"With regard to the Olympic Games, the IOC will continue to take whatever measures needed to safeguard clean athletes, clean sport and good governance.
The support of a strong environmental agenda by our elected officials is essential to safeguarding clean air and water.
Introduced by Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, this bill (H.R. 1581) would eliminate protection for wilderness study areas and Forest Service roadless areas -- exactly the kind of healthy, undisturbed lands that provide and safeguard clean air and water resources, supply habitat for plants and animals, and offer Americans a place to get outdoors and kayak, camp, fish, or hike.
Now Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, is pushing a measure that would require mining companies to pay a royalty equal to what other industries have been paying for decades, provide safeguards for clean water and give communities and agencies a say about where mining is permitted.
With more than half of all toxic water pollution in the country coming from coal-fired power plants, these safeguards will clean up our waterways and save lives.
If there is any silver lining to today's ruling, it is that it serves as a warning against expansive trade deals like the TPP that would further undermine safeguards for wildlife, clean air, and clean water.
These suits aimed to dismantle critical public health safeguards including the Clean Water Rule that would protect drinking water sources for 117 million Americans and the Mercury and Air Toxic rule that protects our kids and other vulnerable citizens from highly damaging pollution.
If it put only a fraction of the time and money it spends on fighting environmental safeguards into actually pursing clean energy solutions, we'd all be better off.
Pruitt has also targeted clean water safeguards.
The EPA must enact strong clean water safeguards for power plants this September.
