Posts by Grace Wyner
Save 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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