WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday evening, McClatchy reported that EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler sent a letter to California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nicols threatening sanctions against California, including cuts in federal highway funding.
Today the House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife will hold a hearing a suite of bills to strengthen protections for endangered species. Included is the Protect America’s Wildlife and Fish in Need (PAW and FIN) of Conservation Act, which reverses recent Trump administration rollbacks to the highly successful Endangered Species Act. The hearing comes at the same time the Western Caucus is holding a roundtable to unveil a number of bills that would further undermine endangered species protections.
Los Angeles, CA -- Today, the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning released an initial draft update to the safety standards governing the Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oil field in the country.
Air pollution reduction systems at Duke Energy’s Allen Steam Station near Belmont are not working efficiently, and the rate at which nitrogen oxides are emitted by the plant has increased in recent years, according to a report commissioned by the Sierra Club.
Today a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that halts, for now, the initial phase of the largest timber sale approved by the U.S. Forest Service in 30 years.
ARLINGTON, VA -- On Saturday, the Arlington County Board unanimously voted to adopt a new Community Energy Plan (CEP) after a two-year review and update.
As a result of a legal challenge to a massive proposed petrochemical facility in Belmont County, the company behind the project will implement several critical air pollution concerns that state regulators failed to address.
On Saturday, September 28, hundreds of people will gather on the shores of Gichi-gami—Lake Superior— in Duluth for a rally and march to express their ongoing opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Today marks the end of a public comment period for the Trump administration’s proposed management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The plan, being pushed forward despite ongoing legal challenges to the administration’s efforts to shrink the monument, opens significant portions of the remaining monument to dirty fuel development. More than 8,000 public comments were submitted in opposition to the Trump administration’s plan.
HOUSTON, TX - Tropical Depression Imelda deluged southeast Texas on Thursday. The region, including Beaumont, Port Arthur, Houston, and Orange, has been inundated with torrential rain that has caused devastating flooding, shutting down highways and leaving thousands of stranded residents in need of rescue. Many of the same areas which are still recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey have been flooded and otherwise impacted once again. An emergency has been declared by the mayor of Beaumont and the Governor of Texas. Despite the fact that Houston schools are shut down today, hundreds of students are marching in the streets as part of the global Youth Climate Strike today. Today also marks the 2 year anniversary of the destruction brought to Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria.