David Schweikert wants Arizona’s public lands in private hands
The Republican congressman has taken more than $107,000 from groups that want to turn national parks into oil fields and housing developments.
By Jesse Valentine - May 14, 2026Environment
The funds, authorized in the Inflation Reduction Act, will go toward projects that will prepare communities for stronger storms, rising sea levels, and other results of a warming planet.
By Oliver Willis - June 20, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule could help prevent 600 million metric tons of pollution.
By Oliver Willis - June 13, 2023
Conservatives in Congress and Fox News pundits are making light of the dangerous air quality caused by Canadian wildfires that is posing a public health threat to millions of Americans.
By Emily Singer - June 09, 2023
The city has issued multiple boil water notices over the past year.
By Oliver Willis - June 08, 2023
The Bureau of Land Management has approved nearly three dozen renewable energy and grid improvement projects since 2021.
By Associated Press - May 21, 2023
The organization Climate Power found the GOP's Limit, Save, Grow Act would slash funding for clean energy projects that are projected to create tens of thousands of new jobs in the United States.
By Emily Singer - May 03, 2023
House Republicans are threatening a catastrophic debt default if they don't get to make major cuts to historic climate change investments.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2023
The order will create a White House Office for Environmental Justice and require several federal agencies to take steps to protect Americans from the effects of pollution.
By Associated Press - April 21, 2023
The EPA projects that carbon emissions would be reduced by 10 billion tons if the proposal is enacted.
By Oliver Willis - April 18, 2023
Virginia Republicans want to decimate laws promoting clean energy and curbing greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
By Josh Israel - April 18, 2023
The new funds are part of President Joe Biden’s plan to switch to renewable sources of energy as climate change intensifies.
By Associated Press - April 09, 2023
The Union of Concerned Scientists calls wind ‘one of the cleanest and most sustainable ways to generate electricity.’
By Josh Israel - March 29, 2023
The Republican governor opposed the law that Gevo, Inc., credits for supporting its production of sustainable aviation fuel.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2023
Fossil fuel companies have thrown their support behind the Lower Energy Costs Act.
By Josh Israel - March 28, 2023
President Biden ‘vetoed the bill because it jeopardizes the hard-earned life savings of cops, firefighters, teachers, and other workers,’ said the White House.
By Associated Press - March 21, 2023
Republicans in Congress want to repeal investments in climate change infrastructure, weaken environmental laws, and reprioritize fossil fuels.
By Josh Israel - March 14, 2023
The state Legislature should serve all Wisconsinites by supporting key programs in Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget.
By TAI Contributor - March 10, 2023
Wisconsin will receive $250 million, funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, over five years to replace lead service lines.
By Oliver Willis - March 06, 2023
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are requesting the EPA provide information so they can ensure that a grant program isn’t ‘a $100 million slush fund for far-left organizations.’
By Oliver Willis - February 28, 2023
Republican lawmakers are lying about an Energy Department plan to require new gas stoves to be energy-efficient.
By Josh Israel - February 28, 2023
Donald Trump’s administration had tried to open old-growth forests in Alaska and Minnesota to logging and mining.
By Oliver Willis - January 30, 2023
Arkansas Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman has voted against the environment 96% of the time, according to the League of Conservation Voters.
By Josh Israel - January 12, 2023
USPS will increase the number of electric-powered trucks in its fleet and, starting in 2026, only purchase electric vehicles.
By Associated Press - December 24, 2022
The president has centered fusion, along with already viable clean energy sources such as wind and solar power, in his plan to get the United States to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
By Nick Vachon - December 14, 2022
The Biden administration continues investing in production of electric vehicle parts within the United States, and this time it includes a plant of newly unionized workers in Ohio.
By Oliver Willis - December 13, 2022
A former Congressman that is being charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to help the Venezuelan government under Nicolas Maduro had contact with multiple congressional Republicans and members of the Trump administration.
By Associated Press - December 07, 2022
A new report published by the Pew Research Center says the religiously unaffiliated are much more likely to say that climate change is an extreme or very serious problem.
By Associated Press - November 26, 2022
Former President Donald Trump’s administration dismantled EPA regulations, postponed meaningful progress on emissions reduction and mainstreamed climate denial.
By Adrian Cole - November 17, 2022
Democrat Summer Lee beat Republican Mike Doyle to represent Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District.
By Nick Vachon - November 10, 2022
The Biden administration has allocated more than $5.8 billion in federal funds to historically Black colleges and universities since 2021.
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