OLYMPIA, WA — The Washington State Building Code Council voted 11-3 today to adopt a new statewide commercial and multifamily building energy code that will be the strongest, most climate-friendly in the country by driving the transition to clean electricity for space and water heating. This major win for clean energy coincides with President Joe Biden’s Earth Day Seattle visit where he discussed the infrastructure bill and clean energy.
El Presidente Biden, en medio de llamados en todo el país para actuar audazmente contra la crisis climática por medio de decisiones legislativas y ejecutivas, emitió hoy una orden ejecutiva sobre bosques y otras soluciones basadas en la naturaleza.
Today, as calls continue to mount demanding bold climate action through legislation and administrative action, President Biden issued an executive order on climate forests and nature-based solutions. The order, which was detailed in a speech celebrating Earth Day, launches a process to define and inventory old and mature forests on federal lands, so that policies are enacted to conserve them, and initiates a nature-based solution assessment to understand nature capital and ecosystems to help in the preservation and conservation of natural places.
Harrisburg, P.A. - This morning, the regulation known as the CO2 Budget Trading Program, which allows Pennsylvania to link to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) went into effect via publication in the online version of the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Under the new rule, carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fueled power plants in Pennsylvania will be capped at 78 million tons per year initially, and the cap will decrease by over 3% per year. This is the first time that Pennsylvania has limited greenhouse gas emissions in any sector of the economy.
Today, President Joe Biden will issue an executive order that directs federal agencies to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on America’s federal lands so that policies can be adopted to protect them. The administration framed the move as a key strategy to store carbon and address climate change.
Boston – Today, 11 New England clean energy and consumer advocacy organizations filed a protest urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to reject ISO New England’s proposal to delay reforming the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) and require an immediate fix to this anti-competitive rule.
Washington, DC – Today, in a 4 to 1 vote, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) put forth a new proposal to improve the transmission planning and cost allocation requirements, critical steps to unleashing clean energy, improving the resilience of the power grid, and saving consumers money. FERC will be accepting comments on the proposal 75 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.
For the first time, the six biggest US banks – Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs – are all facing votes on shareholder resolutions pushing them to end their support for new fossil fuel development.
Este Día de la Tierra, miles de miembros del Sierra Club y sus aliados y activistas se van a lanzar a las calles y por medio del arte e instarán al Presidente Biden y al Congreso a que cumplan sus promesas de invertir seriamente en el combate contra la crisis climática, la dificultad de pagar por bienes y servicios, y la rampante injusticia social.
Today, the EPA released a draft technical white paper on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from gas-fired power plants.