WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Biden’s Department of Transportation and Department of Energy announced $5 billion towards a program that aims to build out a network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers across the nation, an investment out of the recently passed infrastructure law.
AWMS Water Solutions of Warren, a company that ran a fracking waste injection well, has requested the Ohio Oil and Gas Commission amend an order from the Department of Natural Resources’ Oil and Gas Resources Division (ODNR), and raise the threshold for earthquakes for an automatic shutdown, which would allow for more powerful earthquakes before it must shut down.
AUSTIN, TX -- Today, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) voted to approve a weak and legally insufficient state implementation plan (SIP) to address the dangerous levels of SO2, or sulfur pollution, created by Vistra’s Martin Lake Coal Plant (Martin Lake) in Rusk County, Texas. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must now review the plan by this summer, as required by the Clean Air Act, and should reject the plan as insufficient and inadequate.
Boston, MA – The grid operator for New England, ISO-NE, has decided to delay fixing a rule that makes it harder for renewable energy projects to replace unneeded fossil fuel power plants on the grid. Last week, the grid operator, along with the region’s largest utility companies, voted to delay making the urgent reform to the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) by two more years in a move that will keep open aging fossil fuel plants that continue polluting communities across the region and unnecessarily charging customers on their bills.
El Presidente Biden anunció hoy que Tritium, un fabricante australiano de cargadores de vehículos eléctricos, inaugurará su primera instalación en Lebanon, Tennessee, la cual fabricará hasta 30.000 cargadores rápidos al año y creará 500 empleos locales.
El Senado de Virginia rechazó hoy la nominación del Gobernador Glenn Youngkin para que el ex cabildero carbonero Andrew Wheeler se convirtiera en el nuevo secretario de Recursos Naturales e Históricos del estado.
ST PAUL, MN -- Earlier today, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved Xcel Energy’s integrated resource plan (IRP), a long-range plan for how the utility intends to provide electricity to its ratepayers in the coming decades. In doing so, the PUC took a significant step towards a Minnesota that is powered by 100% clean and renewable energy, although there is much work that still remains to be done.
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LEBANON, TN - Today, President Biden announced that Tritium, an Australia-based electric vehicle charger manufacturer, will open its first U.S. facility in Lebanon, Tennessee. This facility will produce up to 30,000 DC Fast Chargers each year and create 500 local jobs.
Today, the Virginia Senate rejected Governor Youngkin’s nomination of former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources.
After Court Victory, 310 Groups Urge Interior Department to Halt Permit Approvals That Rely on Same Faulty Analysis Rejected in Ruling