CLEAN AIR REGULATIONS ARE NECESSARY

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Thursday, April 5th, 2018
By Nancy Levine
CALL OR RESISTBOT: DEMAND THAT THE EPA PROTECT CLEAN AIR CAR EMISSIONS STANDARDS.

Any time now, the EPA under Scott Pruitt’s lead is expected to announce significantly weakened standards for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy for automobiles. While he is expected to frame this as reducing a regulatory burden on manufacturers, the result would be extremely environmentally costly – significantly more gasoli…

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The Trump administration, handing automakers a victory, is preparing to announce an effort to weaken strict Obama-era pollution standards.
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DEMAND PRUITT’S RESIGNATION FROM EPA

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: April 4th, 2018
By Nancy Levine
CALL OR RESISTBOT: DEMAND SCOTT PRUITT RESIGN AS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR.
Scott Pruitt, the climate change-denying Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has repeatedly demonstrated that he cannot be trusted with management of the EPA or taxpayer dollars. In his first year at the EPA, Pruitt spent more than $163,000 in taxpayer dollars on first class and military travel and order…

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is fending off accusations that he misused taxpayer funds and maintained improper ties to…
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DEMAND CENSUS INCLUDE LGBTQ+

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018
CALL or RESISTBOT: Demand the census count our LGBTQ+ population.
By Nancy Levine
The once-a-decade United States Census provides policymakers with essential information about the demographic makeup of our nation. Census counts inform everything from allocation of federal funding to states to enforcement of anti-discrimination laws like the Fair Housing Act. Additionally, public health and social science researchers use census data…

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Advocates are calling for a congressional oversight hearing after LGBTQ questions were quickly removed from a draft of the 2020 Census.
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