each of the three branches of government with various powers to facilitate a…
Read MoreSave EPA’s Office of Research and Development
Congress has a chance to save ORD during the appropriations process By Mayra Reiter, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Earthjustice Action In yet another attack on science and public health by the Trump administration, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in July that EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) is…
Read MoreTrump’s Big Ugly Bill is On Its Way to Having Big Ugly Impacts on the Environment
By Raúl GarcÃa, Vice President of Policy and Legislation, Earthjustice Action Last month, President Trump signed H.R. 1, a sweeping bill filled with massive tax cuts for billionaires and handouts to polluting industries. To pay for it, Republicans made deep cuts to our social safety nets and are making up the difference by selling out…
Read MoreState Supreme Court Decisions with Huge Implications for the Future of Environmental Protection
By Grace Wyner, Communications Associate, Earthjustice Action Over the past several years, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly made decisions that diminish the strength and scope of core environmental laws put in place to protect our health and planet. This includes the decision earlier this year in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v Eagle County, which…
Read MorePresident Trump’s Plan to Put a Coal Executive in Charge of Coal Regulations
Earlier this month, congressional Republicans passed, and the president signed into law, the biggest federal giveaway to the coal industry in history. The big, bad budget bill slashed the royalty rate coal companies pay for the value of coal extracted from public lands nearly in half, directed the Department of the Interior to offer up…
Read MoreState 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, to implementing massive rollbacks of clean energy investments that will help us reduce emissions and…
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