Assembly kills NY HEAT Act in final budget deal, the leading policy to address energy affordability and climate change

The EPA’s finalized rule will yield billions of dollars in public health benefits for nearby environmental justice communities, who are overexposed to toxic pollution.

Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office: “It does send a statement that even though we are seeing the impacts of climate change increasing every year in the state — more people being impacted by stronger hurricanes, we’re seeing sea level rise, we’re seeing hotter summers — that we don’t think that is something we should be…

Liz Moran, Policy Advocate, Northeast Office: “Last year we really saw a remarkable sequence of events, where we had the wildfire smoke from Canada that made the air quality in New York unsafe to breathe, smoky for days. Not long after that, we had unprecedented flooding that led to the shutdown of the MTA and…

What PFAS are, why they’re harmful, and what we can do to protect ourselves from them

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

Senate must pass permanent Grand Canyon mining ban before 117th Congress ends

Ocean ecosystems are essential to our world, and thankfully, we can still chart a new path forward to protect them.

The United States Government Commitments, developed as part of a lengthy mediation process, pledge the federal government to continued support for the recovery of healthy and abundant salmon populations in the Columbia River Basin, provide significant federal funding to the Northwest, assist region-wide efforts and planning to address climate change, and set the region on a path to breach the four lower Snake River dams.

NYS Senate’s and Assembly’s Budget Bills restore clean water funding; Senate champions bold climate policies

With the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, California would be locked in to waste $27 billion in climate dollars on dirty fuels over the next decade. It’s up to Governor Newsom to fix it.

Senate champions full NY HEAT Act, which will save New Yorkers money and fight climate change

The NYS Assembly included new policy that codifies a 6% cap on energy bills for eligible low-income New Yorkers

Heeding calls from tribal leaders, President Biden designated nearly a million acres as Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

Arizonans urge Senate to pass bill to secure protections for lands around Grand Canyon

Statement from Earthjustice Senior Legislative Representative Blaine Miller-McFeeley

Ruling will mean a free-flowing Puyallup River for fish for the first time in more than 100 years

The National Roadless Rule, now reinstated on the Tongass National Forest, safeguards vast tracts of old-growth forest that serve as important carbon sinks.