Tomorrow: Watts Clean Energy and Air Committee to install MegaWatts Solar Project Tomorrow, Wednesday August 15, the Watts Clean Energy and Air Committee in partnership with GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles will complete their 2-day installation of the MegaWatts solar project. This six kilowatt DC installation is the first phase of a larger project to bring solar power to the communities of South Los Angeles.
After a tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today, Department of Energy Executive Rick Perry again stated his intention to force electricity customers and taxpayers to spend tens of billions of dollars to bailout uneconomic coal and nuclear plants that cannot compete with cleaner, cheaper competitors like solar and wind.
Minneapolis, MN-- This week, Sierra Club Senior Organizing Representative Karen Monahan described experiences of domestic abuse by Minnesota Attorney General Candidate and Congressman Keith Ellison. Karen is based in Minnesota and leads the Minnesota Environmental Justice Program for the Sierra Club.
Today, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit claiming the Chicago Trump Tower is violating the Clean Water Act.
Baltimore, MD--The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) released finalized water pollution permits for the Chalk Point, Dickerson and Morgantown coal-fired power plants yesterday. The plants have been operating under expired permits since 2014 and the update now requires the plants to install necessary pollution-control measures to reduce dangerous metals that are discharged into the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac and Patuxent Rivers by November 1, 2020. The permits follow EPA guidance but do not completely eliminate the dumping of toxic coal by-product pollutants such as arsenic, selenium and mercury into our waterways.
Washington, DC -- During a visit to California today to discuss wildfire, Interior Sec. Zinke not only ignored climate change’s role in worsening wildfire, but actively denied it-- doubling down on calls to open more public forest land to extractive industries.
In the space of just one week, legal challenges from clean water advocates led to work stoppages along the entire routes of both the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley announced that he intends to hold hearings September 4-6 for Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s extremist Supreme Court nominee.
Today, the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) responded to an order to halt construction by proposing they complete 45 miles of construction (bless their little hearts).
The Sierra Club has launched an aggressive digital ad campaign in The Reno Gazette Journal calling out Congressman Mark Amodei, who represents Nevada’s second congressional district. Amodei recently voted twice against climate action and clean air.