Today, the Senate appropriations committee voted for a budget amendment to reinstate $10 million in funding for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the international body that oversees the Paris Climate Agreement. The committee rejected an amendment to provide $750 million to the Green Climate Fund, which would provide assistance for countries most vulnerable to the climate crisis.
An economic analysis released today by Synapse Energy Economics found that CPS Energy has likely been losing money by operating its outdated Spruce 1 and Spruce 2 coal-burning units at the Calaveras power plant over the past several years and would likely continue to do so into the future.
Today, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Center for Biological Diversity, filed a petition for review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) July 12 decision to unlawfully delay an Obama Administration rule that increased penalties for automakers that don’t meet the fuel economy standards.
Donald Trump’s tax speech showed that he continues to deceive the public about his own environmental policies when he claimed, in contrast to everything he has done in office, that he wants “crystal clean air and water.”
A new study released today by the City of Denver Department of Environmental Health shows that transitioning Denver to 100 percent clean and renewable energy is vital for the city to achieve its carbon pollution reduction goals.
Late yesterday, the Sierra Club filed objections to the United States Forest Service's proposal to facilitate the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) by weakening crucial provisions of the forest plan for the Monongahela and George Washington National Forests in West Virginia and Virginia.
Later today, Donald Trump will be giving what has been framed as a tax reform speech at an oil refinery in Mandan, ND, where he’ll be joined by Scott Pruitt, Rick Perry, and Ryan Zinke. But just who is he hoping to reform taxes for? Trump has consistently called for lowering the statutory corporate tax rate from 35% to 15% to “help grow businesses-- a massive tax cuts for industries like the one hosting his speech today. Still, Trump neglects to note the billions in subsidies offered to the fossil fuel industry already.
Sierra Club Michigan Chapter today called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to maintain current fuel economy standards that protect our air, land and Great Lakes. Under the Trump Administration, the EPA is reconsidering previously finalized clean cars standards that reduce tailpipe carbon pollution, improve fuel economy, and combat climate change.
Today, Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a hearing for their reconsideration of light duty vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards for model years 2021-2025.
Today in the midst of a national emergency along the Gulf Coast, Donald Trump’s Attorney General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, is set to announce the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, leaving it up to congress to protect the more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants in the program.