(Oklahoma City) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding a public hearing tomorrow on a federal proposal put forth in conjunction with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) regarding the handling of coal ash pollution in Oklahoma. For decades, companies have dumped coal ash and waste that is left over from coal-burning power plants into ponds and landfills. These coal ash ponds and landfills often lack liners to prevent contaminants from leaking out, and also are often sited near waterways.
Boston, MA -The Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change released an omnibus energy bill today titled An Act to Promote a Clean Energy Future. The bill includes numerous provisions to advance clean energy, and also help communities deal with the effects of climate change. The bipartisan Committee voted unanimously in favor of the bill.
Today, the Minnesota Department of Commerce provided revisions to its final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled in December that the FEIS was inadequate, though they sidestepped a number of concerns that have been raised by Minnesotans and several state agencies including numerous calculation errors and a failure to adequately explore alternatives to this pipeline expansion or any no-build scenario.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Donald Trump released a plan to roll back environmental protections and privatize public works projects under the guise of an “infrastructure” proposal. Previous Washington Post reporting on the White House proposal exposed Trump’s aggressive efforts to gut environmental protections in an effort to make it easier for corporations to build dangerous pipelines and other environmentally destructive projects.
Washington, DC -- On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that, even after he was discovered and publicly admonished for taking private plane travel, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has repeatedly flown first class at the taxpayers’ expense. The more than $70,000 in private travel includes:
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) filed a letter revealing that on January 22, there was a leak from two tanks at the Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility.
Montana makes right choice on grizzly hunt.
San Diego, CA-- Today, advocates gathered in Southern California near a federal courthouse before a federal judge heard a legal challenge against the border wall. The U.S. District Court in Southern California listened to Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and Animal Legal Defense Fund's arguments against the administration’s waivers of key health and environmental safeguards for wall construction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club and the Gulf Restoration Network filed a lawsuit in D.C. Circuit Court challenging the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to consult with wildlife agencies to ensure that its 2018 renewable fuel volume standards do not jeopardize federally listed species. The dramatic land conversion that has occurred as a result of federal mandates to increase corn-based renewable fuels has had adverse impacts on habitat and species, including exacerbating the “Dead Zone” off the Gulf of Mexico.