OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- At noon on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, the Sierra Club will hold a rally opposing OG&E’s proposed rate hike. OG&E is requesting to force ratepayers to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for excessively costly work on OG&E’s Sooner coal-burning power plant. The rally will take place prior to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission's (OCC) hearing on the rate increase, the afternoon of Tuesday, May 28, and there will be space for media.
Ohio Clean Air Program” anything but clean
Virginians rallied at bank branches across the state yesterday to call on major banks to pull their support for the fossil fuel industry.
Environmental justice advocates and residents of Robeson County traveled to Charlotte to urge DEQ and the NCDEQ Environmental Justice Advisory & Equity Board to scrutinize Duke Energy’s plans for a dirty, dangerous liquified natural gas (LNG) facility in their community.
La Junta Directiva del Sierra Club reeligió el domingo a Loren Blackford de Nueva York como la presidenta de la mayor organización ambiental de base de Estados Unidos.
Annapolis, M.D.--Thanks to the efforts of the Maryland General Assembly, the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) will become law. The bill will accelerate the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 50% by 2030 and include a huge leap in solar energy combined with quadrupling the state’s commitment to offshore wind. Additionally, the bill will provide funding for small, minority, veteran, and women-owned businesses, and require the state to develop a pathway to reach 100% renewable energy by 2040. On the coattails of the bill becoming law, Governor Hogan officially committed to introducing legislation in the 2020 session that would move Maryland to 100% clean energy by 2040.
Varios medios informaron ayer que el ex cabildero carbonero y hoy administrador de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA), Andrew Wheeler, envió un memorando a varias oficinas de la EPA ordenándoles que cambien la manera de calcular los costos y beneficios de las protecciones ambientales para reducir el uso de métodos científicos en el desarrollo de nuevas reglas.
esterday, media outlets reported that former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler sent a memo to several EPA offices, directing them to change how they calculate cost and benefits for environmental protection in an effort to undercut the agency’s use of peer reviewed science in the development of new rules.
Oakland, CA -- On Sunday, the Sierra Club’s Board of Directors voted to re-elect Loren Blackford of New York as President of the nation’s largest grassroots environmental organization.
Athens, GA -- Tonight, the Athens-Clarke County (ACC) Commission unanimously voted to adopt a community wide goal of 100 percent clean and renewable electricity by 2035.