TALLAHASSEE, FLA—Today, in the Florida Supreme Court, the Sierra Club appealed the Public Service Commission’s decision to force FPL customers to pay for the utility’s aggressive expansion of fracked gas infrastructure, despite failing to prove it’s necessary.
Norfolk, NE -- Today, Nebraska landowners and other pipeline opponents attended the third of three public hearings held by the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to voice their serious concerns about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The House Natural Resources Committee today passed several bills out of committee, including the King Cove Land Exchange Act, H.R. 218, and the Resilient Federal Forest Act, H.R. 2936. Both bills would damage the environment and undermine longstanding environmental safeguards.
In response Athan Manuel, director of public lands policy for the Sierra Club issued the following statement.
NEW YORK CITY-- The nine Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) states hosted the next in a series of stakeholder meetings today in their 2016-2017 RGGI program review to establish limits on carbon pollution emissions from the region’s electric sector between 2020 and 2030. During today’s meeting state officials reviewed modeling of policy scenarios to be considered in the program review, with the hopes of deciding on a scenario in the coming months.
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, climate change denying, fossil fuel ally EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt testified before Senate Appropriations Committee to review the FY2018 budget cuts targeting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its core programs.
In response, Melinda Pierce, Sierra Club’s Legislative Director, released the following statement:
NEW YORK CITY-- The nine Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) states hosted the next in a series of stakeholder meetings today in their 2016-2017 RGGI program review to establish limits on carbon pollution emissions from the region’s electric sector between 2020 and 2030. During today’s meeting state officials reviewed potential policy scenarios to be considered in the program review, with the hopes of deciding on a scenario in the coming months.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, announced that he will be repealing the 2015 Clean Water Rule that provided vital clean water protections against dangerous pollution contaminating America’s waterways and drinking water supplies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House’s Natural Resources Committee strengthened and then passed the RECLAIM Act out of committee - an important step toward the bill’s passage through Congress. The RECLAIM Act commits $1 billion to economic development and diversification projects that clean up abandoned coal mines, while also prioritizing public input and community participation on which projects are chosen and how they are run.
Harrisburg, PA--The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed SB 624 today, which creates an exemption to an 80 year old law that protects streams and water supplies. The bill would allow mining companies to predictably damage or pollute streams based on a promise to clean them up later, instead of preventing the damage in the first place.