Boston, MA - Today, Mayor Michelle Wu celebrated the arrival of the first two electric school buses to the Boston Public Schools (BPS) fleet, with 18 more to come over the next several weeks, which will serve an estimated 2,561 students across 42 schools.
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In advance of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, the Sierra Club celebrates the many historic legislative victories achieved in 2022 and urges President Biden to lay out his administration’s clear plans for 2023 to continue combating the climate crisis, protecting our lands and waters, and ensuring justice and equity for all.
In advance of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, the Sierra Club celebrates the many historic legislative victories achieved in 2022 and urges President Biden to lay out his administration’s clear plans for 2023 to continue combating the climate crisis, protecting our lands and waters, and ensuring justice and equity for all.
El Departamento de Transporte anunció la concesión de $800 millones en otorgamientos para financiar 510 proyectos en comunidades de todo Estados Unidos para hacer más seguro caminar y montar en bicicleta en barrios urbanos y rurales.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club and EPA reached a settlement agreement requiring the agency to review–and if necessary, revise–a dangerous loophole in the Coal Combustion Residuals rule that exempts hundreds of coal ash landfills across the country from federal regulations.
NATIONAL - Tomorrow, in honor of Rosa Parks’ birthday, labor unions, racial justice groups, environmental organizations, transit groups, and disability advocates are joining together to elevate public transit as a civil right and essential to decarbonizing the US transportation system.
St. Paul, MN – Today, the Minnesota State Senate passed SF 4, which raises Minnesota’s Renewable Energy Standard and creates a Carbon Free Standard that would require all of Minnesota’s utilities to produce carbon-free electricity by 2040.
For the sixth year in a row, in honor of Rosa Parks’ birthday, the Transit Equity Network has joined together transit riders, community organizations, civil rights groups, environmental and climate justice groups and transit worker unions to organize around Transit Equity Day. The Network observes February 4 as Transit Equity Day annually to honor Rosa Parks and other civil rights leaders and advocate for transit as a civil right and a climate change solution.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Conservation and wildlife advocacy groups are celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the passage of the Endangered Species Act this year, commemorating
five decades of effective and crucial protection for imperiled animals and plants.
A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the Biden administration’s defense of unchecked oil and gas fracking in the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico, ruling the U.S. Interior Department flouted the law when approving 199 drilling permits in the culturally significant landscape.