RALEIGH, N.C. – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration announced that it will finalize its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen at a White House event this Thursday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will formalize climate denialism as official government policy and move to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.
Washington, DC – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration announced that it will finalize its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen at a White House event this Thursday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will formalize climate denialism as official government policy and move to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation announced a new proposal to repeal an existing waiver and dramatically raise the domestic content requirement for electric vehicle charging stations–from 55 to 100 percent–for federal-aid highway projects, including the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI).
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In an extremely disappointing reversal, the Tennessee Valley Authority announced it is planning to keep its Kingston and Cumberland coal plants operating for the foreseeable future, blowing by its upcoming deadlines to close the polluting facilities. The nation’s largest federal utility had previously committed to shutting down these dirty and expensive plants, which was the basis of its plans for building new, multi-billion-dollar methane gas power plants at the Cumberland and Kingston sites.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The Sierra Club appealed the EPA’s approval of South Carolina’s do-nothing plan to reduce air pollution at our country's most wild and scenic national parks and wilderness areas. The Congressionally-approved Regional Haze program of the Clean Air Act is intended to reduce air pollution, including from coal plants, that impair visibility at our most prized public lands.
Phoenix, Ariz. – Today the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) approved a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility (CEC) for the gas-fired Baccara power plant, which would supply power to a new data center. The project would build 18 new gas-fired turbines–essentially large jet engines–and eighteen 72-foot high exhaust stacks adjacent to existing residential neighborhoods in Glendale, Surprise, and El Mirage, with 620 homes within 1 mile of the site.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump has signed a proclamation attempting to allow commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, off the coast of New England.
LAME DEER, MT — A Tribal Nation has issued a resolution opposing the Trump Administration’s executive order calling for a review of signs and exhibits at national parks and national monuments across the country, including the historic site of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency gave a group of polluters a 33-month extension to clean up coal ash dump sites. This is twice as long an extension as what the EPA had proposed last year.
Proposed changes at National Monument in Mississippi the latest in a string of censorship actions ordered by the Trump Administration