WASHINGTON, DC - Joe Biden (31%, +1 point) holds steady in a narrowing lead among climate voters as the Sierra Club releases the fourth round of its tracking poll conducted by Morning Consult. In the wake of high profile candidate climate forums, climate voters’ support for Elizabeth Warren (25%, +4 percentage points from last month) continues to rise, positioning her solidly as these voters’ #2 pick. Overall, Bernie Sanders stays in place at #3 among climate voters with 19% (-1 point). When first and second choice preferences are added together, Warren narrowly edges out Biden among climate voters (Warren with 49%, Biden with 47%).
The Environmental Law & Policy Center, Iowa Environmental Council, and Sierra Club agreed to a proposed partial settlement in the Alliant Energy rate case being heard by the Iowa Utilities Board this week. The proposed settlement, joined by ten of the 14 intervening parties, including the Consumer Advocate and large energy consumers, addressed several key issues in the rate case, including energy generation from Alliant’s coal plants, rate structures impacting energy efficiency, rate increases and others.
Dupuyer, MT-- Tomorrow, Interior Secretary Bernhardt will host a media event with Rep. Greg Gianforte in Dupuyer on the subject of grizzly bear management. The press event comes after Bernhardt implemented substantial rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act in August and assisted the finalizing of the delisting of grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region in 2017. Bernhardt’s record in Montana underlines his ties to extractive industry in the state, efforts to undermine wildlife protections and growing questions of ethics.
MARINA, Calif.— The Trump administration today dismissed protests and made a formal decision to open 725,500 acres of public lands and mineral estate across California’s Central Coast and the Bay Area to new oil and gas drilling and fracking.
The public lands the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has earmarked for leasing are in the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Stanislaus.
Washington, DC -- Late yesterday, it was announced that Energy Secretary Rick Perry will be resigning from office. Perry has repeatedly sought avenues to force taxpayers to illegally bail out uneconomical coal and nuclear plants only to see these efforts rejected. Perry had also suggested that fossil fuel development will decrease the number of sexual assaults.
Jackson, WY-- Late yesterday, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced that chronic wasting disease (CWD) was confirmed in a mule deer in the Wyoming Range mountains. The positive test signals that the always-fatal wildlife disease has officially hit an area that encompasses three entire winter elk feedgrounds: South Park, Horse Creek, and Camp Creek; and a portion of Dell Creekfeedground at Riling Draw road.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, E&E News reported that new documents show that the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs deleted language about how climate change poses a "serious challenge” and a link to the Fourth National Climate Assessment from a proposal to preempt California's clean cars program.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a public hearing today to take input on “Phase 2b” of its proposed rollbacks of safeguards against coal ash pollution. The proposal under consideration would gut federal safeguards for coal ash waste piles and construction projects that use the toxic ash as a substitute for clean soil.
Harrisburgh, PA -- Today Governor Wolf signed an executive order beginning the process that would add Pennsylvania to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). States participating in RGGI place limits on climate change-causing carbon pollution emissions from power plants, that decline over time.
Nationwide -- This year’s National Drive Electric Week (NDEW), a coast-to-coast celebration of electric vehicles (EVs), hosted 324 events in all 50 U.S. states and eight countries, at the same time as states announced major progress on electrifying transportation. According to estimates from our local event organizers, there were upwards of 170,000 people who attended the 2019 NDEW events.