ANCHORAGE (AK)—More than a dozen groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to protect Alaska fisheries, wildlife, jobs, communities, and ways of life from the proposed Pebble mine.
The lawsuit is one of three charging the EPA with breaking the law when it withdrew a 2014 Proposed Determination setting out protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska. The EPA abandoned protections for the Bristol Bay watershed in late summer. According to news reports, the decision to withdraw protections occurred after President Trump met with Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy in June.
DULUTH, MN / SUPERIOR, WI -- The Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant proposed for construction in Superior, Wisconsin, will receive public scrutiny in the coming weeks. The $700 million project, put forth by Minnesota Power and Dairyland Power, would commit to decades of burning fossil fuel in the Northland.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Sierra Club launched a digital advertising campaign calling on five senators and President Trump to address the climate crisis impacting communities across the country. The videos pressure President Trump and U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) to support a 100% clean energy economy.
WASHINGTON, DC - Joe Biden (31%, +1 point) holds steady in a narrowing lead among climate voters as the Sierra Club releases the fourth round of its tracking poll conducted by Morning Consult. In the wake of high profile candidate climate forums, climate voters’ support for Elizabeth Warren (25%, +4 percentage points from last month) continues to rise, positioning her solidly as these voters’ #2 pick. Overall, Bernie Sanders stays in place at #3 among climate voters with 19% (-1 point). When first and second choice preferences are added together, Warren narrowly edges out Biden among climate voters (Warren with 49%, Biden with 47%).
The Environmental Law & Policy Center, Iowa Environmental Council, and Sierra Club agreed to a proposed partial settlement in the Alliant Energy rate case being heard by the Iowa Utilities Board this week. The proposed settlement, joined by ten of the 14 intervening parties, including the Consumer Advocate and large energy consumers, addressed several key issues in the rate case, including energy generation from Alliant’s coal plants, rate structures impacting energy efficiency, rate increases and others.
Dupuyer, MT-- Tomorrow, Interior Secretary Bernhardt will host a media event with Rep. Greg Gianforte in Dupuyer on the subject of grizzly bear management. The press event comes after Bernhardt implemented substantial rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act in August and assisted the finalizing of the delisting of grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region in 2017. Bernhardt’s record in Montana underlines his ties to extractive industry in the state, efforts to undermine wildlife protections and growing questions of ethics.
MARINA, Calif.— The Trump administration today dismissed protests and made a formal decision to open 725,500 acres of public lands and mineral estate across California’s Central Coast and the Bay Area to new oil and gas drilling and fracking.
The public lands the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has earmarked for leasing are in the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Stanislaus.
Washington, DC -- Late yesterday, it was announced that Energy Secretary Rick Perry will be resigning from office. Perry has repeatedly sought avenues to force taxpayers to illegally bail out uneconomical coal and nuclear plants only to see these efforts rejected. Perry had also suggested that fossil fuel development will decrease the number of sexual assaults.
Jackson, WY-- Late yesterday, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced that chronic wasting disease (CWD) was confirmed in a mule deer in the Wyoming Range mountains. The positive test signals that the always-fatal wildlife disease has officially hit an area that encompasses three entire winter elk feedgrounds: South Park, Horse Creek, and Camp Creek; and a portion of Dell Creekfeedground at Riling Draw road.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, E&E News reported that new documents show that the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs deleted language about how climate change poses a "serious challenge” and a link to the Fourth National Climate Assessment from a proposal to preempt California's clean cars program.