October 15, 2017
The Rover pipeline has been spilling gasoline in an ongoing, days-long discharge into a Pinckney, Michigan wetland.
Press Releases
October 13, 2017
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), after recently regaining a quorum, granted federal approval for the fracked gas Atlantic Coast (ACP) and Mountain Valley (MVP) pipelines.
October 13, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC - Donald Trump has picked Kathleen Hartnett White, a fossil fuel industry apologist and aggressive opponent of environmental and public health protections, to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
October 13, 2017
TEXAS -- Luminant Energy’s announcement to close three of the nation’s largest and dirtiest coal plants in Central Texas means that more than half of the coal plants in America have retired or committed to retire since 2010.
October 12, 2017
Jackson, Mississippi - Today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt, met with officials and media in Mississippi to promote rollbacks to the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP provides states a road map for a common sense approach to carbon pollution reduction goals, the flexibility to design the plan that achieves these reductions and provides incentives to states to do so.
October 12, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last night, Politico reported on a draft document from Scott Pruitt’s EPA that would not only foreclose any possibility of a meaningful Clean Power Plan replacement, but would open the door to attacks on the proven scientific and legal principles supporting EPA’s duty to protect the health of the public from dangerous greenhouse gas pollution.
October 12, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC - Donald Trump went on an extended twitter tirade against the people of Puerto Rico this morning, tweeting among other things that the U.S. Island was alone responsible for its financial crisis, and threatening to abandon any long term commitment to recovery efforts. The vast majority of the Puerto Rico still lacks electricity and many have no clean water to speak of.
October 12, 2017
Concord, N.H. —Results of the auction involving Eversource’s (formerly Public Service Company of New Hampshire) power plants were announced today, including Atlas Holdings and Castleton Commodities International as the proposed buyers of the Merrimack and Schiller coal-fired power plants. The Public Utilities Commission of New Hampshire still must approve the sale after a formal review process.
October 12, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Representative Fred Upton (MI-6) introduced a bill that will weaken vehicle fuel economy safeguards. The bill is another attempt by automakers to roll back the consumer and climate protections they agreed to under the Obama administration.