Beginning September, the Outdoors Alliance for Kids (OAK) is launching its Every Kid Outdoors Month of Action. From September 3 to October 5, OAK members are organizing a range of events and actions to spread awareness and advocate for the Every Kid Outdoors program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Department of the Interior announced it will retain protections for 28 million acres of public lands within the Bristol Bay, Bering Sea Western Interior, East Alaska, Kobuk Seward, and the Ring of Fire regions of Alaska.
WASHINGTON, DC – CHIPS Communities United, a coalition of unions and community groups, raised concerns today about toxic “forever chemicals” in wastewater from semiconductor plants. Newly analyzed data from GlobalFoundries in Vermont revealed measurable levels of 17 different PFAS in wastewater. It is likely that other microchip factories release similar concentrations, but Vermont is the only state (we know of) that requires companies to report on PFAS in effluent.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Biden-Harris administration announced hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to build electric vehicle chargers across the country.
During a board meeting on Aug. 23, the utility announced its second rate increase this year, adding another 5.25% in increased electricity costs to consumer bills, in part to subsidize unproven small modular nuclear reactor technology that the utility is banking on rather than increasing investment in renewable energy and necessary transmission infrastructure.
Elba, AL – Two of the nation’s leading environmental leaders, Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University, and Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous will participate in a “Journey to Justice” tour on Tuesday August 27 in Elba, Alabama’s Black Shiloh community. Shiloh has been plagued with flooding. Residents believe the flooding is caused by a federally funded highway expansion project. Elba is Dr. Bullard’s hometown.
Butler, PA – Cleveland-Cliffs and the Department of Energy Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP), recently announced that the company’s Butler Works facility – the only American manufacturer of grain-oriented electrical steel, which is a critical material for the clean energy transition – has
Kansas City, Kansas– Ten scenarios for a 20 year Integrated Resources Plan (IRP) were presented to the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU) last night. The IRP should have provided affordable, reliable, least-risk scenarios to help BPU meet energy needs in the years to come.
TALENT, OR — As extreme weather, including scorching heat waves, threatens large parts of Oregon, Talent’s City Council voted yesterday to pass Resolution 2024-097-R, which encourages upgrades of homes and nonresidential buildings so they have modern, highly efficient appliances.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the D.C. District Court denied an attempt by Signal Peak Energy to force the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) to rush an environmental review of a proposed 175-million-ton expansion at the Bull Mountains coal mine in Montana — which aims to be the nation’s largest remaining underground coal mine.