Washington, DC -- Today, JPMorgan Chase released its 2030 interim emissions “intensity” targets for its financing of oil and gas, electric power, and auto manufacturing, following the bank’s October commitment to align its financing activities with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
La Comisión de Reglas y Administración del Senado aprobó anoche la S.1, la Ley Para El Pueblo, y la envió al pleno para su votación final. El Sierra Club insta al Senado a acabar con el filibusterismo parlamentario en su estado actual.
DULUTH, MN -- Environmental groups and clean energy advocates have released a scorecard evaluating Minnesota Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to educate the public on how the utility intends to provide energy to the Northland for the next 15 years.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Late yesterday, the Senate Rules and Administration Committee advanced S.1, the For the People Act, to the floor for a final vote. The For The People Act is a landmark democracy reform package that is designed to create nationwide automatic and same day voter registration, strengthen anti-corruption laws to curb the influence of corporate polluters, put an end to partisan gerrymandering, restore voting rights for 1.7 million formerly incarcerated people, and more.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) submitted notice of its intent to file an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the retirement of the Cumberland Fossil Plant in Cumberland City, Tennessee. Through the upcoming EIS process, TVA will identify the timeline to retire the plant’s two coal units and if any replacement generation is needed.
This afternoon, after seven years of frontline community activism, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) passed the Warehouse Indirect Source Rule (ISR) to address the region’s serious air quality problems by cutting pollution from the trucks traveling to and from warehouses, electrifying warehouses, and creating local clean energy jobs. The ISR is the first step in eliminating toxic emissions from one of the nation’s largest and most profitable industries.
Saint Paul, MN – Today, a Minnesota administrative law judge strongly affirmed the state’s effort to adopt Clean Cars Minnesota, a set of standards that would require new cars sold in the state to emit less climate-disrupting pollution and increase the availability and sales of zero-emission cars.
CHARLESTON, WV -- Yesterday, the Sierra Club submitted expert testimony of Rachel Wilson of Synapse Energy Economics with the West Virginia Public Service Commission (WVPSC).
Today, the Dayton City Commission passed a resolution establishing a goal of powering their city with one hundred percent clean, renewable energy. The specifics of the resolution include securing or purchasing one hundred percent renewable energy for municipal electricity consumption by 2035, community-wide electricity supply by 2040, and all energy-use sectors including transportation by 2050.