Urge your senators to reject the budget reconciliation bill
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.
Read MoreEarthjustice 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…
Read MoreTell Congress to reject the anti-environmental Republican budget bill!
Congressional Republicans are currently negotiating their budget reconciliation bill. This bill cannot pass if we want to retain crucial environmental protections, as well as the rule of law itself.
Read MoreEarthjustice 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…
Read MoreStop Congress from allowing dirty mining on public lands!
Congress is debating a series of proposals that would open up more of our public lands to dirty mining operations and threaten precious water resources, sacred sites, and our climate.
Read MoreEarthjustice Action Statement on Senator Slotkin’s Joint Address Response
WASHINGTON, DC—After Senator Elissa Slotkin’s (D-Mich.) speech in response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress, Earthjustice Action Vice President of Policy and Legislation Raúl GarcÃa issued the following statement: “Senator Slotkin successfully articulated a roadmap for addressing some of our most pressing issues, holding those in power accountable, and reinvigorating our democracy. She…
Read MoreMining 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 MoreSenators Kaine and Heinrich Fight Trump’s Executive Overreach in Congress
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on S.J.Res. 10, which was introduced by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) to terminate President Trump’s executive order declaring an ‘energy emergency.’ Since signing the order on his first day in office, President Trump has frozen federal funds for clean energy projects, fired thousands…
Read MoreA Bipartisan Senate Confirmed Doug Burgum—Their Job is Not Over
By: Laura M. Esquivel, Senior Legislative Representative Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 At the end of January, the U.S. Senate confirmed North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to lead the Interior Department in a bipartisan vote. Compared to some of Trump’s more erratic picks for Cabinet positions, Burgum’s hearing seemed almost genteel, easily bantering…
Read MoreLee Zeldin is Now the Head of the EPA: Here’s How That Spells Disaster for Public Health and Communities
By: Ranjani Prabhakar, Healthy Communities Legislative Director Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 It should be common sense that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes in protecting the public from environmental harm, right? Sadly, that’s not the case with Lee Zeldin, President Trump’s recently confirmed Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,…
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