League Submits Comments on NEPA Regulations (Legal Document) 11/16/2021 The Leauge submitted comments regarding the Council on Environmental Quality's rulemaking on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Modifications were made to NEPA by the Trump…
League calls on President Biden to cease sale of Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf for oil and gas development (Legal Document) 11/10/2021 The League joined over 250 organizations calling on President Biden to cancel Lease Sale 257 in the Gulf of Mexico
Climate Change is a Public Health Crisis (Blog) 10/18/2021 People often refer to climate change as an “existential threat.” This makes sense; our existence is being threatened. But as a health professional, I’d like to move away from the big, existential…
Enhanced Privacy Protections Delay the Release of Census Data (Blog) 8/11/2021 In 2020, we experienced significant delays in the receipt of census data. This is largely due to an updated privacy protection model, which ensures greater confidentiality for respondents while…
Civil Rights Groups, Civic Organizations, Tribal and Local Governments Secure Broad Resolution in Census Lawsuit (Press Release) 4/22/2021 Stipulated dismissal guarantees Census Bureau will not release rushed apportionment numbers, will not provide states with data to exclude noncitizens from redistricting, and will continue to provide…
LWV Files Amicus in Ohio Census Case, Challenging Rushed Data Delivery (Press Release) 3/15/2021 LWV of the United States filed a friend of the court brief in Ohio v. Coggins, a suit brought by the state of Ohio and Ohio’s secretary of state to rush the delivery of census data for congressional…
A Threat to America’s Wetlands: Center for Biological Diversity et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Blog) 3/12/2021 A December 2020 decision from the EPA handed permit approval rights to the state of Florida, allowing the state to approve wetland projects without EPA review.…
League Urges U.S. Senate to Extend Census Reporting Deadlines (Legal Document) 11/19/2020 LWVUS is urging Congress to extend the statutory reporting deadlines that the U.S. Census must follow when sending apportionment numbers to the President and sending redistricting data to the states…
Judge Rules That Census Must Not be Rushed in Victory for Civil Rights Groups, Civic Organizations, and Local Governments (Press Release) 9/25/2020 The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered the Trump administration to halt its rush to end the 2020 Census, extending deadline for counting to October 31.
Federal Judge Blocks Efforts to Shorten Census Timeline (Press Release) 9/6/2020 A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order in National Urban League v. Ross against the winding down of in-person counting for the 2020 Census.