After a series of backroom talks with Texas-based Dynegy, Governor Rauner’s Illinois EPA, is pushing to weaken Illinois air pollution standards in order to pad their own profits. In addition, Dynegy-Vistra is now also asking the state legislature for permission to raise rates on Central and Southern Illinois households, claiming that ratepayer-funded bailouts are needed to keep coal plants open due to the company’s financial hardship. However, the recent $20 billion merger between Dynegy and Vistra Energy tells a different story, as does a recent interview with Vistra’s CEO highlighted in Sierra Club’s video.
Washington State's Utilities and Transportation Commission had some strong words for Puget Sound Energy over their continued use of the Colstrip coal plant in Eastern Montana - the largest source of climate pollution in the Western United States.
With new information breaking daily on embattled Scott Pruitt’s countless scandals, White House staff are fed up with trying to weather the Pruitt storm. According to the New York Times, White House staff are continuing to urge Donald Trump to fire Pruitt, calling Pruitt’s scandals “a bottomless pit.”
DETROIT – A 2006 Ford Focus – dubbed the “Dirty Ford” and stuffed with banker boxes carrying more than a quarter million petition signatures – is heading to Ford Motor Company today with a message: Stop working to roll back the clean car standards.
Ford and other automakers have worked behind the scenes to persuade President Donald Trump, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to roll back the clean car standards.
On Saturday, May 12, the Grassroots Green Homes initiative will officially kick-off in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, helping residents reduce energy burdens by increasing energy efficiency in their homes.
Hundreds will gather in support of the Lummi Nation’s mission to bring their beloved orca, Tokitae, back to her native waters and family in the Salish Sea. Tokitae is the last living killer whale taken from Penn Cove in the Salish Sea 47 years ago, and remains in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium.
Hundreds will gather in support of the Lummi Nation’s mission to bring their beloved orca, Tokitae, back to her native waters and family in the Salish Sea. Tokitae is the last living killer whale taken from Penn Cove in the Salish Sea 47 years ago, and remains in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Sierra Club has secured over 24,000 pages of EPA emails, calls logs, and documents which expose the culture of corruption in and around Scott Pruitt at the EPA through successful litigation under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
According to reporting by Axios, Donald Trump isn’t happy about all of the negative press Scott Pruitt’s been getting. A source close to Trump told Axios that the president raised the fact that a member of Pruitt’s press team has sought to sell negative stories about Interior secretary Ryan Zinke in conversation and said, "That's not good."
DES MOINES, IA -- Today, SF2311, the controversial bill gutting energy efficiency programs and reducing regulatory oversight for the Iowa’s electric utilities, became law with Governor Reynolds signature. Consumer advocates say the new law will significantly increase costs for electricity customers. The law prompted widespread opposition from Iowa families and businesses. Despite broad and vocal opposition from constituents the bill passed both state houses, becoming law today with Governor Reynolds’ signature.