Crowds gathered today for a climate strike in front of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) state office in Santa Fe to protest the lease sale of 11,000 acres of public and ancestral tribal lands in Greater Chaco and Greater Carlsbad regions.
Today, the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources held a hearing on the nomination of former fossil fuel lobbyist David Bernhardt for Secretary of the Interior.
For the third year in a row, the number of coal-fired power plants under development worldwide dropped steeply in 2018, according to a new report released today by Global Energy Monitor, Greenpeace India, and the Sierra Club.
WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, Democratic Senators, led by Senator Tom Udall, introduced the companion bill to H.R. 1, the For the People Act, which passed the House earlier this month.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Democratic House leadership -- including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel, Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Frank Pallone and Select Committee Chair Kathy Castor -- introduced H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act.
Washington, DC -- Today, Mitch McConnell’s rushed political ploy to force a vote on Senator Markey and Representative Ocasio-Cortez’ nonbinding Green New Deal resolution prior to formal legislation being drafted or any hearings being held backfired. Rather than creating a political wedge, the theatrics and misinformation pushed by Senate Republicans exposed their lack of a sensible plan to combat climate change.
Washington, DC-- Moments ago, the House failed to pass a measure that would undo Trump’s veto on a bipartisan resolution to terminate his declaration of a national emergency. The legality of the president’s national emergency-- and its over $9 billion of diverted funds from critical security programs to construction of a border wall-- is now in the hands of the courts where numerous lawsuits against Trump’s declaration, including the Sierra Club and ACLU’s, will be considered.
Washington, DC-- Today, Rep. Lee and Sen. Hirono introduced the Women and Climate Act of 2019-- legislation aimed at developing coordinated strategies to mitigate the impact of climate change on women and girls around the world. Women make up 70% of the world’s one billion poorest people, and these women comprise the majority of our globe’s agricultural workforce, which is especially vulnerable to the effects of climate disruption. The bill would establish a Federal Interagency Working Group on Women and Climate Change within the U.S. Department of State.
Washington, DC-- This morning, the Pentagon authorized Congress to move $1 billion ofappropriated funding to build more walls on the US-Mexico border following Donald Trump’s emergency declaration.
Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good conceded that because “Atlantic Coast pipeline was sized and designed with a time frame,” the energy giant may need to move on to another project