Press Releases

December 12, 2024

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.

December 12, 2024

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.

December 12, 2024

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.

December 12, 2024

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.

December 11, 2024

Knoxville, T.N.  Today, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is closing its public comment period on its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP).

December 11, 2024

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.

December 11, 2024

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.

December 11, 2024

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).

December 10, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would consider protections for the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act.

December 10, 2024

Today, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about a plan to bypass environmental reviews for “any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America.”