WASHINGTON, DC -- Late last night, it was reported that Senator Joe Manchin is abandoning the effort to make critical investments in climate action, clean energy, and environmental justice. At a time when families are facing rising energy costs and pain at the pump, a budget reconciliation package would put money back in the pockets of the workers who are most impacted by economic inequity and the costs of climate-fueled disasters.
ARIZONA â Today the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) heard from clean air advocates calling for strengthened pollution reduction measures to restore clean skies in Arizonaâs national parks like Grand Canyon, Saguaro, and Petrified Forest National Parks, and to protect vulnerable communities that often live in close proximity to polluting facilities that degrade air quality and exacerbate the climate crisis.
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In the report released today, Worth More Standing, the Climate Forests coalition details federal logging proposals targeting nearly a quarter of a million acres of old-growth and mature forests overseen by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. The report outlines âa pervasive pattern of federal forest mismanagement that routinely sidesteps science to turn carbon-storing giants into lumberâ and calls on the Biden administration to pass a permanent rule to protect these big old trees.
The Sierra Club submitted motions to intervene to the United Statesâ Department of Energy (DOE) protesting export authorizations for three separate fracked gas âLNGâ export terminals: Lake Charles LNG, New Fortress LNG, and Plaquemines LNG.
BOISE, ID â Idaho Power submitted its long-promised "Customer Generation Study" to the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (IPUC) just over a week ago, continuing its efforts to reduce rooftop solar accessibility and affordability for its customers.
Washington, D.C. â Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) addressing the implications of ConocoPhillipsâ Willow Project for Americaâs Western Arctic.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club filed an appeal today challenging a federal plan authorizing the killing of up to 72 grizzly bears to accommodate livestock grazing in Wyomingâs Bridger-Teton National Forest, near Yellowstone National Park.
Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, and supported by environmental justice advocates and community members from Northeast Texas, joined the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in New Orleans to present oral argument at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals defending EPA's final sulfur dioxide (SO2) nonattainment designation for the area around Martin Lake, a coal-burning power plant in Northeast Texas.
Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of Transportationâs Federal Highway Administration proposed a rule that will require state Departments of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organizations to establish performance measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from their transportation plans and programs.