Pamela King
Legal Editor and Environmental Law Reporter at E&E News
@EENewsUpdates | @POLITICO legal editor and environmental law reporter ⚖️ (she/her) | send me tips: [email protected]
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Pamela King
Share A coalition of states has failed to raise a valid legal claim against Elon Musk and his project to shrink the federal government, the Trump administration told a federal court Friday. The administration’s motion to dismiss follows a request last month by New Mexico and other states to immediately stop Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from slashing federal funding and firing government workers.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Pamela King
Share Environmental groups are going to court against Elon Musk’s effort to gut the federal government by slashing funding and firing staff at agencies like the National Park Service. In their lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Sierra Club and other groups said actions by Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have harmed the public’s ability to enjoy the nation’s public lands.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Miranda Willson |Pamela King
Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down one of EPA’s long-standing tools for ensuring sewage treatment plants and industrial sites do not degrade water quality. The 5-4 ruling in San Francisco v. EPA blocks the agency from holding the West Coast city liable for sewage discharged from a treatment plant into the Pacific Ocean based on language in its current wastewater permit.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Pamela King
Share A federal judge in Washington has extended an order blocking the Trump administration from tying up federal loans and grants. Judge Loren AliKhan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction — the first order of its kind against the funding freeze and a signal that nonprofit groups challenging the pause are likely to prevail in court. “In the simplest terms, the freeze was ill-conceived from the beginning.
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2 months ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Pamela King
Share A federal judge in Washington said she is inclined to extend her order blocking the Trump administration’s pause on federal funding and grants.
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