Salt Lake City - The EPA on Tuesday proposed rescinding a Biden-era ruling to reclassify Utah's Wasatch Front from “serious” nonattainment of the 2015 ozone standards to mere “moderate” nonattainment, significantly decreasing required pollution reductions. The proposal downplays local emissions, shifting blame to foreign sources instead of reining in local emissions. EPA has issued similar proposed rulings in other states across the West.
Legislation from Rep. Westerman would have drastically weakened bedrock environmental law
Boston - Today, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of renewable energy developers, temporarily blocking a number of the Trump administration’s relentless and aggressive attacks on the industry.
NAOMA, W.Va. – Today, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia ruled in favor of Coal River Mountain Watch, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Appalachian Voices, and Sierra Club, blocking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant a Clean Water Act permit for valley fills associated with the Turkeyfoot Surface Mine.
Washington, D.C. - Donald Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to give the coal industry access to potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, even as the industry has been in decline for nearly two decades.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Today, Clean Grid Alliance, Fresh Energy, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, and Sierra Club (collectively the Clean Energy Organizations or CEOs) filed comments at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission regarding Minnesota Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) (Docket No. 25-127).
RICHMOND, Va. - Today, several environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Clean Water Act permit for the controversial Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, or SSEP pipeline
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Washington, DC - Sixteen health and environmental groups have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency outlining severe flaws in its rule to repeal the Endangerment Finding and motor vehicle climate pollution standards and describing how the Clean Air Act requires the agency to reconsider that damaging action.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate voted to approve a controversial proposal, backed by the Trump Administration, to allow toxic sulfide mining in the watershed of one of the country’s most visited wilderness areas.