Today, international financial services company NN Group announced that it will withdraw funding for tar sands pipeline companies including TransCanada and Enbridge, the companies behind Keystone XL and Line 3, respectively, citing concerns about climate impact and human rights abuses associated with tar sands pipelines.
WASHINGTON, DC - Sierra Club Independent Action unveiled its official voter guide for the 2018 midterms Monday, an important resource for millions of environmentally concerned voters who are mobilizing ahead of the November midterm elections.
Zinke Keeps Giving Government Contracts to Whitefish Energy, Turns His Back on a Veteran, And His Super PAC Mocks Sexual Assault Survivors, All While Angling for a New Job
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee announced today that it will take up the nomination of coal bailout architect Bernard McNamee to FERC next week in a hurried political move to inject the Trump administration’s political agenda of backing unnecessary fracked gas pipelines and supporting a nationwide coal bailout into the historically independent agency.
Washington, DC -- Yesterday, in Bali, Indonesia, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim confirmed that the World Bank is officially not supporting a new coal-fired power plant in Kosovo. Asked by Visar Azemi, Executive Director of the Balkan Green Foundation, where the World Bank stood on its pending support of the proposed 500-megawatt Kosovo C coal-fired power plant, Dr. Kim confirmed the Bank would not be providing financing. Kosovo C is the last coal plant being considered for financing by the World Bank. The Bank is now out of coal for good.
From the IPCC report warnings that we only have a little more than a decade left to act to avoid the most catastrophic effects of the climate crisis, to the historic force of Hurricane Michael, to the Trump Administration increasing pollution despite knowing of the catastrophic impacts of climate disruption, to acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheelers highly problematic social media posts, Sarah Huckabee Sanders needs to answer for the White House’s inaction to solve the climate crisis.
Washington, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that it will waive environmental laws in order to construct gates between sections of border barriers in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley.
We already knew acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler had some problematic likes and comments on social media (tweeting “Milo Truther” conspiracy tweets, tweeting an implication that South Korean musician PSY and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un are the same person, etc.) but the tweets, likes and comments uncovered by the Huffington Post today, are a new low.
WORCESTER - Hundreds of people rallied at Institute Park in Worcester to demand elected leaders take action to create a safe, healthy, sustainable, and equitable future. This event was one of over 400 taking place simultaneously around the world. Ralliers stood in solidarity with marchers in San Francisco who flooded the streets demanding action from governors and business leaders at the Global Climate Action Summit, while communities across the nation came together to galvanize engagement in the midterm elections.
BOSTON, MA— On September 8th, hundreds of people mobilized in East Boston to protest a planned Eversource high-voltage electric substation, and rallied for better, safer jobs; common-sense protections for immigrants; and bold action on climate change. The mobilization was one of more than 480 around the world. In San Francisco tens of thousands of people flooded the streets demanding action from governors and business leaders at the Global Climate Action Summit, while communities across the nation came together to galvanize engagement in the midterm elections.