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Progressive coalition encourages EPA to mandate strong GHG reductions from power plants by 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – 28 local, state and national public interest groups from the Climate Reality Check network submitted a letter to Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe for the Office of Air and Ra…
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President takes important climate step in Alaska
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Obama announced a Department of the Interior plan to protect Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in a video released yesterday. Outlining the plan, the presi…
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Senate votes to dismiss climate science
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Senate voted 56 to 42 to table an amendment offered by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on climate science. If approved, the amendment would have been attached to…
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Obama administration urged to fast-track airplane carbon cuts
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six national environmental organizations today called on the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration to move quickly to set emission standards to c…
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State of the Union: President Obamas trade deal would undercut income inequality reductions, while doubling down on climate inaction
WASHINGTON, D.C. — During his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama set forth a broad spectrum of initiatives on issues ranging from economics and education to competitiveness and the env…
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EPA lays out weak plan to regulate methane from the oil and gas industry
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Environmental Protection Agency released a ”strategy” for regulating methane from the oil and gas industry. This document outlines one part of the Obama Administrat…
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Businesses to President Obama: Protect pollinators from bee-toxic pesticide
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, more than 100 businesses including Clif Bar, Nature’s Path, Organic Valley and Stonyfield Farm urged the Obama administration to immediately suspend neonicotinoid pestici…
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Groups calculate tradeoff between Big Oil handouts and social assistance programs
New tool shows that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could support schools, veterans and low income households WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the new Congress begins its work, fourteen groups from across th…
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Leadership christens new Senate with attack on environment
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tonight, the Senate voted on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed on S.1, a bill to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. New Senate Majority Leader Mitch M…
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House votes in favor of Keystone XL pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to force approval of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline by a vote of 266-153, today. The Senate is expected to t…