Washington, DC -- Today, Goldman Sachs announced a new commitment to align its financing activities with a pathway to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and committed to set interim climate targets by the end of this year. Goldman Sachs also indicated it would begin measuring and disclosing its financed emissions, though the announcement lacked further details on the bank’s methodology for doing so and its near-term steps for cutting emissions.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House passed the For the People Act with every single Democrat cosponsoring. This historic package includes a comprehensive, common sense set of democracy reforms, including automatic voter registration, stronger rules around ethics and campaign finance, restored voting rights for 1.7 million formerly incarcerated people, and a ban on partisan gerrymandering -- all of which will help add more than 50 million people to the voter rolls, reign in the influence of corporate polluters, ensure accessible, accurate elections, and expand the freedoms of all eligible Americans to participate in democracy.
FedEx anunció hoy que su flota de reparto será completamente eléctrica para 2040, incluyendo metas progresivas, como el 50% de su adquisición de vehículos eléctricos para 2025.
DETROIT -- Sierra Club and Environment Michigan, represented by the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center and National Environmental Law Center, announced Wednesday that they have taken the first steps in a Clean Air Act lawsuit against AK Steel Dearborn Works, one of Michigan’s most notorious polluters.
San Juan, Puerto Rico -- Today, Sierra Club and Alianza Energía Renovable Ahora (AERA) filed over 15,000 public comments with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), asking the Commission to end operations at a liquified methane gas import terminal that was built without FERC approval, environmental impact review, risk studies or notification of nearby residents.
ANNAPOLIS, MD - County Executives and Elected Officials from some of Maryland's largest localities are calling on the General Assembly to provide support for local governments across the state that are imminently facing a fall in tax revenue and employment opportunities due to the collapse of the coal industry.
The Biden administration has withdrawn a Final Environmental Impact Statement and decision that would facilitate the transfer of ownership of Oak Flat, a sacred land to at least a dozen Indigenous Tribes, to a mining company with ties to the destruction of an Aboriginal site in Australia. The move follows years of opposition from Apache-Stronghold, the San Carlos Apache Tribe, the Inter Tribal Association of Arizona, and other Tribal entities, religious leaders, locals, and environmental groups.
Houston, Texas - Today, as President Biden visits Houston, residents are raising concerns about a potentially massive flare of air pollution related to the re-starting of local refineries and chemical plants which were closed for more than a week as an extreme winter storm ravaged the region. This potential new pollution flare follows on the heels of a huge, already documented toxic release of pollutants from Texas facilities during the winter storm.