Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency released their 2018 year in review report. While this year’s report featured far fewer pictures of disgraced EPA administrator Scott Pruitt (0) than the 2017 wrap-up, the same anti-environmental agenda is heavily touted.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Moments ago, Donald Trump announced he will sign Congressional Democrats’ proposal for a three-week continuing resolution, temporarily reopening the government. The backlog in pay to federal workers totals nearly $6 billion -- wages Trump doesn’t know when will be paid back. Trump also pushed a proposed Homeland Security legislation that would secure the funding for the wall. Again, Trump threatened to shut the government back down or declare a national emergency to construct his border wall should his demands continue to be rejected.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Trump McConnell bill to fund Trump’s needless border wall failed to pass the Senate by a vote of 51-47. The bill needed 60 votes to move forward.
In its newly released 2018 Sustainability Report, National Australia Bank has ruled out financing for drilling in the Arctic Refuge.
Last Friday, Sierra Club filed a brief in the Ingham County Circuit Court case on DTE’s nearly billion-dollar proposed gas plant, arguing that MDEQ did not follow the law when approving the air permit. Sierra Club initiated this case in October, but this is the first time it has laid out its arguments for the Court.
According to disclosures submitted to the non-profit CDP and reported yesterday by Bloomberg, Wells Fargo sees the climate crisis as an opportunity to make more money.
Florida Power and Light (FPL) announced they would install tens of millions of new solar panels by 2030. While this is a positive step forward, their announcement left out some crucial perspective.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump proposed a deal to end the shutdown he started that would include $5.7 billion for his border wall in exchange temporarily extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and legislation to extend the legal status of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders.
On January 18, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the “Clean Energy D.C. Omnibus Act of 2018,” a bold climate bill unanimously passed by the D.C. Council on December 18.
The Sierra Club and partner organizations filed an appeal today challenging a key permit for a massive proposed petrochemical facility known as an “ethane cracker” in Belmont County. The plant is part of the industry’s push to steeply increase U.S. plastic production.