Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club released more than 35,000 comments submitted to the National Park Service in response to Donald Trump’s efforts to whitewash history on public lands via the executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – In the past month, 304 West Virginians have submitted comments to Governor Patrick Morrisey expressing concerns over a $1.44 billion U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) loan to West Virginia utilities to refurbish six unnamed coal-fired power plants, extending their lives by up to 20 years. Regardless of how long the plants manage to continue operating, payments on the DOE loan will be passed on to West Virginians’ electric bills for decades.
INDIANAPOLIS – NIPSCO GenCo recently signed a 12-year contract with Halldor Energy Company to power new Google (Michigan City) and Amazon data centers with its Merom coal-fired power plant.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Sierra Club released new analysis and interactive dashboard that shows the staggeringly high energy burden low-income households are facing across the country.
Albany, NY -- New York lawmakers and the public were given their first look at the Transportation and Economic Development (TED) section of NY’s $268.5 billion state budget, mere hours before voting, concluding a secretive and one-sided negotiation process that delayed the State’s fiscal plan by nearly two months.
Representatives from the Good Neighbors Louisiana coalition dropped in on Hyundai’s offices in Gonzales to present the company with a list of demands regarding its proposed $5.8 billion steel mill in Donaldsonville, as well as comments filed with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) about the company’s failure to establish safeguards on toxic dust from transportation and construction.
HARTFORD, Conn. - Enbridge has unveiled “Project Beacon,” a proposal to expand the so-called “Algonquin” Pipeline, a name appropriated from the Indigenous people of the region, by installing larger methane gas pipelines and new pipe routes. The gas pipeline runs from New Jersey to Massachusetts, through New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island carrying methane gas from the Marcellus shale region in Appalachia.
Phoenix, Ariz.
HELENA -- Today Montana Senators Tim Sheehy and Steve Daines voted to approve Steve Pearce as Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate voted to approve the nomination of ex-congressman Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Management by a vote of 46 - 43.