Urge your senators to reject the budget reconciliation bill

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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 the chance.

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Hold senators accountable as they vet Trump’s judicial nominees

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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.

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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 lands and waters, effectively repeal job-creating clean energy tax credits, rescind funding from IRA programs and…

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Mining Reform is Essential to Holding Mining Companies Accountable and Protecting Public Lands and Communities

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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…

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Chris 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…

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100 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,…

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