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Press Release
Looking Back to Move Forward: Resolving Health & Environmental Crises
New book explores seven major health and environmental crises in recent decades, and the lessons they offer as we address future challenges.
November 12, 2020 -
Press Release
State Impact Center Launches Midnight Watch Project to Track Major Environmental and Energy Regulatory Changes During Final Days of Trump Administration
Center will provide rapid-response updates on breaking developments via Twitter, online dashboard.
November 9, 2020 -
Press Release
State Attorneys General Sue Energy Department Over Widespread Failure to Review and Update Energy Efficiency Standards
Coalition seeks court order to compel Energy Department to comply with its statutory obligations, complete responsibilities ‘unreasonably delayed and unlawfully withheld.’
November 9, 2020 -
Press Release
Media Advisory: New Book on Judicial and Legislative Settlements of Major Health and Environmental Crises — Online Press Conference November 12
David J. Hayes of the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center and Scott Fulton of the Environmental Law Institute to announce release of Looking Back to Move Forward: Resolving Health & Environmental Crises
October 22, 2020 -
Press Release
State AGs Push EPA to Go Beyond ‘Feeble, Already-Obsolete’ Greenhouse Gas Standards for Airplanes
Coalition calls for meaningful controls on climate-warming pollution from aviation, ‘the single largest unregulated GHG emissions source’ in the domestic transportation sector.
October 19, 2020 -
Press Release
Seventeen AGs Blast Administration’s Latest Effort to ‘Severely Undercut’ Endangered Species Protections
Coalition warns ‘misguided, unlawful, and destructive’ proposal would result in ‘dramatic reduction in the amount of critical habitat’ designated for protection, jeopardizing species’ survival and recovery.
October 8, 2020 -
Press Release
State AGs Urge EPA to Protect Public Health and Welfare by Strengthening Air Quality Standards for Ozone
After ‘flawed and hasty process,’ EPA proposed no changes despite clear evidence that more protective standards are needed.
October 1, 2020 -
Press Release
Eighteen AGs File Amicus Brief in Support of Tribes Challenging Unlawful Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline
Coalition urges court to protect tribes’ rights by affirming vacatur of pipeline easement, emphasizing that “for NEPA’s promise to be fulfilled, NEPA violations must have consequences.”
September 23, 2020 -
Press Release
State Attorneys General Challenge Trump Administration Plan to Open Pristine Arctic Refuge to Oil & Gas Drilling
Coalition warns drilling would permanently scar the Coastal Plain, an area of “unrivaled and inestimable conservation value” within “[o]ur nation’s largest and wildest refuge.”
September 9, 2020 -
Press Release
State Attorneys General Urge Federal Agencies to Ensure Critical Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
Coalition warns U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service’s “unduly restrictive” proposal “conflicts with the fundamental, overarching purposes of the [Endangered Species Act] to conserve endangered and threatened species and their habitat.”
September 4, 2020 -
Press Release
State Attorneys General Challenge Unprecedented and Unlawful Rewrite of NEPA Regulations
David J. Hayes criticizes administration’s brazen attempt to undermine NEPA, commends AGs for once again serving as “last line of defense.”
August 28, 2020 -
Press Release
Twenty-Three Attorneys General File Lawsuit to Halt Reckless and Unprecedented Weakening of NEPA Regulations
Coalition warns that CEQ’s rewrite of time-tested regulations “strikes at the heart of NEPA” and “will lead to more delay, confusion, and litigation.”
August 28, 2020
