The Court upended a five-decade, science-based set of principles for keeping our waters clean. What now?
Environmental Protection Agency
Posted inLaw and Justice
This Supreme Court Loves to Legislate From the Bench. See Their Latest Decision on the EPA and Wetlands.
Last week, the majority of the justices decided to rewrite the Clean Water Act despite its professed belief in narrowly interpreting statutes.
Posted inPolitics
The Environmental Statute That Could Save the World
It’s not as well-known as the Clean Air Act, but the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act can and must be used to control greenhouse gases. That’s why we’re petitioning the EPA.
Posted inLaw and Justice
On Regulation and Immigration, the Supreme Court Tried to Seem Reasonable
Their end-of-term decisions on greenhouse gas regulation and migrants from Mexico could have been worse, but the conservative justices are still pushing the Court rightward.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump Administration Moves to Accelerate Climate Change
The EPA is moving in the exact wrong direction in the battle to combat global warming with their decision on methane.
Posted inPolitical Animal
By Replacing Obama’s Clean Energy Rules, Trump Threatens Us All
The EPA is ignoring climate science and making it possible to build new coal-fired plants.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Does Devin Nunes Oppose Frivolous Lawsuits or Not?
He has cosponsored legislation aimed at stopping the practice, but he just sued people for being mean to him.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Washington State vs. Washington’s Hate
I guess these lives should just be considered collateral damage in Donald Trump’s battle to defend coal: The Trump administration has hailed its overhaul of federal pollution restrictions on coal-burning power plants as creating new jobs, eliminating burdensome government regulations and ending what President Trump has long described as a “war on coal.” The administration’s […]
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We Have Met the Climate Enemy, and He Is Us
It’s about time we grapple with the ultimate inconvenient truth.
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Big Oil’s Big Nightmare
Fossil fuel companies are scared to death that carbon pricing efforts could be implemented in places like Washington state.
