Pittsburgh, PA -- The Pennsylvania Department of the Environmental Protection (DEP) hosted a public hearing yesterday on its drafted update to the water pollution permit for the Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant. The plant owned by FirstEnergy, is a 2,700 megawatt plant located on the Ohio River in Beaver County. It is currently the largest coal plant in the state, and one of the largest remaining plants in the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in an interview with Washington Post Reporter Juliet Eilperin, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, after admitting to not reading the entire National Climate Assessment even though his own agency played a key role in drafting it. He dismissed the assessment, wrongly implying the data is political, while taking credit for pollution reductions resulting from Obama administration policies. Wheeler’s EPA has rolled back carbon pollution protections, including repealing the Clean Power Plan and a gutting methane safeguards. Since he became Acting Administrator, Wheeler has taken action that harms public health on average of every three days.
Oakland, CA -- The Sierra Club welcomes more than 3.5 million members, volunteers and supporters across 63 chapters and even more groups, whose collective influence advances climate change action, protects the environment, and advocates for healthy communities and numerous issue campaigns across the country.
Yesterday in an interview with the Washington Post, Donald Trump doubled down on his climate denial, dismissing the National Climate Assessment recently released by his own government and denying man-made climate change.
WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual emissions gap report, detailing how the world’s countries are not doing enough to curb carbon emissions. According to the report, global emissions continued to rise in 2017, and it is unlikely that they will peak by 2020, despite the critical need to reduce emissions in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Hill reported that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke dismissed the recently released multi-agency National Climate Assessment that details the catastrophic impacts of climate change on our economy, health, and way of life. Zinke accused the assessment’s authors of using only worst-case scenarios, despite confirmation from one of the authors of the assessment that “it considers ALL scenarios, from those where we go carbon negative before end of century to those where carbon emissions continue to rise.”
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee reported out the nomination of coal bailout architect Bernard McNamee for the technology neutral Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
WASHINGTON-- The recently released National Climate Assessment shows that swift action is critical to protecting communities from the heavy financial and environmental costs of climate change. However, with all the warnings in plain sight, energy utilities across the country still plan to build out a slew of new fossil fuel projects across the United States.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Associated Press reported that Donald Trump doesn’t believe the multi-agency assessment his own government released that details the catastrophic impacts of climate change on our economy, health, and way of life. In 2017, Trump’s golf course in Scotland was granted permits to build two sea walls to protect the course from rising sea levels due to climate disruption.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the United States Global Change Research Program released the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II on the effects climate change is and will have on the United States if immediate action is not taken. This july heat records were shattered all over the world, and this year the U.S. saw several devastatingly strong and deadly hurricanes and wildfires, taking the lives of hundreds and upending the lives of thousands.