President Donald Trump today released his Fiscal Year 2021 budget request. The request makes deep cuts in funding for a number of programs including several aimed at protecting the environment, ensuring worker safety, investing in innovation and boosting American competitiveness, and helping workers and communities impacted by the shift to cleaner, cheaper forms of energy.

The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The PRO Act is designed to ensure workers can band together to negotiate better wages and safer working conditions.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and other leaders of the House democratic caucus today unveiled an infrastructure framework.

The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a rule gutting the Obama administration’s Clean Water Rule. The Obama rule was repealed last year and will be replaced by the rule finalized today. The new rule removes environmental protections from many of the wetlands and waterways protected under the Clean Water Act.

After a ruling from a judge in Marion County that will force the Oregon Secretary of State to allow two clean energy ballot measures to continue, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Oregon State Policy Coordinator Ranfis Villatoro:

The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources today reported out the Offshore Wind Jobs and Opportunity Act. The bill will establish an offshore wind career training grant program.

The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources today reported out the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2019, which reauthorizes the Abandoned Mine Land Program. The bill will help coal communities adapt to changing economics, while reclaiming their natural landscape.

Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Doug Jones (D-AL), Mark Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Bob Casey (D-PA) Friday introduced the Black Lung Benefits Disability Trust Fund Solvency Act of 2020, a bill to extend the black lung excise tax through the end of 2030. The tax provides revenue to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, which helps coal miners with black lung get the medical care they need.

The Oregon Secretary of State’s office has rejected the text of Initiative Petitions 2020-048 and 2020-049—ballot proposals that would boost clean energy and clean up Oregon’s air—for including language to ensure the jobs created by the initiatives were good-paying jobs.

The 2019 rollback spells bad news for the climate, economy, and the health of workers

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final rule dramatically weakening the Risk Management Program (RMP) for industrial facilities that handle dangerous chemicals.

As a coalition of the nation’s largest labor unions and environmental groups, collectively representing millions of members and supporters, we wrote to House leadership to urge the to swiftly bring up several key items for floor consideration.