Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is On Its Way to Having Big Ugly Impacts on the Environment

A hand holding coal.

By Raúl García, 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…

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State Supreme Court Decisions with Huge Implications for the Future of Environmental Protection

Montana, USA

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…

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President Trump’s Plan to Put a Coal Executive in Charge of Coal Regulations

Construction equipment at a mining site

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…

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Earthjustice Action Statement on Senate Passage of Budget Reconciliation Bill

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the U.S. Senate passed President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill. Following the vote, Earthjustice Action Vice President of Policy and Legislation Raúl García issued the following statement:   “Senate Republicans ignored public outcry from their own constituents and passed an unpopular bill that will devastate our public lands and waters, sacrifice vulnerable communities, and stifle…

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Earthjustice Action Statement on Removal of Public Lands Sales from Reconciliation Bill

WASHINGTON, DC—Last night, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced he had dropped his proposal to sell off more than a million acres of public lands from the Republican reconciliation bill. The bill still includes plans for fossil fuel leases and timber sales on millions of acres of public lands and waters—including in ecologically sensitive places like…

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State Supreme Courts are on the Front Lines of Defense Against Attempts to Roll Back Environmental Protections

The Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii

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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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 acres of public lands to oil, gas, coal, mining, and logging operations. Additionally, the bill…

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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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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 permitting timelines, and shield many actions from judicial review. In anticipation of the mark-up, Earthjustice…

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