WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Sierra Club welcomed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's Friday announcement of new actions to protect the Greater Chaco region and said it should be part of a new focus on prioritizing conservation on federal public lands. Haaland unveiled a new order withdrawing public lands within a 10-mile radius of Chaco Culture National Historical Park for a period of 20 years.
Lake Charles, LA — Over the weekend, residents of Southwest Louisiana experienced three industrial emergencies. A fire, reportedly caused by a lightning strike, burned from yesterday afternoon until early this morning at the Calcasieu Refining Company, an oil refinery in Lake Charles.
CA & NY – Ahead of Toyota’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) later this month, two of the nation’s largest pension systems – California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the Office of the New York City Comptroller – just voted against the re-election of Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda and in support of a resolution urging Toyota to improve disclosure of its lobbying on climate change.
ALBUQUERQUE— In response to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s decision today to prohibit new federal oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, members of the Greater Chaco Coalition called on the Biden administration to end all new federal fossil fuel leasing across the country.
Washington, DC – The Senate passed the debt limit deal that will allow the nation to pay its bills, but sets a dangerous precedent for fossil fuel companies to circumvent environmental reviews for fossil fuel projects.
David Tudor, CEO and General Manager of Associated Electric Cooperative Incorporated (AECI), provided testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the reliability of electric systems. AECI supplies 51 local electric cooperatives in Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma while running two of the dirtiest coal plants in the country: Thomas Hill and New Madrid.
Last night, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a debt ceiling deal that would expedite the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline, despite significant public opposition to the project and serious concerns about its impact on clean water, climate, and communities along the route. The bill would also needlessly undermine parts of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a bedrock environmental law and cap funding for agencies that protect our air, water, and the climate.
The House of Representatives voted to advance the debt limit deal that will allow that nation to pay its bill in exchange for fossil fuel industry handouts and other harmful provisions that will hurt people and the environment. Despite long precedent for raising the debt ceiling with a clean bill, the deal was struck after weeks of Republicans threatening to default on America’s debts unless extreme provisions were included, like massive cuts in spending, gutting bedrock environmental laws, overturning popular provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, and more.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Today Rocky Mountain Power submitted its biennial Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) that foreshadows where the utility plans to get power for the next twenty years. Although the plan forecasts substantial and needed acquisition of new clean energy resources, Rocky Mountain Power stopped short of committing to the clean energy future the world’s leading scientists have made clear is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
St. Louis, MO -- In a harmful decision for communities in Missouri and across the country, last week the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals halted a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to disapprove Missouri’s inadequate plan to address smog pollution, threatening the implementation of a national plan to address cross-state air pollution.