NASHVILLE -- Yesterday, Tennessee House Republicans voted to expel Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two young Black men representing parts of Nashville and Memphis respectively, for joining their constituents to protest the state’s woefully inadequate gun safety legislation. An expulsion vote for Representative Gloria Johnson, a white woman representing part of Knoxville, did not pass.
Today, Ohio community and environmental groups filed a preliminary injunction to stop the leasing of Ohio state parks and other public lands to the oil and gas industry. On April 7, 2023, Ohio HB 507 will go into effect requiring the leasing of state parks for fracking, redefining methane gas as “green energy,” and a list of unrelated agricultural provisions.
Annapolis, Maryland — Today, environmental, business, and community groups celebrated the Maryland General Assembly’s passage of the Clean Trucks Act of 2023 (HB 230/SB 224) sponsored by Delegate Sara Love and President Pro Tem Malcolm Augustine. The bill requires the Maryland Department of Environment to adopt a regulation known as the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule by the end of this year.
EPA is taking action against harmful air pollution from chemical manufacturing facilities.
Advocacy groups deliver petition and letter to financial officers across the country
Plan would make NYC one of first pensions in US with concrete plans to reach net zero
Community members and advocacy groups came together for a press conference urging the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to finally perform required audits on the OVEC plants currently receiving a bailout under the corrupt HB6 law.
Today, the EPA proposed strengthening protections against heavy metals, mercury and other hazardous air pollution emitted from power plants, protecting vulnerable communities from some of the most dangerous types of air pollution.
ANCHORAGE, AK — Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic and five allied groups filed an appeal with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, along with a motion for an injunction pending appeal with the U.S. District Court today, to request a halt to gravel mining and road building on the ConocoPhillips Willow oil and gas project.