Since the 1970s, the citizens of this small town in rural Jasper County have lived, worked, and played next to the towering smoke stacks of – and under the clouds of pollution pouring from – NIPSCO’s massive R.M. Schahfer coal-burning electric power plant. On Saturday, more than 30 of those residents sounded off about their industrial neighbor – deemed one of 22 “super polluters,” the worst air-polluting coal plants in the nation in a report by The Center for Public Integrity, USA Today, and The Weather Channel. Indiana is burdened with five super polluters, more than any other state.
San Diego, CA -- Today, the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit challenging the County of San Diego’s failure to adequately evaluate greenhouse gas mitigation when it approved three new major development projects in what are currently greenfields. The suit contends that in approving the projects, the County is relying on measures that fail to meet legal standards and has violated state law requiring enforceable mitigation measures.
Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that the oil industry is pushing for the federal government to fund construction of a 60-mile “spine” of concrete seawalls and levees along the Texas Gulf Coast.
4 Major California cities commit to carbon-free buildings by 2050
The cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and Santa Monica just announced their intent to join 15 other leading cities around the world and adopt a plan for zero-carbon buildings by 2050. Today, Los Angeles and San Francisco committed to all new buildings being carbon-free by 2030, and all existing buildings being carbon-free by 2050. Prioritizing zero-carbon buildings is an essential strategy to achieve California’s climate goals while also lowering the cost of housing.
Despite yesterday’s guilty plea by Donald Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen and conviction of former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort, Sen. Collins says she sees “no basis” for delaying Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court. Collins’ comments come as a flood of her colleagues are calling for the hearings to be delayed because of the failure to disclose 97% of Kavanaugh’s documents from his time in the George W. Bush White House and yesterday’s events.
Next Wednesday, August 29, Native and non-Native leaders will be joined by national environmental advocates to take escalated action in the Bemidji area to urge Governor Mark Dayton to act immediately to stop Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
BOSTON, MA -- Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced today that the City of Boston will issue a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) on August 27 for submissions from consulting firms to assist the City’s development, implementation, and administration, of a municipal electricity aggregation program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen pled guilty to attempting to influence the 2016 election “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office,” implicating Donald Trump in a federal crime. Within minutes, Trump’s former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort was separately convicted in the Mueller investigation. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, along with Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Sen. Jeff Merkley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, called for Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing to be “immediately postponed” while the Senate Judiciary Committee investigates the charges made against Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign. Sen. Mazie Hirono and Sen. Ed Markey cancelled their scheduled interviews with Kavanaugh.
MISSOULA, Mont.— A hearing will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, in U.S. District Court on a challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to strip Endangered Species Act protection from Yellowstone’s famed grizzly bears.
Today, the Virginia State Water Control Board allowed the controversial fracked-gas Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines to proceed with current inadequate permits.