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The EPA revoked the finding that greenhouses gases threaten public health and welfare, then weakened vehicle emissions standards.

See how well you understand what the Trump administration is up to

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is repealing the “endangerment finding” — the scientific finding that mandates the government to protect the public against climate pollution.

The EPA’s proposal rejects mainstream science and misunderstands the law.

EPA ignores settled law and science to advance fossil fuels at expense of public health & environment

The U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to limit climate pollution.

The third National Climate Assessment released today highlights the effects of climate change across our nation, and concludes that we are not prepared for the significant risks posed by our rapidly changing climate

Passes wrongheaded bill to stop EPA action on climate change.

Request would require polluters to use known controls

This week the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed industry by refusing to hear challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that carbon dioxide and other climate change pollutants endanger our health. The court also rejected attacks on carbon pollution limits for cars and trucks – limits that respond to the court’s 2007 ruling in Massachusetts v.…

While for many in the country, thoughts of Hurricane Sandy are being replaced by thoughts of the election, football, or the Thanksgiving holiday, for the tens of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey, survival and their families’ well-being are still the urgent thoughts. Two weeks after the storm, more than 68,000 people…

Justices deny lawsuit against power plants by holding that EPA has authority to set limits

Today, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling once again affirmed the Environmental Protection Agency as the most rightful and authorized regulator of climate change pollution in the land. While some in Congress have been trying to take this power away from the EPA, and have been attempting to block EPA controls on climate change pollution, the Supreme…

House passes Dirty Air Act to block protective pollution limits

Four Dirty Air Acts voted down by Senate today

The Senate just voted to reject four—count ’em 1-2-3-4—bad amendments that would strangle and block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from being able to limit dangerous carbon dioxide pollution from the nation’s biggest polluters. These Dirty Air Acts went down in the upper chamber today because enough of the Senate still obviously believes that the well-being,…

The Senate votes tomorrow on four pieces of legislation that all aim to block or delay Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) action to reduce the carbon dioxide pollution of the nation’s biggest polluters. These polluters have convinced their friends in Congress to author a wave of bills exempting them from strong air pollution limits—they are the…