Mining Reform is Essential to Holding Mining Companies Accountable and Protecting Public Lands and Communities
Earthjustice Action Applauds Reintroduction of the Mining Waste Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Representative Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), and House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) introduced the Mining Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act. The bill would update the General Mining Act of 1872 to…
Read MoreChris Wright is Poised to Be the Next Secretary of Energy Under the Trump Administration: Here’s What That Means for the Future of Climate Action
By: Meg Slattery, PhD, Staff Scientist Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 If you watched President Trump’s Energy Secretary nominee Chris Wright’s confirmation hearing, you might have been pleasantly surprised to hear several reasonable statements on climate change. In the typical back-and-forth with Senators, he repeatedly reaffirmed his belief in climate change with statements…
Read MoreUrge your senators to be strong on the environment during the confirmation process
Our Senators have the constitutional duty to hold these nominees accountable to ensure that they act in the best interest of people across this country, not corporations. We need you to make sure they ask tough questions.
Read MoreTell Congress: Stop Attacking our Clean Truck Standards!
We need your help. Tell your Member of Congress to oppose efforts to undermine clean truck standards!
Read MoreTell Congress We Need Mining Reform Now, Not Handouts To Industry, For A Just, Clean Energy Transition
Our transition to clean energy is critical to fighting climate change and will be powered by minerals. The problem? Our mining laws remain stuck in the 19th century. Domestic mining operations are governed by the Hardrock Mining Law of 1872, a Civil War-era statute enacted to settle the West. One hundred and fifty-one years later,…
Read More100 Days of Environmental Attacks Under the Republican-Controlled Congress
By: Geoffrey Nolan After 100 days of controlling the U.S. House of Representatives, House Republicans haven’t been shy about showing their cards. Whether it was Speaker Kevin McCarthy caving to a list of demands from the radical right to become Speaker of the House, or the seemingly endless investigations into Hunter Biden, social media companies,…
Read MoreTell Congress to Stop Attacking Clean Water Protections!
We all know that water is the foundation of life, and we must do everything we can to protect it. Instead of protecting our water resources, Congressional Republicans are attempting to roll back the Biden Administration’s clean water protections to benefit corporate polluters. What did the Biden Administration do? Last December, the Environmental Protection Agency…
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