Washington, D.C. - According to the Business Council for Sustainable Energy’s Sustainable Energy in America 2025 Factbook, electricity produced by domestic renewable energy surpassed electricity produced by coal in 2024.
In 2024, renewable energy sources contributed nearly a quarter of all U.S. energy generation, while coal contributed only 15 percent, the lowest amount of generation from the dirty and expensive fuel source in recent history.
NEW YORK CITY - Today, media reports show that Donald Trump is attempting to kill New York City’s recently implemented congestion pricing program, which went into effect on January 5 for the Central Business District of Manhattan.
LANSING, Mich. - A number of federal agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers, are beginning to detail plans to fast-track unnecessary, dirty energy infrastructure projects without sufficient review, including the Line 5 tunnel project in the Straits of Mackinac.
ANCHORAGE, AK — Today, groups concerned about the threats from offshore drilling filed the first environmental legal challenge against the new Trump administration.
NAOMA, W.Va. – Today, Coal River Mountain Watch, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Appalachian Voices, and Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant a Clean Water Act permit for four valley fills associated with the Turkeyfoot Surface Mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
Washington, DC - A number of federal agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers, are beginning to detail plans to fast-track unnecessary, dirty energy infrastructure projects without sufficient review. Agencies were directed to complete reports within 30 days by Donald Trump’s executive order declaring an energy emergency. Projects that could be rushed through without proper review range from LNG export facilities along the Gulf Coast that harm local communities and drive up consumer energy prices to highly controversial pipelines like Line 5, which ships Canadian oil through the Great Lakes and back to Canada threatening the safety of the drinking water supply for 40 million people.
The Trump administration has taken steps to throw out 50 years worth of rules implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental safeguard designed to protect communities and give them a voice in federal permitting decisions.
Today, Donald Trump fired almost 400 probationary employees at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Bozeman, MT – Today the Montana Sierra Club, represented by Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, filed a motion to intervene to defend the 2024 Yellowstone National Park Bison Management Plan, which increases population objectives from 3,000 animals to 6,000.
Washington, DC – In a bizarre rant posted to X, Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA will attempt to illegally claw back $20 billion in funding already disbursed to lower energy costs, revitalize local economies, and address the climate crisis.