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REPORT: Trump’s Energy Crisis Is Spiking Utility Costs Across the Country
Washington, D.C. – Household electric bills are up 10 percent nationally since Trump took office, and are poised to spike even further.
August 18, 2025
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Texas State Representatives Ann Johnson and Armando Walle, and extreme weather survivors condemn Governor Abbott for holding flood relief hostage to push partisan redistricting scheme
TEXAS — Today, on the final day of Governor Greg Abbott’s failed special session, Texas State Representatives Ann Johnson and Armando Walle, and Keli Rabon and Kylie Nidever, two women who were impacted by the recent Kerr County flood, held a press conference calling out the Texas governor’s refusal to deliver urgently needed disaster relief to […]
August 15, 2025
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NEW REPORT: Republicans Raked in $100 Million from Big Oil, Then Voted to Kill Clean Energy and Hike Utility Costs
Washington, D.C. – Climate Power’s new report, first published in the Guardian, shows that vulnerable GOP members of Congress raked in millions from the oil and gas industry shortly before voting to kill their home-state clean energy competition. Congressional Republicans took more than $105 million from Big Oil, then backed a Republican Rate Hike that’s […]
August 15, 2025
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Big Oil Praises Trump’s Bill For Huge Tax Breaks In Q2 Earnings Calls
Washington, D.C. – As Big Oil reported its second-quarter profits in recent weeks, industry executives lavished praise on Donald Trump’s Republican Rate Hike, which hands them huge tax breaks while hiking energy bills for working families. The oil barons were practically tripping over themselves in their rush to celebrate Trump’s bill, and the early returns […]
August 15, 2025
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ICYMI: NPR: “Trump Administration Seeks To Eliminate Or Privatize Energy Star Program”
Washington, D.C. – Today, NPR reports that the Trump administration’s efforts to kill Energy Star, a critical energy efficiency standards program, will increase consumer costs and create uncertainty for businesses. NPR: Trump administration seeks to eliminate or privatize Energy Star program NPR: “The Environmental Protection Agency estimates the Energy Star program has saved Americans over […]
August 13, 2025
Chris Wright is Wrong. The Cost of Climate-Fueled Extreme Weather Is Too High.
Washington, D.C. — Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright is on a full-blown climate-denial media tour, following the release of the DOE’s report that attacks decades of established climate science.
August 11, 2025
Trump Administration Ends Lifeline Program that Cuts Energy Bills for Low-Income Families
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In yet another blow to working families, the Trump Administration is attempting to terminate the EPA’s Solar for All grants—gutting a Congressionally appropriated $7 billion initiative that was projected to lower energy bills by $400 a year for nearly one million low-income households across all 50 states and U.S. territories, including on Tribal lands.
August 7, 2025
En el mismo bote: Historias de la crisis climática – Mientras el país arde, nos quitan las protecciones
Mientras el país arde, nos quitan las protecciones Un megaincendio que está arrasando partes del Gran Cañón y una ola de calor sin precedentes que afecta a grandes regiones de Estados Unidos son los ejemplos más recientes de cómo los desastres climáticos se están volviendo más frecuentes e intensos. Mientras tanto, la administración Trump está […]
August 7, 2025
SHOT/CHASER: As Governor, Doug Burgum Praised Clean Energy; Now He’s Restricting It For Republican Governors
Washington, D.C. — While governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum praised clean energy for creating jobs, boosting the state’s economy, and helping to meet energy demand.
August 6, 2025
As ‘Megafire’ Burns, Experts Warn Trump’s National Parks Plan Would Bankrupt Arizona and Gut Fire Response
PHOENIX– With the Dragon Bravo “megafire” so far consuming more than 126,000 acres near Grand Canyon National Park, former National Park Service Director Chuck Sams and veteran wildfire chief Bobbie Scopa warned that Donald Trump’s plan to transfer control of national parks to the states would cripple Arizona’s fire response, gut its economy, and put public lands at […]
August 6, 2025