November 3, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - While officials across the country continue to tally vote counts, the presidential election remains too close to call.
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3 de noviembre de 2020
Mientras las autoridades electorales continúan contando votos, la elección presidencial sigue siendo demasiado ajustada para declararla.
November 2, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Members of Congress were left wanting yesterday, November 2, after the Department of the Interior failed to produce a list of projects by a deadline stipulated in the recently passed Great American Outdoors Act. The law, which was signed into law in August, requires Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to submit lists of priority projects, including one for projects to be funded by the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The deadline lapsed without the Department producing the list.
Engie Drops Rio Grande LNG Fracked Gas Export Deal After French Government Raises Pollution Concerns
November 2, 2020
French trading firm Engie has reportedly dropped negotiations on a $7 billion, 20-year contract to import fracked gas from NextDecade’s planned Rio Grande LNG export facility near Brownsville, Texas.
October 30, 2020
The Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin hosted an online press conference Thursday morning on the ninth anniversary of the We Energies’ Oak Creek bluff collapse incident which occurred on Halloween of 2011. Speakers from the community and local public officials called on We Energies to stop their dirty tricks and finally end their haunting legacy in Southeast Wisconsin by retiring their polluting and devastation-prone coal plant. We Energies is faced with having to eliminate its more dangerous methods for handling coal ash by the end of next year, in accordance with its water permit. The company has yet to decide whether it will invest more money in the Oak Creek coal plant, or shut it down in order to comply. Speakers appealed to the company to make the only decision that will offer residents a guaranteed future free of impacts from that plant: a retirement and remediation timeline for the coal-fired Oak Creek Power Plant.
October 29, 2020
Today Puget Sound Energy (PSE) announced they will no longer pursue a plan to sell their stake in Colstrip Unit 4 and transmission capacity to Montana’s NorthWestern Energy and Talen Montana, following near-unanimous opposition to the deal. This decision leaves the future of the plant in doubt and speaks to the need for the plant’s owners to negotiate an orderly retirement and transition plan for workers and the local community.
October 29, 2020
Annapolis, MD - Today, the Governors of Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina announced a new regional partnership that seeks to attract and promote massive clean offshore wind development and thousands of clean energy jobs and billions of dollars to the region.
October 29, 2020
RICHMOND, VA - Today, the Governors of Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina announced a new regional partnership that seeks to attract and promote massive clean offshore wind development and thousands of clean energy jobs and billions of dollars to the region.
October 29, 2020
Today, the Platte River Power Authority (PRPA) Board voted to build a new gas-fired power plant as part of its long-term, electric resource plan (ERP), which derails the utility’s 2018 commitment to 100% carbon-free power by 2030. PRPA is now the only utility in Colorado with plans to build new, permanent fossil fuel-powered generation.
October 29, 2020
Six months after a poorly executed implosion at the former Crawford coal plant, community activists are escalating the demand for answers with billboards calling out the developer, Hilco Redevelopment Partners (Hilco), about continued lack of transparency and cooperation. Since May, the City of Chicago has only hosted one community meeting, with no professional Spanish interpretation, while Hilco has hosted a single meeting only after a mandate from the City. The environmental disaster at the Crawford site blanketed Little Village in a toxic dust cloud and both Hilco and City officials have failed to provide adequate information on the dangers residents may have been exposed to. Hilco is working to redevelop the coal plant site into a truck depot for retail giant Target.