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Senate Republicans Celebrated Clean Energy Boom in Their States, Now Face Vote to Kill It
June 18, 2025
Trump’s EPA Rolls Back Climate Protections, Further Endangering Latino Communities
Repeal of power plant pollution limits threatens public health, worsens climate impacts, and deepens environmental injustice for Latinos across the U.S. WASHINGTON — Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has moved to repeal one of the most consequential climate protections aimed at limiting carbon pollution from power plants, marking a significant escalation in President Trump’s efforts to […]
June 11, 2025
La EPA de Trump Revoca Protecciones Climáticas, Amenazando Aún Más a las Comunidades Latinas
La derogación de los límites de contaminación de las centrales eléctricas aumenta las amenazas a la salud pública, empeora el impacto del cambio climático y agrava la injusticia ambiental para los latinos en todo Estados Unidos. WASHINGTON — La Agencia de Protección Ambiental del gobierno de Trump tomó pasos para derogar una de las protecciones […]
June 11, 2025
Senate Republicans Go Nuclear to Keep Money in the Pockets of Polluters
Washington, D.C. – Senate Republicans are overriding a 50-year-old law that allows California and other states to establish vehicle pollution standards and protect their residents’ health. This action could have devastating consequences on programs reaching far beyond pollution standards and lead to higher costs for consumers by taking away options for more fuel-efficient cars.
May 21, 2025
Trump EPA’s Superfund Plan Doesn’t Make Up for Disastrous Rollbacks of Environmental Protections and Giveaways to Fossil Fuel Executives
The EPA has announced plans to step up Superfund site cleanups, even as the Trump administration continues to slash agency staff and dismantle key environmental protection policies WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is shifting more of its focus towards cleaning up Superfund sites — heavily contaminated sites across the United States, often left behind by poorly managed […]
May 8, 2025
El Plan de la EPA de Trump para los Sitios Superfund No Compensa el Grave Retroceso en Protecciones Ambientales que Favorece a las Grandes Petroleras
La EPA anunció planes para intensificar la limpieza de sitios Superfund, mientras la administración Trump continúa recortando el personal y desmantelando políticas clave de protección ambiental WASHINGTON — La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés) ha anunciado que centrará más su atención en la limpieza de los sitios Superfund, áreas altamente contaminadas en todo […]
May 8, 2025
Subject: 100% Legitimate Pollution Exemption Request
Washington, D.C. – Today, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump is streamlining his giveaways to corporate polluters and will grant them permission to increase their pollution based on a single request via email. The Trump administration even offers a template companies can use to get approvals. Here’s what we imagine this email might […]
March 27, 2025
Why Hasn’t Trump Visited Communities Impacted by Disasters?
Washington, D.C. — It’s now been one week since a series of deadly storms across the country devastated communities and killed at least 42 people in Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and other areas across the West and Midwest, and Donald Trump still hasn’t visited any of the impacted areas.
March 24, 2025
SHOT/CHASER: Big Oil Meets with Trump to Bolster Their Bottom Line
Washington, D.C. – Tomorrow, Big Oil is meeting with Donald Trump at the White House to thank him for gutting health protections and to ask for him to protect their profits by keeping oil prices high for Americans.
March 18, 2025
Trump’s EPA is Gutting Decades of Protections to Put More Toxic Chemicals in Our Air and Water
Washington, D.C. - After Donald Trump spent months promising to lower energy prices, it’s taken him just a few weeks for his chaotic threats of tariffs against our allies, indiscriminate layoffs, and economic ruin to start doing the opposite.
March 12, 2025
La promesa del Secretario de Energía de ignorar el cambio climático perjudicará a los más vulnerables y revertirá el progreso energético
En CERAWeek, el Secretario Chris Wright, declaró que quiere deshacer el enfoque de la administración anterior sobre el clima. WASHINGTON — El lunes, el Secretario de Energía, Chris Wright, un ex ejecutivo petrolero, le prometió a la industria energética en CERAWeek en Houston revertir completamente las políticas de energía limpia de la administración Biden y […]
March 11, 2025