By Bitsy Skerry, regulatory policy associate for Public Citizen On March 10, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust held a hearing titled “Reining in the Administrative State: Reclaiming Congress’s Legislative Power.” The hearing shepherded a tale of two visions for our system of public…

By José Medina, Texas press officer for Public Citizen [This piece was first published in the Houston Chronicle] The cheapest megawatt of electricity is the one you don’t use. You did not hear this on the steps of the Texas Capitol when our state’s top elected officials were inaugurated…

By Hannah Saggau, Insurance Campaigner for Public Citizen “EACOP is a disaster. EACOP is a carbon bomb. EACOP is a climate hell — and EACOP is destroying our lives in Uganda and Tanzania.” These were the powerful words from Ugandan climate and human rights activist Hillary Innocent Taylor Seguya as…

By Candace L. Milner, J.D., Racial Equity Policy Associate for Public Citizen On the first day of his presidency, President Biden signed an executive order directing each federal agency to create and implement an equity action plan focus on championing racial equity throughout the work of the federal government. Last…

By Oliver Hicklin-Coorey, organizer with the Democracy is for People Campaign US democracy stood firm during the midterm elections. Several high-profile candidates who questioned the 2020 election results based on false allegations lost their races, but some of the biggest victories came in the form of ballot initiatives. In Michigan…

By DeeDee Belmares, Advisory Committee member & climate justice organizer for Public Citizen This op-ed first appeared in the San Antonio Express-News. Read it online here. Jan. 23 was not the best day for protecting San Antonians from pollution, but it was a good day. On that day, the CPS…

By Elias Hakim, campaign associate for Public Citizen This January marks 13 years since the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC removed restrictions on campaign spending to third-party actors so long as it is independent from candidates and parties, in the name of free speech. This reversed…

By Pada Schaffner and Aza Evans-Townsend, George Washington University students and Sunrise GW organizers Last summer, deadly heat waves made more likely by climate change swept across Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America. Antarctic glaciers hemorrhaged ice faster than they have in millennia. Dozens of species were declared extinct…

By Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen There is a direct line from the U.S. Supreme Court’s horrific Citizens United decision — issued 13 years ago this Saturday — to the rise of fascistic movements threatening the very existence of our democracy. In entrenching the ‘right’ of corporations and the…