New York — Today, environmental and climate justice groups picketed utility company National Grid’s ‘Equity in Energy’ summit in Brooklyn. Community members called on the utility to shut off the gas in phases 1-4 of the North Brooklyn pipeline and abandon its LNG expansion plan that will increase health problems for low-income Black and brown communities already facing disproportionate levels of pollution and to stop lobbying against New York’s landmark climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
The Race to Zero campaign’s new criteria are a major step forward, and makes clear that in order for the net-zero commitments at financial institutions to be credible, they must explicitly commit to phase out financing for new fossil fuels.
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) anunció hoy una dramática revisión de los límites en los niveles en el agua de cuatro venenos químicos llamados PFAS.
Duke’s carbon plan received failing grades in eight of 12 criteria, including setting an ambitious timeline for coal plant closure and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a dramatic revision to its drinking water limits for four toxic PFAS chemicals. The agency is lowering its lifetime health advisory levels for two PFAS chemicals - PFOS and PFOA - by more than 1000-fold to 20 and 4 parts per quadrillion, respectively. EPA is also setting new health advisories for two common PFAS chemicals that were invented as replacements - known as GenX and PFBS, to 10 and 2000 parts per trillion respectively.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House passed the Recovering America's Wildlife Act (RAWA) with a 231-190 vote. This historic bipartisan bill would invest nearly $1.4 billion for states, territories, and Tribes to amplify their work in recovering, conserving, and protecting at-risk wildlife and habitat.
In response, Bradley Williams, Associate Director of Legislative and Administrative Advocacy released the following statement:
Washington, DC – Today, the American Petroleum Institute (API) released a new 10-point plan laying out policy demands for expanded oil and gas production in response to current high fossil fuel prices and geopolitical instability.
In response, Sierra Club Senior Director of Energy Campaigns Kelly Sheehan released the following statement:
Ahead of Toyota’s Annual General Meeting, organizations call for NHTSA and EPA to investigate Hino, a subsidiary of Toyota, for emissions cheating in the US after cheating was found in Japanese trucks
Today, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved the license for SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy Vehicle, which would result in a large expansion of the launch facility’s operations in South Texas’ Boca Chica Beach, despite the Rio Grande Valley community and environmental advocates' consistent and vocal opposition to the destructive rocket project.
The Sierra Club and partners submitted comments into the Cumberland DEIS docket along with a commissioned Synapse report outlining a better path forward for TVA to replace retiring coal generation with renewable energy, battery storage, and energy efficiency commitments.