Earlier today, Senators Leahy, Feinstein, Grassley, and Cornyn sent Andrew Wheeler and the EPA a letter on their dangerous changes to the FOIA process. Below is a quote from Sierra Club’s Legislative Director Melinda Pierce on the news:
The New Hampshire Supreme Court denied the appeal for Northern Pass, a private international transmission line sponsored by HydroQuebec and Eversource energy companies. New Hampshire Sierra Club opposed the Northern Pass project because of the projected local environmental damage created by its construction, as well as the ongoing harm done to the First Nations people and the flood rivers in Canada.
The New Hampshire Sierra Club supports the House and Senate approval of SB168, a bill that would expand the electric solar adoption standard for all of the electric utilities, and calls on Governor Sununu to make the bill law.
Sierra Club Connecticut, along with Connecticut Fund for the Environment and Not Another Power Plant, demonstrated in testimony that a 650 MW gas plant, slated to be built in Killingly, is not needed to meet the state’s energy needs, and, without enforceable limits on greenhouse gas emissions, will impede the state from achieving its own mandated energy goals.
Con el fin de confrontar los crecientes desafíos de nuestra crisis climática, los principales grupos ambientales nacionales y de justicia ambiental en Estados Unidos están promoviendo, por primera vez, una plataforma climática justa y equitativa.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a recent interview with Eva McKend of Spectrum News, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler was pressed about his reaction to Trump’s racist attacks on four women of color in Congress -- Representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley. Wheeler twice refused to condemn Trump’s racism and instead pivoted to his own attacks on Congress while distorting the effects of the Administration’s policies that will lead to more pollution, especially in low-income communities and communities of color.
Washington, D.C. — To confront the widening dangers of our climate crisis, leading U.S. environmental justice and national environmental groups today are advancing for the first time an Equitable and Just National Climate Platform.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, the Trump-Wheeler EPA released a 2018 Air Trends Report in another attempt to push distorted figures and take credit for air pollution gains related to policies Trump and Wheeler are trying to tear down. According to Associated Press analysis, U.S. air quality dropped “after years of improvement,” with more polluted air days each year in Trump’s first two years in office than in the previous four years.
Rock Springs, WY-- The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission will meet on July 18th and 19th to decide whether or not to require hunters to carry bear spray in grizzly bear habitat, how to control the spread of chronic wasting disease, and adopt regulations for wolf hunting, among other topics.
Today, the Ohio Senate voted 19 - 12 to move HB 6 back to the House; a new energy tax on Ohio electric customers and a complete catastrophe for a balanced informed energy policy and good governance.