STUDENTS, PARENTS, TEACHERS AND CLIMATE ADVOCATES CHEER LA UNIFIED'S DECISION TO SUPPORT 100% CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY Unanimous School Board commitment Follows Months of Grassroots Campaigning After many months of a diverse, grassroots campaign effort driven by climate advocates, students, parents and teachers--that involved collaboration with school board leaders-- LA Unified School District committed to transition to 100% clean electricity by 2030, and off of fossil fuels for all their energy needs including heating, cooking and transportation by 2040. LA unified School District is the largest energy consumer in the County of Los Angeles. Transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy will be a huge step in helping the City and County of LA meet its goal of being carbon neutral by 2045.
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A wide ranging environmental coalition filed comments late yesterday against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) proposed rule to roll back essential elements of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) that give small clean energy resources equal access to electricity markets.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Holiday Carolers to Bring Festive Anti-Line 3 Message to MN Pollution Control Agency
This Wednesday afternoon, a group of carolers will gather at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) office to bring holiday cheer and a message to stop the Line 3 pipeline.
Odessa, Texas -- A settlement of a lawsuit challenging unpermitted flaring under the Clean Air Act from the James Lake Gas Plant in West Texas has secured penalties and significant pollution reductions for a plant that state and federal regulators have failed to address.
Missoula, MT-- Tomorrow, Governor Bullock’s Grizzly Bear Advisory Council will meet to “address challenges and to help set a long term vision for grizzly bear management and conservation in Montana.” The topic for the Dec. 4th meeting is conflict prevention, and it is the third time the council has met since October. Montanans have made significant strides in recent decades to prevent conflicts between bears and people.
Pinedale, WY-- Today, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) will host its first public meeting to announce recommendations of the state’s Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Working Group. The Working Group was formed earlier this year to revise Wyoming’s CWD management plan. CWD is the always-fatal wildlife disease that is spreading rapidly across the state and severely threatening Wyoming’s renowned deer, elk and moose populations.
Geneva, Switzerland-- Today, during the third convention on the Minamata Treaty on Mercury, the Zero Mercury Working Group, The Beautywell Project and Sierra Club released results from their tests of mercury levels in Amazon and eBay skin-lightening products-- revealing that 60% of the tested products contained illegal levels of the chemical. The groups assessed 158 products from 12 countries. They found that of those, 60% all exceeded the one part per million limit adopted as U.S law, and the soon-to-be-implemented global limit for the 128 countries who signed the UN Minamata treaty on Mercury.
La ONU publicó hoy su informe anual sobre la “brecha de emisiones”, el cual revela que las temperaturas globales aumentarán casi 4 grados centígrados para final de siglo.
Augusta, ME--Yesterday, Indigenous community members and allies delivered a letter to Governor Mills asking her to withdraw support for the controversial Central Maine Transmission (CMP) corridor that will import Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts. The letter debunks the myth that large-scale hydro is a renewable resource and that instead, it destroys our rivers and ecosystems.
Washington, DC -- Today, the UN released its annual “emissions gap” report, which detailed that global temperatures are set to rise by nearly 4 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. If governments fail to act, scientists note this could result in global catastrophic effects, including coastal cities being inundated with flooding, unbearable severe heat, and coral reefs potentially dissolving.