Boston — Today, Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg announced new draft rules that would allow the state pension fund to vote against directors at companies that are not aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement. The fund controls $95.7 billion invested across over 11,000 public companies.
With a congressional vote expected in the coming days, local community and faith leaders will join together on Thursday, November 18 at 10:00am outside of the office of U.S. Representative Kurt Schrader to urge passage of the Build Back Better Act. Schrader and several colleagues issued a joint statement promising support for the legislation no later than this week. Yet the 5th District congressman has wavered in his commitment in recent days, leading constituents to formally call on Schrader to “keep your word to help Oregon build back better.”
Local residents and community advocates of Southwest Louisiana led an outdoor press conference near the Golden Nugget Casino and Resort, calling for federal, state, and local officials attending the “World LNG & Gas Series: Americas Summit & Exhibition” to seek community input and involvement and place people over profits. The press conference also included a media tour to where new facilities are proposed for construction and expansion, including Magnolia, Cameron, Lake Charles and Driftwood LNG.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Six Texas-based U.S. House Democrats — Rep. Henry Cuellar, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, Rep. Sylvia Garcia, Rep. Marc Veasey, and Rep. Filemon Vela — are threatening to halt progress on the most important climate legislation in U.S. history, and derail vital investments in clean energy, clean transportation, and environmental justice in Texas communities.
Yesterday, the fossil fuel company Air Products announced plans for a $4.5 billion “blue hydrogen” plant and accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) facility for Ascension Parish. Parish officials, Governor John Bel Edwards, and Air Products claim that hydrogen and CCS are climate solutions that will produce low-carbon fuel, but fail to acknowledge that blue hydrogen is derived from methane, which is 20 percent dirtier than burning gas or even coal, and methane is more than 80 percent more potent than carbon in warming our climate during the time it’s in the atmosphere.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A premature attempt to vote on the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure legislation in the House of Representatives did not happen, putting back on track President Biden’s bold Build Back Better agenda, including historic climate investments.
MEMO: Rushed vote on bipartisan bill set to fail over climate; Build Back Better Act is a must. The bipartisan infrastructure bill is on the verge of being voted down in the short term due in significant part to its failure to tackle the climate crisis without a companion reconciliation bill. Once again, Capitol Hill is being forced to reckon with “No Climate, No Deal.”
As Congress Prepares to Move Forward with Reconciliation Bill, Nonprofits and Legislators in Arizona Urge Electric Sector Decarbonization Through a Clean Electricity Payment Program (CEPP)
A regional coalition of conservation groups commented on PacifiCorp’s 2021 Integrated Resource Plan that was filed today in the six states the utility serves, highlighting the plan’s failure to meet the recommendations of global scientists to transition away from all fossil fuels, as the utility intends to keep coal and gas generation in its resource mix well into the 2040s.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Whip Clyburn, and the entire Democratic leadership team in the House delivered victory by securing full Democratic support for a historic $3.5 trillion budget resolution. Passage of the resolution was a crucial first step toward delivering bold investments at the scale of the crises our communities face.
WASHINGTON, DC -- This afternoon, the House passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, a crucial step toward delivering bold investments at the scale of the crises our communities face. Sierra Club emphasizes that any vote on the bipartisan infrastructure proposal must be preceded by passage of the reconciliation bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nine House Democrats have threatened to halt progress on the most important climate legislation in U.S. history, and the only potential vehicle for major action on climate, care, jobs, and justice in near term view. This comes during the very same week when the IPCC warned that the extreme weather events we’re already experiencing -- including historic droughts and floods, superstorms, record-breaking wildfires, and unprecedented coastal flooding -- will continue to rapidly worsen unless the world cuts all carbon pollution in half by 2031.