September 17, 2020
Today, the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) approved a siting certificate for the Ohio State University’s proposed gas plant.
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September 15, 2020
The Sierra Club and a coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s latest assault on critical safeguards against oil and gas pollution.
September 4, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued a new [Biological Opinion] for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The 303-mile project is stalled while awaiting necessary authorizations, including from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management.
August 31, 2020
Today, former coal lobbyist and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler finalized another rollback of key clean water protections, which had been put in place to prevent the vast majority of coal plants across the United States from dumping their toxic, industrial sludge into the drinking water sources of millions of Americans.
August 31, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against the Trump Administration’s efforts to skirt the law and give a pass to allow automakers to pollute more. Today’s ruling states that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) must apply the higher penalties issued under the Obama administration when automakers fail to meet the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
August 28, 2020
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas declined to require Kinder Morgan to stop construction of the Permian Highway fracked gas pipeline across 129 waterways, allowing for the destruction of hundreds of acres of habitat for endangered species.
August 27, 2020
Philadelphia, PA — The Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a weak air pollution rule today that would allow coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania to exceed pollution limits.
August 27, 2020
San Francisco, California-- Today, in a 5-0 vote, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) unanimously approved Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Charge Ready 2 program, a $436 million electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure program that will support deploying up to 38,000 new charging stations across Southern California over the next four years.
August 25, 2020
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Six groups filed a lawsuit Monday, August 24 in U.S. District Court charging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management with breaking the law by advancing a new management plan for Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve that would give the vast majority of the nation’s largest unit of public land to oil companies. This effort to expand fossil fuel exploitation in the western Arctic would increase harmful climate impacts, diminish public health, degrade land, water and air, and encroach on long-protected areas vital to wildlife and people.
August 24, 2020
ANCHORAGE (AK)— The Gwich’in Steering Committee and allied groups took Trump’s Secretary of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to court today for finalizing an illegal leasing program that would hand over the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the oil and gas industry.
August 19, 2020
This important settlement agreement will ensure ratepayer protection and move the Midwest one step closer to cleaner air.
August 19, 2020
DENVER— Climate groups sued the Trump administration today over its plan to expand drilling, fracking and mining across 1.7 million acres of public lands in southwestern Colorado, one of the fastest-warming regions in the nation.