FRISCO, Colo. - On Tuesday, May 14, the Frisco Town Council unanimously voted to approve a resolution committing the community to shift away from fossil fuels and transition to 100 percent clean, renewable electricity by 2035. The resolution can be found here.
Washington, DC-- Today, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining held a hearing on several public lands bills, including the Ruby Mountains Protection Act. Sen. Cortez Masto’s legislation would permanently prohibit oil and gas leasing anywhere within the Ruby Mountains’ Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The bill marks the first piece of federal legislation to safeguard the Rubies permanently-- a landscape that has been consistently under threat from the Trump administration’s oil and gas lease sales.
Washington, DC -- Today, legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives that would restore commonsense safeguards, currently under attack by the Trump administration, that limit methane pollution from the oil and gas industry. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 87 times more potent than carbon dioxide during the time it remains in the atmosphere.
The “Methane Waste Prevention Act of 2019” was introduced by Representative Diana DeGette, along with Representatives Raul Grijalva, Ben Ray Luján, Deb Haaland, and Alan Lowenthal.
Yesterday, the Trump Administration released an updated 2020 budget proposal after the original proposal received sharp criticism for it’s deep cuts to dedicated programs that protect the Great Lakes and other iconic bodies of water across the country.
The Trump Organization is facing $2.1 million a year in fines by New York City beginning in 2030 for excessive climate-disrupting emissions from its buildings, including Trump Tower.
Nationwide -- Throughout the month of April, the first ever annual Drive Electric Earth Day was held, with 188 events taking part across the United States, as well as Canada, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and New Zealand.
San Juan, Puerto Rico, -- Recent reporting in El Neuvo Dia revealed plans from coal company AES to relocate their infamous coal ash pile to be stored in Osceola County, Florida.
MARINA, Calif.— The Trump administration today finalized a plan 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. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan is an increase of nearly 327,000 acres from the draft proposal prepared under the Obama administration.
Washington, DC-- Today, the Trump administration announced they will steal $1.5 billion in Pentagon funds to construct 80 more miles of wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The move brings the total transferred out of the Pentagon budget for border walls to $2.5 billion.
Albany, N.Y.— The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) signed a finalized regulation today that will fully eliminate coal in New York by 2020. This regulation, years in the making and overwhelmingly supported by the public, is the first of its kind in the nation. The removal of coal-fired power is a critical step for the state to reach its goal of a 100 percent greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the electric sector by 2040.