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Blog
The Trump Administration's Deregulation Agenda is Putting Americans at Risk
In the corporate world, “EHS” — “environment, health & safety” — is a serious concern. Any company worth its salt pays attention to EHS issues because workers, customers and neighbors can be negatively impacted by a company’s poor EHS performance.
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Cutting the Heart out of NEPA
In the administration’s latest effort to do a NEPA work-around, the it is proposing revisions to long-standing NEPA regulations.
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The Climate Travesty Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Even though the path to achieve emissions reductions from industries is clear, and despite the Clean Air Act’s requirement that EPA reduce those emissions, EPA is moving in the opposite direction
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Coal in Your Stockings
The holidays are arriving soon. Look for some proverbial lumps of coal in your stockings from the Trump administration.
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Reports
300 and Counting: State AGs Lead the Fight for Health and the Environment
State AGs have taken over 300 actions defending against the Trump administration’s assaults on environmental, climate and clean energy values.
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Blog
EPA Is Messing With Science, Again
Earlier this week, the New York Times obtained a leaked copy of a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking that EPA reportedly has submitted to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget for review.
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State Attorneys General Take on the Anti-Climate Agenda
State AGs have been remarkably successful in fighting the Trump Administration’s efforts to roll back clean energy, climate, and environmental protections.
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A Halloween Message: Stop the Scary Safety Rollbacks
Many (including us) have documented the administration’s serious assaults on the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and other core environmental protections. But we must not forget about safety, where the administration has a downright scary record.
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Like It or Not, the Power Sector is Decarbonizing
After the Supreme Court confirmed in Massachusetts v. EPA that the EPA can (and, following finalization of its Endangerment Finding, must) regulate the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change under the Clean Air Act, two groups of states have squared off against each other over the past few years, based on whether they backed the Obama or Trump administrations’ starkly different visions for how the Act should be implemented.
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Clean Energy Issues Are on the Docket for State Attorneys General
Last Friday in Boston, in connection with hosting a National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) Eastern Region meeting, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced the release of our State Impact Center’s new report entitled: State Attorneys General: Empowering the Clean Energy Future.
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Blog
The Trump Administration’s Car Wreck
The Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and many other bedrock environmental statutes confer substantial authority on both the federal government and the states to reduce harmful pollution
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Methane, Motherhood & Apple Pie
The EPA hoped no one would notice. It waited until the final days in August, when no one is in town, to quietly announce its intent to lift oil and gas industry requirements to control methane emissions.
Insights by David J. Hayes (Past Executive Director)
David J. Hayes was the State Impact Center’s executive director from August 2017 through January 2021, when he left the Center to serve in the Biden administration as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy, a role he filled until late 2022.