WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Top House Republicans unveiled part of their legislative plan to reduce carbon emissions.These plans are myopically focused on carbon capture and sequestration while preserving the fossil fuel industry, failing to significantly address greenhouse gas emissions and the fossil fuel industry.
This week the 37-year-old Sims coal fired power plant in Grand Haven will be shut down permanently in accordance with plans made one year ago by the Grand Haven Board of Light & Power after sustained advocacy by Sierra Club, its local volunteers along with many community members.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Westerman today introduced the Trillion Trees Act. The bill is one of three components of Republicans’ legislative attempts to address climate change. Trump has endorsed tree planting to fight climate change, despite repeatedly denying the current climate crisis.
BlackRock, la mayor firma inversora del mundo, anunció hoy que uno de sus fondos de inversión de mayor crecimiento dejará de invertir en arenas bituminosas, la fuente del crudo más tóxico del planeta.
Today, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, announced that one of its fastest-growing sustainable funds will stop investing in tar sands, one of the dirtiest fuel sources on the planet.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, Senator Udall and Representative Lowenthal, joined by Senator Merkley and Representative Clark, released the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020, a landmark bill aimed at addressing the growing problem of plastic pollution and protecting public health by phasing out single-use plastic, holding corporate polluters accountable for the plastic waste they produce, reducing plastic packaging, and updating the current plastic recycling system. The bill would also halt the production of new plastics plants, while the EPA reexamines the impacts of plastics to air and water.
Washington, DC -- Yesterday, the Sierra Club signed onto a statement of support alongside the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Edison Electric Institute (electric utilities' trade group), and two consumer groups, NCLC and Illinois CUB, that establishes momentous common ground among environmental and consumer advocates and utilities.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House Government and Oversight Committee passed H.R. 51, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s Washington, D.C. Admission Act. The bill will make D.C. the 51st state, and today’s historic vote marks the first time a bill supporting D.C. Statehood will go to the House floor.
Today, Donald Trump’s Department of Energy released a proposal that would extend licenses for LNG exports until 2050, far beyond when scientists agree the world must slash emissions from fossil fuels in order to avert climate catastrophe.
WASHINGTON, DC— Today, the House of Representatives will vote on the Protecting America’s Wilderness bill that includes the Colorado Wilderness Act— legislation that would safeguard more than 740,000 acres of land located in 33 critical wildlife and ecologically-sensitive areas in Colorado.