WASHINGTON, DC — Over the last seven years, National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) has inspired drivers to kick gas, and as the eighth annual NDEW launches today, it boasts more events than ever before. There are more than 320 events registered in all 50 states and several countries that feature plug-in electric vehicles (EVs). Through test drives, parades, news conferences, and announcements of new EV policies and programs, NDEW community events demonstrate how EVs are cleaner, cheaper, and more fun to operate than vehicles powered by fossil fuels.
Today, the Trump Administration directly threatened the future of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of America’s iconic wilderness areas.
Administration officials announced that the United States Forest Service will allow companies to pursue sulfide ore mining leases immediately adjacent to the Boundary Waters. Today’s announcement also included an abrupt end to an incomplete and never-released environmental study of sulfide mining impacts in the BWCA watershed that was started under the Obama Administration.
This morning, Senate Democrats continued to fulfill their duty by exposing some of the damaging records from Brett Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush White House. But these new documents are just a snapshot of the hundreds of thousands of documents the Trump administration is still trying to hide. What is in those records? And why don’t Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Chuck Grassley want them released?
Media outlets reported that Steven Gardner, a coal industry insider beholden to polluters, has withdrawn his nomination to Direct the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE).
Saturday, September 8th, Comunidades Unidas, the Utah Sierra Club, and 350.org are hosting a voter registration drive and educational event at the Northwest Recreation and Community Center in the Fairpark neighborhood of Salt Lake City. This event is affiliated with the national call to action to Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice, and coincides with thousands of simultaneous events across the country, including the People’s Climate March in San Francisco, California.
Earlier today, Brett Kavanaugh attempted to gloss over his polluter-friendly judicial record while responding to a question from Republican Senator Orrin Hatch. But make no mistake: Brett Kavanaugh has consistently sided with corporate polluters. Kavanaugh’s toxic record poses a grave threat to our clean air and water and communities across the country, and his testimony today affirms the fact that he will more than likely overturn the Chevron Doctrine, which gives executive agencies the authority to interpret the statutes they implement, if he’s confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Duke Energy, the country’s largest electric utility, has filed new long term energy plans for Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress that set earlier closure dates for some polluting coal units, but still bank on climate disrupting fracked gas as a mainstay for electricity generation.
Ahead of next week’s Global Climate Action Summit, the Sierra Club today announced that San Francisco Mayor London Breed has joined Mayors for 100% Clean Energy as a new national Co-Chair.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, as the confirmation hearing for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began, Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats spoke out for the American people and demanded that the hearing be delayed until Kavanaugh’s full record has been released. Brett Kavanaugh spent over five years in the George W. Bush White House as White House Counsel and Staff Secretary. To date, only a fraction of Kavanaugh’s more than 6 million White House documents have been made public.
This week Secretary Zinke’s Department of the Interior will begin another round of oil and gas leasing on public lands-- auctioning off public lands in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah to the highest bidder. The latest leases are part of an effort by Sec. Zinke to lease every possible acre of public land as quickly as possible. Every three months new swaths near our parks and treasured places are being sold out to industry, steadily eating away at the places people know and love.