SPOKANE, WA -- Today, Cathy McMorris Rodgers was added onto the list of Congressional representatives the Sierra Club is working to oust as part of its “Fossil Fools 2018” campaign. Fossil Fools is an aggressive midterm electoral ad campaign, launched last week by the Sierra Club Political Committee, targeting nearly a dozen incumbent Congressional Republicans and candidates for defeat.
Donald Trump formally nominated his initial coal bailout architect, Bernard McNamee, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today in order to fill the seat of resigning commissioner Robert Powelson.
FORT COLLINS, CO – On Tuesday, October 2, the Fort Collins City Council voted 6-1 to approve a resolution committing the community to shift away from fossil fuels and transition to 100 percent clean, renewable electricity by 2030. The resolution can be found here.
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers under the Clean Water Act for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP).
Gov. Rick Scott, in his role as head of the Florida Power Plant Siting Board, moved a controversial vote to after the election as he seeks a seat in the United States Senate.
Former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler held the nation’s only hearing for public comment in Chicago yesterday on the Trump Administration’s plan to repeal the historic Clean Power Plan (CPP) and move forward with its Dirty Power Plan. Indiana residents from across the state headed to Chicago, IL for the hearing.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today advanced a host of public lands legislation including, Restore Our Parks, Land and Water Conservation Fund, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Conservation Act, Every Kid Outdoors Act and the Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Tonight will kick off the first of three public meetings on a proposed management plan for Bears Ears National Monument. The plan leaves most of Bears Ears without protections and comes despite current legal challenges to the Trump administration’s illegal actions to shrink the monuments.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear the mining industry’s challenge to the 20-year ban on new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.
Audubon, PA — PJM Interconnection, the regional electric grid operator for 13 states including Pennsylvania, announced the results of its grid reliability analysis for the FirstEnergy-owned Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant today. The report states the plant is not necessary for grid reliability in the area. Transmission upgrades are scheduled to be in place by the requested retirement date of June 1, 2021, which means the plant can retire on that date as requested with no impact to electric reliability.