Yesterday, the fossil fuel company Air Products announced plans for a $4.5 billion “blue hydrogen” plant and accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) facility for Ascension Parish. Parish officials, Governor John Bel Edwards, and Air Products claim that hydrogen and CCS are climate solutions that will produce low-carbon fuel, but fail to acknowledge that blue hydrogen is derived from methane, which is 20 percent dirtier than burning gas or even coal, and methane is more than 80 percent more potent than carbon in warming our climate during the time it’s in the atmosphere.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A premature attempt to vote on the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure legislation in the House of Representatives did not happen, putting back on track President Biden’s bold Build Back Better agenda, including historic climate investments.
MEMO: Rushed vote on bipartisan bill set to fail over climate; Build Back Better Act is a must.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill is on the verge of being voted down in the short term due in significant part to its failure to tackle the climate crisis without a companion reconciliation bill. Once again, Capitol Hill is being forced to reckon with “No Climate, No Deal.”
As Congress Prepares to Move Forward with Reconciliation Bill, Nonprofits and Legislators in Arizona Urge Electric Sector Decarbonization Through a Clean Electricity Payment Program (CEPP)
A regional coalition of conservation groups commented on PacifiCorp’s 2021 Integrated Resource Plan that was filed today in the six states the utility serves, highlighting the plan’s failure to meet the recommendations of global scientists to transition away from all fossil fuels, as the utility intends to keep coal and gas generation in its resource mix well into the 2040s.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Whip Clyburn, and the entire Democratic leadership team in the House delivered victory by securing full Democratic support for a historic $3.5 trillion budget resolution. Passage of the resolution was a crucial first step toward delivering bold investments at the scale of the crises our communities face.
WASHINGTON, DC -- This afternoon, the House passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, a crucial step toward delivering bold investments at the scale of the crises our communities face. Sierra Club emphasizes that any vote on the bipartisan infrastructure proposal must be preceded by passage of the reconciliation bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nine House Democrats have threatened to halt progress on the most important climate legislation in U.S. history, and the only potential vehicle for major action on climate, care, jobs, and justice in near term view. This comes during the very same week when the IPCC warned that the extreme weather events we’re already experiencing -- including historic droughts and floods, superstorms, record-breaking wildfires, and unprecedented coastal flooding -- will continue to rapidly worsen unless the world cuts all carbon pollution in half by 2031.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Early this morning, the Senate passed a historic $3.5 trillion budget resolution with the potential to provide transformative investments in climate action as well as care, jobs, and justice priorities in the United States.
OUR PRIORITIES DETAILED BELOW:
ACHIEVE 100% CLEAN ENERGY
CLEAN ENERGY PAYMENT PROGRAM (CEPP)
CLEAN ENERGY TAX INCENTIVES
EXPAND ACCESS TO CLEAN PUBLIC TRANSIT, UNION-BUILT ELECTRIC VEHICLES, AND EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE
END FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES & CLEAN UP ABANDONED MINES AND WELLS
REPLACE 100% OF LEAD PIPES
RETROFIT AND ELECTRIFY ALL PUBLIC HOUSING, SCHOOLS, AND HOSPITALS
CREATE A CIVILIAN CLIMATE CORPS
ANALYSIS OF BIPARTISAN DEAL
WASHINGTON, DC -- On the heels of a blockbuster Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report detailing prospects for our world’s climate future, new details on a pending $3.5 trillion Senate budget resolution make clear that final passage of the package would be the most significant investment in tackling the climate crisis in U.S. history, putting the country on a path to meet President Biden’s climate action goals of 80% clean electricity and 50% economy-wide carbon emissions reductions by 2030, while delivering 40% of the climate investments to disadvantaged communities.
El Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (PICC) de la ONU emitió esta mañana sus conclusiones científicas en las que se basará su próximo gran reporte climático que se espera en 2022.