WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club began airing a TV ad on Fox and Friends and Morning Joe calling for Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt. The ads will air on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. The ad is part of the Boot Pruitt campaign, a coordinated effort among several groups aimed at forcing Pruitt from office.
A second owner of the Colstrip coal plant will pay off their outstanding debt by 2027, paving the way for an earlier closure of the largest single source of climate pollution in the American West.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, the Commerce Department announced that it will be including a question about citizenship status in the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census. The modern Decennial Census has not included a citizenship question since 1950, and its inclusion in the upcoming census is widely seen as an effort to intimidate and discourage noncitizens and their families from responding to the census, a move that will affect the total count of Americans. Without an accurate count of every living person in America, the incomplete data will skew the drawing of political districts, the number of seats each state has in the House of Representatives, and the distribution of federal funding for local communities.
Yesterday evening, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced they had approved the Erosion and Sediment, Stormwater, and Karst Plans for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline
Yesterday, the Department of the Interior announced that it will seek to identify more ways to speed up permitting for offshore oil and gas drilling off America's coasts.
Washington, DC -- Today, CNN is reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has said, "diversity isn't important," "I don't care about diversity," and "I don't really think that's important anymore." These reports come shortly after Zinke made a racially insensitive remark -- and doubled down on it -- to Congres
The Sierra Club filed its opening brief in an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court. It's the next step in the effort to ensure a deal for fracked gas shipping capacity is reviewed for conflicts of interest.
Charleston, WEST VIRGINIA -Lack of federal funding has terminated a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine study on the health effects of mountaintop coal removal in Central Appalachia. Trump has been slowly and quietly dismantling the study since last fall, when the Department of Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) halted the work due to an agency wide review of grants and agreements over $100,000.
On Friday, a federal court found a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plan allowing coal mining and oil and gas drilling on over 15 million acres of public land and mineral rights in Montana and Wyoming to be unlawful.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. and South Korea reached an agreement “in principle” on the six-year-old U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) in which, among other things, South Korea has agreed to double the number of higher-polluting U.S. vehicles that may be imported each year without having to meet Korea’s stricter auto emissions standards. South Korea also agreed to consider the weaker U.S. standards when developing their 2021-2025 auto emissions standards.