WASHINGTON, DC - In a shocking report this morning, The Intercept reveals that the coal lobbyist nominated to be #2 at EPA, Andrew Wheeler, hosted fundraisers for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chairman as well as the immediate past chairman months after he was already the presumptive nominee.
On February 6, 2018, the City of Denton, TX became the second municipality in Texas and the 58th city nationwide to transition to 100% clean and renewable sources of energy.
FirstEnergy subsidiaries Monongahela Power and Potomac Edison have rejected conditions that the West Virginia Public Service Commission (PSC) imposed for the transfer of the Pleasants Power Station. Additionally, the companies will not seek rehearing of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) order that rejected the transfer for not being consistent with the public interest. These decisions put into the question the fate of the coal plant, raising the possibility that it could soon retire.
LA City Council Takes Major Step Toward Electrifying Buildings LOS ANGELES, C.A. -- Today, the Los Angeles City Council voted to direct the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to establish building electrification targets in its 2018 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The targets should align with the city’s existing greenhouse gas reduction goals of 45% and 65% reductions by 2025 and 2035. The Council motion also takes steps to identify other strategies to reduce gas consumption in buildings and to study the costs and implications of zero emission buildings.
Late Friday, the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, on behalf of a coalition of environmental and community groups, filed a reply in support of their motion for a stay of construction of the fracked gas Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline
TODAY: Glendale City Council to Vote on Pausing Grayson Power Plant Expansion "Today, ahead of the Glendale City Council meeting, the Glendale Environmental coalition will call on the City Council to halt the Grayson Power Plant expansion and demand a study on clean energy alternatives to power the City of Glendale. As the state assembly revisits legislation to power all of California with 100% clean energy, this vote reinforces the momentum building for 100% renewable energy throughout the state."
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Wednesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote on whether to advance the nomination of a coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, to take over the #2 position at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Washington, DC -- Today, the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump’s nominee for the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, has withdrawn her name for consideration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Trump Administration released a Nuclear Posture review that seeks to expand the circumstances in which the United States will use nuclear weapons.
Today, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis released a new study which found that the coal industry continued to shrink in 2017, despite Donald Trump’s rhetoric during Tuesday’s State of the Union address and his continued efforts to undermine America’s fast growing clean energy economy.