CHAPLIN, CT. – Late Thursday evening, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection hosted a virtual public hearing on the proposed renewal of a Title V air permit at Enbridge’s gas compression station in Chaplin. The hearing was organized at the urging of Sierra Club Connecticut, alongside community members and other allied groups who share concerns about the facility's impact on local air quality.
Washington, DC – Members of CHIPS Communities United (CCU), a coalition of unions, environmental, and community groups, responded to the contract between the CHIPS Program Office and Micron Corp. for facilities in New York and Idaho. The coalition raised concerns about the absence of firm, transparent job creation and job quality commitments, supposedly a central goal of the CHIPS and Science Act.
BOSTON, MA. - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced 70 grant recipients for its Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program to receive funding for over 2,400 zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles. The awards will go to fund projects in 27 states, three Tribal Nations, and one territory.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of the Interior announced $3.7 million worth of investments to clean up abandoned hardrock mines. The investments are funded through the Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) grant program, established by President Biden’s signature bipartisan infrastructure law.
Washington, D.C. – Today, the United States Supreme Court denied big polluters’ request to pause historic safeguards that would hold the coal industry accountable and improve public health for communities across the country.
NEW YORK - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 70 grant recipients for its Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program to receive funding for over 2,400 zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles. The awards will go to fund projects in 27 states, three Tribal Nations, and one territory.
Knoxville, T.N. — Today, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is closing its public comment period on its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP).
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 70 grant recipients for its Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program to receive funding for over 2,400 zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles.
Today, the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (China Select Committee), held a final meeting to release three new bills – the Black Mass Export Controls Act, the Critical Minerals Workforce Enhancement Act, and the Earth Sciences and Cooperation Enhancement Act – aimed at advancing domestic and allied nations’ critical mineral supply chains necessary for the clean energy transition and economic security.
Washington, D.C. — Today, 15 national, regional and state environmental, tribal, and animal welfare groups petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to adopt a new approach to recovering grizzly bears in the U.S. Northern Rockies, pointing to a new science-based report by Dr. Christopher Servheen, the former USFWS Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator (1981-2016).