Washington, DC-- Tomorrow at 10:00 am, Harlem resident and army veteran Mark A. Favors will testify before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the military’s contamination of community drinking water systems surrounding military bases with per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (man-made chemicals known as PFAS).
Mr. Favors’ relatives, including seven military veterans, residing in polluted areas have been contaminated. 16 have been diagnosed with cancer.
This weekend, Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that plans for their proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline have been delayed by a year. The pipeline was originally proposed in 2014 with a target in-service date of late 2017, but has faced significant public opposition since then because of the threat it would pose to critical water resources, Indigenous rights, and the climate.
Washington, DC -- At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, Congressional Republicans announced the establishment of the bicameral Roosevelt Conservation Caucus. Senators Lindsey Graham (lifetime LCV score of 12%) and Cory Gardner (10%) will lead the caucus in the Senate, with Representatives Elise Stefanik (33%) and Brian Mast (26%) leading in the House. According to its founders, the caucus will not focus on climate change, instead looking at public lands, wildlife, and the expansion and promotion of fossil fuels.
Washington, DC -- Today, CQ Roll Call is reporting that a uranium mining firm with mines on the outskirts of the Bears Ears National Monument met with the Interior Department nearly a month before Donald Trump requested his monument review.
ATLANTA, GA—Today, the Atlanta City Council doubled down on its commitment to transition to 100 percent renewable energy for 100 percent of Atlantans by unanimously adopting “Clean Energy Atlanta,” a plan outlining how the city will achieve its goal for a just and equitable clean energy transition.
The first-ever comprehensive analysis of groundwater near U.S. coal-fired power plants shows Duke Energy’s Allen Steam Station near Belmont is the second most contaminated coal ash site in the country.
Governor Walz and Lieutenant Governor Flanagan announced their “One Minnesota Path to Clean Energy,” calling for legislative action on climate by transitioning to clean energy in the way we generate electricity.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT—Yesterday, the state of Utah filed a petition seeking exemptions from the Forest Service’s Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The roadless rule was established to protect and preserve wild places, including some of the last remaining stands of old-growth trees, critical habitat for wildlife, recreational havens, and forest headwaters that provide clean drinking water for more than 60 million people nationwide.
Today, the Virginia State Water Control Board failed to establish a process for revoking the Water Quality Certificate for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline
Washington, DC -- Today, House Republicans have chosen a group of climate deniers and staunch opponents of environmental protection with disastrous records to represent them on the Special Committee on the Climate Crisis.
The GOP members of the panel will include Garret Graves (La.), Morgan Griffith (Va.), Buddy Carter (Ga.), Carol Miller (WV), Gary Palmer (Ala.) and Kelly Armstrong (ND).