WASHINGTON, DC -- Today marks the end of the public comment period for a U.S. Forest Service proposal to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Act ensures environmental analysis of projects affecting public lands and forests. The proposed changes clear the way for increased logging, mining and other destructive development in our forests, even as world scientists stress the urgency of protecting and restoring forests to combat the climate crisis.
Recent tests conducted by the Sierra Club have shown that drinking water is contaminated in neighborhoods around Consumers Energy's J.H. Campbell Coal Plant in West Olive. Results found elevated levels of arsenic, lead, and radium in homes that draw their water from private wells.
Austin, TX -- Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to “correct”(more accurately, abandon) its determination that three areas around the largest and dirtiest coal plants in Texas--Luminant’s Martin Lake, Big Brown, and Monticello plants--are failing to meet the public health standards set for sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution.
Donald Trump skipped the G-7 climate session with other world leaders where they discussed climate solutions and the Amazon rainforest fires, claiming he had scheduled bilateral meetings with Germany and India at that time. Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the climate session.
Yesterday, leaked documents revealed that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been actively working to undermine conservation efforts and uproot indigenous communities that live in the rainforest in order to profit business allies. His anti-environment policies have led to an unprecedented increase in illegal logging and rainforest destruction.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Today the Department of the Interior released a final management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, despite ongoing legal challenges to the Trump administration’s illegal actions to shrink the monument. The plan opens significant portions of Grand Staircase to dirty fuel development.
Houston, TX -- On Thursday, August 29 at 12:45pm, a crowd of local environmental and Indigenous activists will rally outside an appearance by BP America chairman and president Susan Dio to call on her to pledge that BP will not pursue drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Ignoring concerns from local landowners, Tribes, and environmental groups, the Nebraska Supreme Court today affirmed the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) approval of a route for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through the state.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The DNC resolution committee voted against holding a climate debate thursday. The issue is likely to be presented again during the DNC's general session over the weekend.
Vistra Energy announced today that it is closing its coal burning power plants in Canton, Havana, Hennepin, and Coffeen.