Washington, D.C. - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the launch of the 2024 Clean School Bus Rebates Program, which will offer funding for school districts to move dirty diesel buses off their routes and transition to a cleaner school bus fleet. EPA will accept applications through January 9, 2025 and expects to award $965 million for new, zero-emission and clean school buses.
During Climate Week, North American members of the Sustainable Steel Buyers Platform launched a bidding process asking steelmakers to deliver 1 million metric tons per year of near-zero emissions steel by 2028.
SAN FRANCISCO — A public letter to Mayor Breed signed by 47 local and statewide groups, along with the turnout of over 50 people at a Tuesday Board of Supervisors Meeting, is adding to growing public pressure for San Francisco to drop its ongoing lawsuit against the EPA.
Today, the White House Task Force on Climate, Trade, and Industrial Competitiveness announced that the Department of Energy will build rigorous, timely, and accurate statistics on the greenhouse gas intensity of certain energy-intensive industrial products. The data will then be used to develop a greenhouse gas intensity measurement tool that would be adopted here and abroad.
The Department of the Interior announced today $254.68 million in grants to communities through the National Park Service’s Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, a federal judge approved a motion by conservation groups to join in the defense of a Biden administration rule that makes it easier for individuals and community organizations to report problems related to coal mining directly to federal regulators. Citizens Coal Council, Appalachian Voices, the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Kentucky Resources Council, filed a motion on Sept.
Washington, DC – CHIPS Communities United (CCU), a coalition of unions, environmental, social justice, civil rights, and community groups, raised concerns about the contract between the CHIPS Program Office (CPO) and Polar Semiconductor company of Bloomington, MN.
HARTFORD, CT. – Today, a group of Connecticut’s climate and energy justice organizations rallied at the State Capitol in opposition to gas expansion and Enbridge’s proposed Project Maple. Together, the groups hand-delivered a letter signed by 30 state and local elected officials to the offices of Governor Ned Lamont and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) Commissioner Katie Dykes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Forest Service has received more than 1 million comments over four comment periods urging it to protect mature and old-growth trees and forests from logging. A 90-day public comment period on the agency’s National Old Growth Amendment Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) ended Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Today, a coalition of non-profit environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Heal the Bay, and San Francisco Baykeeper, filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil (“Exxon”), the world’s largest producer of single-use plastic polymers.