Albany, NY -- Today, Governor Cuomo announced $3 million in funding for municipalities and electricity cooperatives to purchase electric vehicles for their municipal fleets. The funding is part of the New York Power Authority’s Municipal Electric-Drive Vehicle Program, which provides financial assistance for the purchase of electric vehicles and hybrids to facilitate the replacement of fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate voted to confirm Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as Attorney General. In 1986, Sessions was deemed too racist to serve as a federal judge.
WASHINGTON DC – The states participating in the 2016-17 Program Review of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) hosted the first meeting of the year today to determine the future course of carbon pollution reductions in the region. Representatives from the nine participating states, and key stakeholder groups, discussed the latest assumptions for modeling of scenarios for reducing carbon pollution limits 2.5 to 3.5 percent annually from 2020 to 2030, along with other changes to the program’s structure.
Today, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to issue a stay of the US Environmental Protection Agency's final "regional haze" plan for Arkansas. This action threatens the implementation of a clean air protection that was years in the making and risks slowing progress on cleaning up the air in important Arkansas parks and wilderness areas.
Washington, DC – Today, Donald Trump’s Army Corps of Engineers cancelled the ongoing environmental impact review for the Dakota Access Pipeline and notified Congress that it has granted the final easement to allow the project to be completed.
Oklahoma City, Ok. -- Oklahoma Governor Fallin proposed a 0.5 cent per kilowatt hour tax on wind production and is invested on fast tracking the phasing out of tax incentives for the wind industry.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, Congressman Lamar Smith (TX-21) held a hearing of the House Science Committee to attack the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is driving climate change. Legislation dubbed the “Secret Science Reform Act” is also expected to be introduced in a deeply misguided effort to undermine climate action.
The House Homeland Security Committee today is holding a hearing to discuss security at the Southern border of the United States. Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is expected to testify about his plans for the border.
Washington, D.C. - Congressional Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, has introduced a bill in the House that would terminate the EPA by the end of 2018.
Washington, DC -- Today, just prior to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission losing a quorum, the commission approved the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline, which would carry fracked gas from Pennsylvania to South Carolina.