Boston — Today, Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg announced new draft rules that would allow the state pension fund to vote against directors at companies that are not aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement. The fund controls $95.7 billion invested across over 11,000 public companies.
This morning, Dr. Saule Omarova will face the Senate Banking Committee for a hearing on her nomination to be Comptroller of the Currency.
Cientos de activistas y otros ciudadanos se manifestaron hoy frente a la Casa Blanca por quinta vez en una poderosa demostración para instar al Presidente Biden y el Senado a actuar de inmediato para proteger nuestra democracia y restaurar los derechos del votante.
SALEM, Ore. — School buses, package delivery vans, waste haulers, and semi-trucks gliding along roadways and through neighborhoods -- fueled by renewable electricity-- with no clattering diesel engines or clouds of harmful exhaust. This future is more in focus than ever for Oregon, with adoption of new rules today.
With a congressional vote expected in the coming days, local community and faith leaders will join together on Thursday, November 18 at 10:00am outside of the office of U.S. Representative Kurt Schrader to urge passage of the Build Back Better Act. Schrader and several colleagues issued a joint statement promising support for the legislation no later than this week. Yet the 5th District congressman has wavered in his commitment in recent days, leading constituents to formally call on Schrader to “keep your word to help Oregon build back better.”
DETROIT, MI - Today, President Biden will visit a General Motors EV factory in Michigan to discuss the opportunity for electric vehicle manufacturing investments to reduce climate emissions in the transportation sector and improve air quality in communities, as well as the significance of supporting unionized workers as we shift to a clean energy economy.
WASHINGTON D.C. -- In front of the White House today, hundreds of activists and concerned Americans are joining together for the fifth time in a powerful demonstration to call on President Biden and the Senate to take immediate action to protect our democracy and restore voting rights.
Today, as the Biden Administration offers more than 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing, Gulf and environmental groups vow to continue their legal challenge to stop this commitment to decades of greenhouse gas emissions.
Commissioner Phillips must push the agency to address climate and environmental justice impacts of fracked gas pipelines and export terminals, and accelerate the transition to clean, affordable electricity.
Today, the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board voted to move forward petitions filed by the Sierra Club, Clean Air Council, Earthworks, Mountain Watershed Association, PennFuture, and Protect Penn-Trafford that would work to adopt better bonding for conventional and unconventional wells in the Commonwealth by a 16 to 3 vote. This is a critical step in fixing the broken system of funding oil and gas well cleanup in the Commonwealth and protecting residents and taxpayers from the dangers of abandoned wells.