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Vice President of Policy & Legislation

A BLM-managed forest in Oregon.
May 21, 2025

House Natural Resources Committee Package Delivers Big Windfalls to Polluting Industries and Billionaires

By Raúl García  /  Policy and Legislation Team

The bill represents one of the most anti-environmental bills ever debated in the U.S. Congress.

The U.S. Capitol building.
March 20, 2024

House Republicans’ ‘Polluter Profits’ Week Continues Putting Corporate Profits Over People

By Raúl García  /  Policy and Legislation Team

We can’t afford to waste time doubling down on a failed status quo.

President Joe Biden speaks at the House Democrats Annual Issues Conference, Thursday, February 8, 2024, at Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia.
March 7, 2024

Celebrating Climate Action and Environmental Justice at the State of the Union while Charting a Better Pathway Forward

By Raúl García  /  Policy and Legislation Team

While the Biden administration has made incredible progress on addressing both climate change and environmental justices, these crises require us to do more to live up to our obligations.

U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
July 19, 2023

House Republicans Released Their Interior-EPA Appropriations Bill. It’s Even Worse than We Expected

By Raúl García  /  Policy and Legislation Team

Congress must reject these poison pill riders and non-negotiable provisions that will harm communities and the environment.

Homes in Washington, D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood were condemned to clear room for a highway in the 1960s. The community fought back.
July 13, 2023

How ‘Freeway Revolts’ Helped Create the People’s Environmental Law

By Raúl García & Teju Adisa-Farrar  /  Policy and Legislation Team

The National Environmental Policy Act is a tool to uplift the people’s environmental voice. Grassroots activists in an iconic Black community paved the way for the law to pass unanimously.

May 31, 2023

Lo Que Usted Necesita Saber Sobre El Techo De La Deuda Y Sus Impactos En La Economía Y El Medio Ambiente

By Raúl García  /  Policy and Legislation Team

Los republicanos de la cámara baja negociaron un acuerdo peligroso para desmantelar las leyes ambientales y silenciar a las comunidades.

Storm clouds pass over the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
May 31, 2023

What You Need to Know About the Debt Ceiling and Its Impacts on the Economy and the Environment

By Raúl García  /  Policy and Legislation Team

House Republicans brokered a dangerous deal to gut environmental laws and silence communities.

Silhouette of oil and gas drilling rigs.
March 29, 2023

It’s Time to Tell the Truth About Republicans’ Disastrous Energy Package

By Raúl García & Blaine Miller-McFeeley & Stephen Schima  /  Policy and Legislation Team

Republicans’ first major legislative package is a giveaway to corporate polluters.

November 22, 2016

Nos Estamos Perdiendo del 90 Por Ciento de la Historia del Oleoducto Dakota Access

By Raúl García  /  Policy and Legislation Team

La protesta del oleoducto Dakota Access es un intento necesario de proteger el agua y la cultura nativa.

Dakota Access pipeline protest at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
November 22, 2016

We’re Missing 90 Percent of the Dakota Access Pipeline Story

By Raúl García  /  Policy and Legislation Team

The Dakota Access pipeline protest is not a violent riot; it’s a solemn struggle to protect water and culture.