York, NE -- Today, the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) is holding its lone public comment meeting along the proposed path of the Keystone XL pipeline. The meeting is offering Nebraskans the opportunity to debate whether it should grant TransCanada the permit necessary to construct the pipeline. While hundreds showed up to the meeting today, the Public Service Commission is only allowing fewer than 150 Nebraskans to speak.
Washington, DC -- Today, Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of the Interior to review the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Oil and Gas leasing program. According to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, the process will take two years. Trump will also order a review of marine monuments and existing offshore drilling regulations including the blowout preventer rule, put into place after the Deepwater Horizon disaster to prevent similar tragedies from occurring.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two days before thousands and thousands of people are expected to march for climate action in Washington, DC and across the country, the U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will meet with the board members of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers -- a trade group representing General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and others --to discuss dismantling lifesaving fuel and emissions saving protections.
Today, the Minnesota Department of Commerce submitted testimony to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on Enbridge’s certificate of need application for its proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline expansion project. The PUC will be accepting public comments over the next few months and is expected to make a decision next spring.