WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler confirmed that the Trump administration will move to revoke California’s waiver under the Clean Air Act. The waiver allows the state to set stronger fuel efficiency standards. This all comes as the Trump administration moves to roll back the clean car standards for light-duty vehicles this spring.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, a Shell executive said that electricity could squeeze out oil and gas as the main source of fuel for transportation in the next twenty years, and that with its own customers, the company is seeing significant shifts to electricity whenever possible. Shell has recently invested relatively small sums of money into electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Earlier today, clean air, climate justice, and community advocates hosted a people’s forum on TECO’s plans for their Big Bend facility. TECO is proposing to continue burning coal while expanding the use of fracked gas at their Tampa-area power plants, despite the negative effects these dirty fuels will have on public health, the climate, and surrounding communities.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in his speech at CERAWeek (Cambridge Energy Research Associates), EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said that “that those who oppose U.S. fossil fuel production are actually taking the most environmentally preferable energy source off the table for the rest of the world.”
Washington, DC-- Today, President Trump released his annual budget proposal which included some of the steepest proposed cuts yet to federal agencies that protect the health of the public and environment while increasing funds for more border wall by $8.6 billion. The border wall budget request comes after a 35-day-long government shutdown that ultimately ended in $1.3 billion more for border walls and Trump’s declaration of a national emergency in an attempt to gain more funds for construction on top of what was already allocated.
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, the Trump Administration released the president’s 2020 budget proposal, and it includes deep cuts to virtually every program in government that protects Americans from environmental threats, including an outrageous 31% cut to the Environmental Protection Agency and massive cuts to other critical agencies, including 14% to the Department of Interior.
The Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project have announced their intention to file a civil lawsuit challenging Clean Air Act violations from the James Lake Gas Plant in Ector County, Texas.
RICHMOND, Virginia – Yesterday, Dominion Energy filed their corrected 2018 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP): a long-range forecast of electricity demand and how the monopoly utility intends to meet that demand.
One business day before the trial-like hearing starts on TECO’s plan to keep burning coal and burn far more fracked gas at Big Bend, the Department of Environmental Protection filed a motion attempting to improperly strike nearly all of Sierra Club’s evidence
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Taskforce Chair Representative John Sarbanes, unanimously passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act. This landmark democracy reform package is designed to create nationwide automatic and same day voter registration, restore the Voting Rights Act to its full power, put an end to partisan gerrymandering, strengthen ethics laws to curb the undue influence of corporate polluters, and fix our broken campaign finance system, among other initiatives.