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• DOGE Still Lives, and We Will Continue To Track It
  While Elon Musk claims to be departing from DOGE, the people he tapped to execute his vision for the federal government largely remain in place. Much of DOGE’s remaining staff and leadership, such as figures like Antonio Gracias, maintain extensive ties to Musk’s corporate empire, with many of them having come to DOGE directly from […]
• Trump Administration Drops Defense of Rule Allowing Retirement Plans to Provide More Sustainable Investment Options
  The Trump administration announced Wednesday, May 28, that it plans to overturn a Department of Labor rule allowing managers of private retirement plans to consider environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions and voting on shareholder proposals. Lawyers with the Department of Labor informed the US Court of Appeals that it […]
• Mahmoud Khalil Demands Info on Trump Administration Collusion with Anti-Palestinian Doxxing Groups
  Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil today submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records of the Trump administration’s communications with the anti-Palestinian organizations that targeted him prior to his arrest. Mr. Khalil remains detained in Louisiana more than two months after federal agents abducted him, acting on information and misinformation that appears to have […]
• Family Seeks Big Oil Accountability in Wrongful Death Lawsuit for Climate Related Death
  The daughter of a Seattle woman, Juliana Leon, who died during the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave, today brought a wrongful death suit alleging that Big Oil companies negligently caused her mother’s death. Aaron Regunberg, accountability project director for Public Citizen’s Climate Program, issued the following statement: “Lethal climate disasters are the foreseeable, and foreseen, […]
• Supreme Court Limits Scope of Nation’s Bedrock Environmental Law
  The Supreme Court today severely limited the scope of the nation’s landmark environmental law in a case that could give new life to a Utah oil train project.For nearly 50 years the National Environmental Policy Act has required federal agencies to analyze the potential environmental harms of a proposed project, engage with communities that could […]
• Trump’s Plan to Land SpaceX Rockets in Pacific Wildlife Refuge Spurs Lawsuit
  The Center for Biological Diversity has sued the U.S. Air Force and Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to release public records detailing the Trump administration’s plans to build landing pads for SpaceX rockets in sensitive marine habitat in the Pacific Ocean.In March the Air Force announced plans to begin reviewing the potential environmental harms […]