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Press Release
Fourteen State Attorneys General Denounce EPA’s Suspension of Environmental Enforcement
Policy threatens health and environmental protection at a time when COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting Americans who suffer from diseases exacerbated by air pollution.
April 15, 2020 -
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Eight Attorneys General Call on EPA to Redo ‘Deeply Flawed’ Risk Assessment of Widely Used Pesticide
EPA’s downgrade of 1,3-Dichloropropene’s cancer risk rating is unsupported by scientific evidence and departs from decades of regulatory practice.
April 7, 2020 -
Press Release
Amid Worsening Pandemic, Trump Administration Rolls Back Car Fuel Efficiency Standards
Weakened standards will cost thousands of American lives, significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions and cost consumers billions more at the pump.
March 31, 2020 -
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Eleven State Attorneys General Slam Proposal to Roll Back Protections for Migratory Birds
Proposed rule would end penalties under the century-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act for the incidental take of migratory birds.
March 20, 2020 -
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Five State AGs Urge Administration to Forgo 'Sweeping and Unsupported' Changes to Regulatory Enforcement
OMB is soliciting proposals that, AGs say, would expand the administration’s “dismal record on enforcement of environmental, civil rights, and consumer protection laws.”
March 17, 2020 -
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Twenty Attorneys General Rail Against 'Unlawful, Unreasonable, and Unjustified' Attack on NEPA
Proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act’s implementing regulations would limit public input and weaken evaluation of environmental impacts of federal actions.
March 11, 2020 -
Press Release
Ten State AGs Say EPA’s Proposed Drinking Water Standards are Insufficient to Protect Against Lead
Trump administration proposal rolls back requirements for lead service line replacements, allowing old lead pipes to remain in service for decades to come.
February 14, 2020 -
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Eleven State Attorneys General Push EPA to Strengthen Emissions Standards for Ethylene Oxide
Current rules for commercial sterilization facilities allow tens of thousands of pounds of toxic ethylene oxide gas to be release in communities annually.
February 12, 2020 -
Press Release
State Attorneys General React to Release of Final Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule
Trump administration’s Navigable Waters “Protection” Rule removes protections from the majority of the nation’s wetlands and thousands of miles of streams.
January 23, 2020 -
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State Attorneys General Urge EPA to Scrap Pollution Control Rollbacks, Deadline Extensions for Toxic Coal Ash Ponds
AGs call proposal “one more subsidy for dirty, non-economical coal plants at the expense of public health and the environment.”
January 22, 2020 -
Press Release
Twelve State Attorneys General Object to BLM’s Proposal to Expand Drilling in Alaskan Reserve
Trump administration’s plan threatens millions of currently-protected acres in the nation’s largest single block of undisturbed public land.
January 22, 2020 -
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Sixteen State Attorneys General Oppose Trump Administration Proposal to Transport Liquified Natural Gas on Nation’s Rail Lines
Proposal warns of “high consequence” accidents that include “fireballs, flash fire, and explosions from ground-level vapor clouds.”
January 14, 2020