Today, Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY), Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) introduced the Fossil Free Finance Act, legislation to require the Federal Reserve to mandate banks and other Systemically Important Financial Institutions align their financing of greenhouse gas emissions with science-based emissions targets.
Today, Governor Pritzker signed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (SB2408) into law, marking one of the nation’s most groundbreaking advancements in climate justice and workforce transition.
WASHINGTON, DC - Early Wednesday morning, after a markup that lasted over 15 hours, House Democrats, led by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio, moved a historic package through committee.
The package makes significant investments in cleaning up the transportation sector, a sector responsible for emitting the most climate-disrupting emissions in the nation and contributing to dangerous air quality in communities.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Democrats, under the leadership of Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal, are delivering a historic package of clean energy tax incentives through committee today. It makes clean investments across multiple sectors of the economy and builds momentum for these essential policies to be included in any final reconciliation bill. In contrast to these important investments, however, House Democrats failed to cut billions in domestic subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
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Today, national and Pennsylvania-based environmental groups sent petitions urging the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) to adopt full-cost bonding for conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells.
Today, the Polk County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to pass a resolution committing to 90% greenhouse gas emission reductions from county operations by 2040.
(Oakland, California) – The founder of an organization that is helping the Catholic Church use its vast global land holdings to mitigate the climate crisis, a photographer who has captured images of more than 11,000 threatened species, and an attorney who has set important new legal precedents across Hawai'i and the nation are among those receiving awards from the Sierra Club this year.
Washington, D.C. - Today the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S House of Representatives began its mark-up of budget reconciliation language, which includes a Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), a fee on methane polluters, funding for electric vehicles, environmental justice block grants, building electrification and energy efficiency. The committee is expected to send the bill to the full House in the coming days.
WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday, House Democrats in the Ways and Means Committee unveiled plans for an array of clean energy tax incentives, including new incentives to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles in the US.
One incentive is a $7,500 point-of-sale consumer rebate, with an additional $4,500 for vehicles assembled by union workers and $500 for vehicles using batteries manufactured in the US. The package also includes a used EV tax credit.
ROME, GA -- Sierra Club’s analysis of Georgia Power’s preferred closure method for Plant Hammond Ash Pond-3 (AP-3) shows it does not adequately protect against groundwater contamination, risking the water supplies near the plant and downstream.