Today, the State Department announced a new $500 million grant to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a fund created by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to provide financial support for developing countries to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate disruption.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today is holding a hearing to examine the nomination of Rep. Ryan Zinke to serve as Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
Today, the Sierra Club is mobilizing its members across the country to join Center for Community Change, United We Dream, SEIU, Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign and other allies in national-day-of-action rallies to support immigrants and oppose Trump’s xenophobia.
According to E&E News, those working for and supporting Oklahoma Attorney General and Trump nominee to be EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, have opened a new political operation while shuttering his leadership PAC and Super PAC.
Today, an environmental coalition including the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Ecology Center, Electric Auto Association, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Fresh Energy, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, Ceres, the Greenlining Institute, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Conservation Law Foundation submitted recommendations to Volkswagen (VW) on how to most effectively spend a portion of national settlement funds to increase green transportation: the “ZEV Investment Plan.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, it was reported that Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, will lead a “formal initiative” to undermine and call into question the overwhelming scientific consensus that man is driving the climate crisis, funding a program to bring in “alternative” voices who deny the climate crisis on the heels of Pruitt’s
Raleigh, NC -- Today, all the fracked gas purchasing agreements justifying the the Atlantic Coast Pipeline were set to expire because the Environmental Impact Statement for the pipeline was not completed before June 30, 2017. Instead, North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) granted an extension to Duke Energy for the contracts, responding to an emergency request without review by the NCUC or the public.
Utah -- Yesterday, the Public Service Commission approved an $10M Electric Vehicle (EV) incentive and time-of-use pilot program, as a part of Rocky Mountain Power's Application to Implement Programs Authorized by the state’s Sustainable Transportation and Energy Plan Act.
Washington, DC -- Today, the Department of Interior announced that it will move on Monday to take the first step towards re-doing its five-year offshore drilling plan, with the goal of expanding drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and to include parts of the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Arctic.
The current plan was finalized by the Obama administration just seven months ago, after a multi-year process during which millions of Americans weighed in.
Washington, DC -- Today, Donald Trump gave a speech that was intended to cap off what he his White House has dubbed “Energy Week,” though the majority of the week has been spent on health care and the president’s sexist Twitter attacks.