The House Republicans' reckless plan to cut $100 billion in government spending by Oct. 1, including a 30 per cent budget reduction for the Environmental Protection Agency, would inflict grave harm to our economy and to our health. NRDC's experts analyze how the cuts would affect environmental protections.
Posted November 14, 2011 by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
As early as this week, the Senate will consider a funding bill for Energy and Water Development, and will be asked to undermine safeguards for a host of water bodies under the Clean Water Act. Senators Barrasso (R-WY) and Heller...continued→
Posted September 22, 2011 by Bobby McEnaney in Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
But opposition arises from the outdoor recreation industry. In June, at the height of the budget battle, we wrote about the Obama administration’s unfortunate backtracking on a key policy to protect wild lands. By agreeing to a Republican sponsored rider...continued→
Posted September 20, 2011 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
Tomorrow, the Senate Appropriations Committee is set to mark-up the 2012 fiscal year appropriations bill which outlines the amount of funding that will be invested in international action on global warming. A new letter from 15 major environmental, faith-based, development,...continued→
Posted September 20, 2011 by Scott Slesinger in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
The President, as promised, made his recommendations yesterday to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction commonly called the “Super Committee” to meet its ambitious agenda. This joint committee is responsible for finding between $1.2 and $ 1.5 trillion in...continued→
Posted September 19, 2011 by Scott Slesinger in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
House Republicans’ obsession with larding must-pass funding bills with policy riders mainly aimed at rolling back environmental safeguards and stopping the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from doing its job of protecting public health seems to have taken a short...continued→
Posted July 30, 2011 by Al Huang in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
This past week, the full House of Representatives began consideration of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY 2012 (H.R. 2584). As many of my colleagues have already blogged, H.R. 2584 includes many anti-environmental riders and amendments that...continued→
Posted July 26, 2011 by Jake Schmidt in Solving Global Warming
The House Appropriations subcommittee responsible for outlining US international global warming funding has just released their bill detailing the amount of money that will support these efforts. This comes on the heels of a House authorization bill passed out of...continued→
Posted July 26, 2011 by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, U.S. Law and Policy
Last week, I wrote about two handfuls of dirty water “riders” in the House of Representatives’ funding bill for EPA and the Department of the Interior. This week, the bill is being considered on the House floor, and yet even...continued→
Posted July 25, 2011 by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
On Friday, we won another legal battle in the fight to bring protective ballast water standards to the Great Lakes! The federal appeals court in Washington, DC denied a legal challenge by ports and shipping interests to U.S. EPA’s Clean...continued→
Posted July 19, 2011 by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Tea Party leaders in the House have dramatically stepped up their assault on America’s environmental and public health safeguards. Last week alone they used about 50 floor votes and more than 30 policy riders on spending bills to undermine the...continued→
