Local consumers and clean energy advocates gathered in front of their electric utility’s headquarters to Carol for Clean Energy, telling Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) they don’t want higher bills and more coal pollution this holiday season; they want 100 percent renewable energy.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House Natural Resources Committee today will hold a hearing on the Grand Staircase-Escalante Enhancement Act, HR 4588. Contrary to what the name implies, the bill would codify President Trump’s illegal proclamation cutting Grand Staircase-Escalante by half.
In anticipation, Dalal Aboulhosn, Sierra Club deputy legislative director, issued the following statement:
Washington, DC -- Today, Bloomberg reported that former chemical industry consultant and Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, Michael Dourson, withdrew his name for consideration. Dourson has faced mounting pressure from Democrats and Republicans in recent weeks, with 50 senators already committing to vote against his nomination.
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) issued a decision approving a bailout for NIPSCO’s Schahfer and Michigan City coal-burning power plants, despite uncontested evidence that shows that retiring these plants would save customers money.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- According to reports, Sen. Murkowski has confirmed that a provision opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling is included in the final tax scheme proposal. The provision would effectively remove the sensitive coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the refuge system, opening the entire 1.5 million acres to drilling. The provision ignores the importance of the area to the Gwich’in Nation, as well as a host of environmental safeguards, and cost realities that make raising the estimated revenue from drilling in the Arctic Refuge nearly impossible.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Following the election of Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate from Alabama, the Sierra Club is joining the call to push for Jones to be seated as soon as possible and for any votes on the Republican tax scheme to be delayed until that happens, in line with logic used by Senate Republicans following the election of Scott Brown in 2010.
Washington, DC -- Today, Donald Trump’s nominee to the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, was caught having plagiarized at least 18 of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Air Administrator Bill Wehrum answers to Senate questions.
Today, in a 4-3 vote, the Virginia State Water Control Board (Board) conditionally approved the fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), but put off a final decision until the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) can weigh in on additional plans from the pipeline’s builders. The project has generated intense public opposition due to expectations it will irrevocably degrade waterways and evidence the pipeline’s backers used self-dealing to justify demand.
Sierra Club applauds this decision to uphold the limits on mining on public lands adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park.