WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The House Judiciary Committee released the following written testimony by Deepinder Mayell, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, from a Feb. 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II": * * * Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Raskin and distinguished members of Congress, thank you for the invitation to testify today. My name is Deepinder Mayell and I am honored to serve as executive director of th more PR

OLYMPIA, Washington, Feb. 12 -- Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following news release: * * * AG Brown condemns EPA's illegal rescission of greenhouse gas pollution endangerment finding * Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final rule rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which determined that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles contribute to air pollution that dr more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 12 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: * * * AG Nessel Issues Statement Condemning the Illegal Recission of EPA's Landmark 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding * LANSING -Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final rule rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which determined that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicle more PR

FAIRFAX, Virginia, Feb. 13 -- Americans for Limited Government issued the following statement on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * ALG Praises President Trump And EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin For Ending Carbon Endangerment Finding Error Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin for ending the 2009 carbon endangerment finding: "The carbon endangerm more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The American Action Forum issued the following commentary on Feb. 12, 2026, by Shuting Pomerleau, director of energy and environmental policy: * * * Can U.S. Nuclear Waste Management Keep Up With the Nuclear Renaissance? Executive Summary * To accelerate the U.S. nuclear renaissance, the Trump Administration is pursuing a multi-pronged approach to manage nuclear waste, which includes investing in nuclear waste recycling technologies, funding research and development in more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Feb. 12 [Category: Sociological] -- Americans for Prosperity posted the following news release: * * * Americans for Prosperity Supports EPA's Major Deregulatory Action * Feb 12, 2026 by AFP Americas for Prosperity (AFP) applauds today's action by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to bring the agency's regulations in line with clear statutory mandates. Our common stance, clearly articulated by our sister organization, Americans for Prosperity Foundation, in regu more PR

SAN DIEGO, California, Feb. 12 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Public Health Association posted the following news release: * * * APHA and several health leaders say endangerment finding repeal disregards health harms * Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its repeal of the Endangerment Finding, EPA's longstanding, science-based finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. The action also includes the elimination of federal standards to  more PR

PHOENIX, Arizona, Feb. 13 -- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes issued the following statement on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * Attorney General Mayes Condemns the Illegal Rescission of EPA's Landmark 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding Rushed Rescission Rule Ignores Decades of Law and Science, Prioritizing Profit over the Health and Welfare of All Americans * Attorney General Kris Mayes today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: * * * Barrasso Slams Democrats for DHS Shutdown * "Democrats don't seem to be determined in any way to fund the Department of Homeland Security. They seem determined, however, to protect illegal immigrant criminals. The goal of the Democrat party is to abolish ICE and to defund American security." WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Senate Majority Whip, today spoke on the Senate Fl more PR

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 12 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * California Attorney General Rob Bonta Denounces EPA's Rescission of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, Vows to Sue * Federal rollback violates well-settled law, putting fossil fuel industry's profits over American's health and safety OAKLAND -California Attorney General Rob Bonta today denounced the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final rule rescinding the 2009 Endang more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Feb. 12 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ballard Spahr, a law firm, posted the following news release: * * * Class Action Litigation Team Joins Ballard Spahr, Firm Opens San Francisco Office * For media inquiries, please contact Will Ashenmacher at 612.371.5792. Ballard Spahr has opened an office in San Francisco -its 19th location-with the addition of a four-member litigation team led by Partners Stephanie A. Sheridan and Meegan Brooks. The group-which joins from  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-New Jersey, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * Pallone Blasts Trump Administration for Repealing Endangerment Finding Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Trump Administration finalizing the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) longstanding and legally affirmed "endang more PR

PHOENIX, Arizona, Feb. 12 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Goldwater Institute posted the following news: * * * Court-Appointed Monitor Spends Tens of Millions While Leaving Taxpayers in the Dark * In 2007, a traffic stop in Cave Creek, Arizona, set in motion a chain of events that would ultimately redefine the balance of power between local voters and the federal judiciary in the Grand Canyon State. Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres, a legal visitor to the United States with a valid visa, was  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The Capital Research Center posted the following news: * * * CRC News: Congress looks at left-wing street chaos CRC and InfluenceWatch help Congress and the media "follow the money" behind left-wing protests, teacher union mischief and more. Fox News Channel--House committee investigates left-wing organizations 'sowing chaos' across US: The House Ways and Means Committee is holding a Tuesday hearing to expose left-wing nonprofit groups BreakThrough and Tricontinental,  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48302) on Jan. 22, 2026, entitled "Critical Minerals on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's Role and Issues for Congress" by natural resources policy specialists Caitlin Keating-Bitonti and Laura B. Comay. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY The first and second Trump Administrations and the Biden Administration have issued executive orders announcing U.S.  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Sounds The Alarm On President Trump's Threats To Election Integrity * February 11, 2026 Durbin: The President's aims are clear. He wants to make the case for the 'Big Lie' that the 2020 election was stolen from him so he can assuage his fragile ego and justify directly interfering in the 2026 and 2028 elections. WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Wh more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2026: * * * Durbin Sounds The Alarm On President Trump's Threats To Election Integrity In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sounded the alarm on the Trump Administration's threats to election integrity. Durbin began his remarks by commenting on the more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 13 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * Trump EPA Repeals Endangerment Finding, Abandoning Responsibility to Protect Americans from Climate Pollution By repealing the endangerment finding, EPA is rejecting settled law and science to benefit polluters * Washington, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its repeal of the endangerment finding and the rollback of climate emissions standards fo more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Lung Association posted the following news release: * * * Health Leaders: Endangerment Finding Repeal Fundamentally Disregards Health Harms * Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its repeal of the Endangerment Finding, EPA's longstanding, science-based finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. The action also includes the elimination of federal standards to limit greenhouse gas emiss more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 [Category: Energy] -- The American Energy Alliance posted the following news release: * * * Historic Victory: President Trump Rescinds 2009 GHG Endangerment Finding * WASHINGTON DC (2/12/26) - Today, President Donald J. Trump stood with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to announce the repeal of the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding. The EPA announced its proposal to rescind the Endangerment Finding in July 2025. American Energy Alliance President Tom Pyle released th more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: * * * House Passes Goodlander-Backed Legislation to End President Trump's Senseless, Costly, and Dangerous Trade Wars * Washington, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander joined with a bipartisan coalition of her colleagues to pass H.J.Res.72, paving the way to end President Trump's senseless, costly, and dangerous trade wars. "Tonight, the People's House did right by the American peop more PR

NEW YORK, Feb. 12 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch posted the following news: * * * Hungary: Blocking Lawsuits Undermines Rule of Law * (London, February 12, 2026) - Hungary's government dealt a severe blow to the rule of law by issuing a decree that terminates ongoing court cases challenging a tax on municipalities, Human Rights Watch said today. The move sets a dangerous precedent for executive interference with the courts and the separation of powers. "Shutting down court more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 [Category: Political] -- Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly the NARAL Pro-Choice America) posted the following news release: * * * ICYMI: New Nondisclosure Rules Further Isolate the Supreme Court * New York Times: How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive Last week, the New York Times reported that Chief Justice John Roberts began quietly requiring Supreme Court law clerks and staff to sign nondisclosure agreements after several noteworthy leaks more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The House Judiciary Committee released the following written testimony by Graham Linehan, a journalist and award-winning comedy writer and director, from a Feb. 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II": * * * Hello. My name is Graham Linehan. I spent thirty years writing comedy for British television. It was a career I loved. That career ended when I began noticing that women were losing their livelihoods, their social circl more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Kaine, Klobuchar, Warner, Schumer & Wyden Praise House Passage of Legislation to Repeal Trump's Tariffs on Canada * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Mark R. Warner (D-VA), as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden (D-OR), praised the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of leg more PR

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 [Category: Environment] -- The Natural Resources Defense Council posted the following news release on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * A Costly Move: EPA Abandons Endangerment Finding WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will rescind a 2009 finding that climate change is a threat to public health and welfare. The determination, known as the endangerment finding, was based on years of evidence, and is core to the federal standards to curb greenhouse gas more PR

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 [Category: Environment] -- The Natural Resources Defense Council posted the following news release on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * EPA Unravels Climate Protections NRDC will challenge the Trump EPA's unscientific and illegal repeal of the endangerment finding and elimination of clean vehicle standards. * WASHINGTON, D.C. - After a year of deadly floods, devastating wildfires, excruciating heat waves, and a growing number of unnatural disasters, the U.S. Environmental Protection Ag more PR

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 13 -- New Jersey League of Conservation Voters, an organization that says it works to elect environmentally responsible candidates to state and local offices, issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * New Jersey LCV Launches 2026 'Common Agenda' with Advocates and Legislators to Protect Working Families, Advance Clean Energy and Safeguard Democracy Today, the New Jersey LCV joined with partners and legislative champions to launch its Common Agenda for more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History * Trump Admin Eliminates Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, off-cycle credits, start-stop feature WASHINGTON - Alongside President Trump in the White House's Roosevelt Room, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the single largest deregulatory action in U.S more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 13 -- Save the Sound issued the following news release: * * * Save the Sound Profoundly Concerned over EPA's Recission of Endangerment Finding Decision will exacerbate climate-related costs, consequences for environmental and public health * Larchmont, NY -- Save the Sound is profoundly disappointed in the Environmental Protection Agency's decision today to rescind the federal Endangerment Finding, which since 2009 has been the lynchpin in the federal government more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * Schumer, Whitehouse: EPA Abandons Its Duty to Protect the American People Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), issued the following statement after Environmental Protec more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Lee Leads Amicus Brief Against Counting Late Ballots * WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) today led an amicus curiae brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to secure our elections and respect the founders' original intent by excluding late ballots from being counted if received after the federally established Election Day. Senator Lee serves as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Judici more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Markey Condemns Trump EPA's Final Rule to Repeal Endangerment Finding * Washington (February 12, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule that would formally repeal the 2009 endangerment finding-the legal and regulator more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48520) on Feb. 11, 2026, entitled "Telecommunications: CRS Products" by senior research librarian Rachael D. Roan: * * * SUMMARY Telecommunications infrastructure and programs have a long history of congressional interest and present several issues for policymakers, including those related to fifth-generation (5G) and next-generation technologies, broadband deployment, emergency communication more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Trump undermines foundational climate ruling in yet another move to cut corners for the coal and fossil fuel industries * SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Thursday, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a suite of rollbacks that bolster the coal and fossil fuel industries, including the reversal of a ruling that has formed the backbone of climate advocacy for nearly two decades. Stemming fro more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 [Category: Government/Public Administration] -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors issued the following news: * * * U.S. Conference of Mayors Statement on EPA's Decision to No Longer Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions * Washington, D.C.- Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Agency will no longer regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, claiming that Congress never explicitly gave them the authority to do so under the Clean Air Act. This contradict more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization released the following testimony by Kenneth Smith, executive director of education service at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Benefits Administration, from a Feb. 4, 2026, joint hearing with the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity entitled "Digital G.I. Bill Undelivered: Contracting Challenges and the Need for Acquisition Reform": * * * Good morning, Chairmen Barrett and Van Orden, Ran more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Warner, Kaine and Colleagues Praise House Passage of Legislation to Repeal Trump's Tariffs on Canada * WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), as well as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden (D-OR), praised the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of legislation to repeal P more PR