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Press Release
Media Advisory: Press Conference THIS THURSDAY JAN. 14
State Impact Center, state attorneys general to release new report on key legal victories that kept Trump administration’s harmful energy and environmental policies from taking root.
January 12, 2021 -
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Major Agricultural State AGs Challenge EPA Rollback That Leaves Farmworkers, Communities at Increased Risk of Exposure to Toxic Pesticides
AGs warn weakened Worker Protection Standard will increase acute and chronic exposure to pesticides, leading to higher rates of cancer and other conditions among farmworkers, the majority of whom are people of color.
December 17, 2020 -
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State Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Opposing EPA’s Attempt to Skirt Accountability for Faulty Registration of Sulfoxaflor Pesticide
Brief warns granting EPA’s motion would allow the agency to “indefinitely delay review of its pesticide registrations while potentially risky pesticides remain on the market.”
December 7, 2020 -
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Attorneys General of California, New Mexico Blast Proposed Rollback of Interior Department Royalty Reforms
AGs warn Trump administration is “[p]erpetuating rules that undervalue our nation’s natural resources” based on reasoning “directly contradicted by the factual record.”
November 30, 2020 -
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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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