Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the recipients of the first round of grants awarded through the $2 billion Community Change Grant Program, an Inflation Reduction Act fund that amounts to the single largest investment in environmental justice ever to go directly to communities.
Washington, DC – Late last night, Congressional Republican leaders canceled a vote on the FY2025 Energy and Water Appropriations bill and pulled the measure from the House floor. Today, the House is considering FY25 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. Both bills, ripe with poison pill riders and attacks on unrelated Biden administration climate policies, would make drastic cuts to the EPA and other agencies.
Washington, D.C. – Today, four leading environmental, clean energy and climate organizations — the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund, the NRDC Action Fund, the Sierra Club, and Clean Energy for American Action (CE4A Action) — endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President. The Biden-Harris administration has done far more to address the climate crisis and environmental injustice than any administration in our nation’s history.
Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of 25 applicants who will receive Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program implementation awards. The grants will go to state, local, and regional entities on the frontlines of fighting climate pollution.
Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overturning the Chevron doctrine, a long-standing principle that allowed agencies to interpret the laws that they implement—from those ensuring clean air and water, to those governing telecommunications and medical safety—and required courts to defer to their reasonable interpretations.
Washington, D.C. – Today, the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing on growth in demand for electric power, citing increased domestic manufacturing, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), and digitalization.
Washington, DC – Today, the Biden administration announced actions to boost domestic solar manufacturing and deployment of American-made solar panels, including closing the Trump-era Section 201 tariff exemption for imported bifacial, or double-sided, solar panels. These bifacial modules now account for more than 98 percent of US imports, resulting in less than 2 percent of imports being subjected to Section 201 duties.
Washington, DC – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $7 billion in funding awarded to states, territories, municipalities, and eligible nonprofits through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund’s Solar for All program.
Washington, DC – This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has denied a petition to remove stationary combustion turbines from the list of sources subject to regulation for emissions of air toxics, maintaining public health protections for communities near these facilities. As a result of denying this petition, stationary combustion turbines will continue to be required to comply with national limits on hazardous air pollutants under section 112 of the Clean Air Act.
Washington, DC — Today, the Sierra Club announced its endorsement of Ruben Gallego in the race to be the next United States Senator from Arizona, citing Gallego’s record and commitment to climate issues and advancing environmental justice.
Washington, DC – Today, Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan will visit Charlotte, North Carolina to announce $20 billion in funding will be awarded through two Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund competitions to advance clean technology projects in communities across the country.
Washington, DC – A new report released this week by the Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis at American University shows that, if successful, Congressional Republicans’ effort to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) clean energy credits would reduce our nation’s GDP by 2 percent.