Rapid City, South Dakota -- A crowd of concerned residents gathered today downtown to protest Interior Secretary Zinke’s failed public lands policies, including his efforts to reopen the Southwest Black Hills to toxic uranium mining. If allowed to move forward, the proposed mine would hand over more than 10,000 acres of land to radioactive and destructive mining, much of it subject to Bureau of Land Management mineral claims.
Today, a coalition of environmental advocates filed a petition for judicial review that could again halt construction of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline
San Francisco, CA – Earthjustice filed suit today on behalf of the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth in federal court in the Northern District of California to pry loose suspected new agency guidelines around transparency at the Department of Interior put in place under Secretary Ryan Zinke. The lawsuit comes amid a deeply problematic culture of secrecy that has taken root in the Department of the Interior, keeping the American public in the dark about major decisions, important records, and meetings with industry that affect the lands and resources the agency holds in trust for the American people.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting immigrants and refugees from Muslim majority countries.
Migrant tent city sites have poisoned water.
As of the midnight deadline on Monday, more than 189,000 public comments were submitted to the U.S. State Department in strong opposition to the Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline. They challenge the Trump Administration’s rubber-stamp approval of a federal permit and proposed sham environmental review for a dirty energy project that would abuse eminent domain, trample sovereign Native rights, and threaten our land, water and climate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week, the US Senate approved its first funding package of the year, a package of 3 funding bills that includes Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Compared to the House passed 3-funding bill minibus last week, the Senate package is largely free from new anti-environmental poison pill riders.
The Owensboro Municipal Utilities Commission voted to approve a power supply plan that includes a power purchase agreement (PPA) for eight years of coal-fired generation from Big Rivers Electric Corporation’s aging coal fleet, plus a PPA for 30-36 MW of solar power to be purchased in cooperation with Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency (KyMEA).
From day one, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has constantly put himself in hot water. But with all the bad news from the past few days, the pot Scott Pruitt is standing in isn’t just boiling, it’s boiling over.
Rapid City, South Dakota -- Secretary Zinke will be speaking to the Western Governors Association at Mount Rushmore, our nation’s preeminent monument, the morning of June 26. The irony of this venue is not lost in the wake of Zinke’s radical reduction of national monuments including Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah.
Groups will be protesting Zinke’s presence and failed policies in downtown Rapid City.