WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, BP released a report showing global carbon emissions increasing 2 percent over the last year, with U.S. energy consumption increasing 3.5 percent. Donald Trump and EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler have consistently touted U.S. emissions falling.
On Monday, the St. Louis Park Public School Board passed a Climate Leadership Resolution establishing the goal of transitioning the school district to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 while also achieving 100 percent clean energy.
Salt Lake City, UT-- Earlier today, opponents of the Trump administration’s plan to auction off nearly 10,000 acres of public land for oil and gas drilling near the Great Salt Lake protested the lease sale outside of Gov. Gary Herbert’s office.
BILLINGS, Mont. – Today, Talen Energy announced that the oldest coal-burning units at the Colstrip coal plant in Colstrip, Montana will retire by the end of the year, two and a half years earlier than required under an earlier legal settlement. Units 1 and 2 – which were built in the 1970s – have faced serious problems remaining competitive as energy markets shift dramatically.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Ten environmental groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge rollbacks of the 2016 Well Control and Blowout Preventer Rule, a safety regulation meant to prevent another blowout like what happened during the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.
East Hampton, NY —Today, environmental, labor and local organizations, and residents attended an East Hampton hearing where they urged the New York Public Service Commission to move forward expeditiously on the permitting process to ensure New York’s first offshore wind farm gets built.
Environmental and community groups gather in Bakersfield today to oppose the Trump administration’s draft plan to open more than a million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to oil drilling and fracking.
Montgomery County, MD -- Two weeks after a Maryland Circuit Court ruled against a coal company’s efforts to block clean water safeguards at its Chalk Point power plant in Prince George’s County, another Circuit Court judge rejected the same company’s attempt to challenge a Clean Water Act permit for its Dickerson plant in Montgomery County.
Charleston, WV -- Today, West Virginia governor and perennial legal defendant Jim Justice attacked thousands of grassroots activists and everyday West Virginians working to address the climate crisis and harmful pollution by moving America off of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, policy that would support coal communities in transition and ensure workers have a pension sits on a shelf. Justice decried Michael Bloomberg’s “Beyond Carbon” initiative, suggesting that West Virginia continue to rely on deadly, outdated fossil fuels such as coal, as the United States quickly moves to a clean energy economy.
The Michigan Public Service Commission approved Consumers Energy long-term resource plan that includes significant investments in clean energy. Environmental organizations including Michigan Environmental Council (MEC), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Sierra Club, represented by Olson, Bzdok & Howard and Earthjustice, advocated for significant increases in energy efficiency programs, renewable energy investments and the retirement of the utility’s coal fleet.