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February 7, 2019 | Feature

The Green New Deal and the Fight for Survival

To avert a climate catastrophe, members of the Sunrise Movement are pushing to pass the Green New Deal, a bold plan to get our country off dirty energy within the next decade.

January 25, 2019 | Letter

Letter: Industry Favors During Government Shutdown

Letter to senior officials at the Department of Interior and U.S. Forest Service from 86 organizations representing millions of members nationally and internationally, writing to express objection to the continuation of their agencies’ oil and gas development and logging activities on public lands, waters, and forests during the partial federal government shutdown.

January 25, 2019 | Press Release

86 Organizations Representing Millions Demand Answers from Top Interior Department, U.S. Forest Service Officials on Oil & Gas, Logging Industry Favors During Shutdown

National network of environmental advocates slams continued oil and gas development, logging activities on public lands, proposed rollbacks on FOIA policies

January 17, 2019 | Article

D.C. Is Shut Down for the People — and Open for President Trump’s Corporate Cronies

The government is working just fine for the oil and gas industry.

January 16, 2019 | Article

Reading Between the Lines of Wheeler’s Pro-Polluter Agenda

The EPA nominee may not give the media a climate denial sound bite, but he clearly has no intention to tackle the problem.

January 9, 2019 | Press Release

Earthjustice Statement on Nomination of Andrew Wheeler to Head Environmental Protection Agency

“If confirmed, he would continue the policy of dirty energy bailouts, eliminating public health safeguards, and climate denial that the Trump administration embraces with open arms.”

January 8, 2019 | From the Experts

Climate Action Is a Secret Winner in the 2018 Farm Bill

The 2018 Farm Bill is surprisingly climate-conscious.

January 2, 2019 | Article

With a Stroke of Red Marker, Zinke Leaves Interior to His Deputy

The new acting Interior Secretary, David Bernhardt, has been described as a "walking conflict of interest."

December 20, 2018 | Press Release

Earthjustice: Vote NO on President Trump’s “Useless, Dangerous, and Hateful” Border Wall

Proposal, which environmental advocates call “lethal to our people and our wildlife,” likely to see consideration in House of Representatives this evening

December 15, 2018 | Press Release

Trump Administration Likely Trades One Industry Shill for Another with Zinke Departure

Zinke’s attacks on environment, public lands harmful to U.S., likely to repeat with new Secretary

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