Press Releases

June 27, 2024

Washington, DC - Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted to approve Venture Global’s gas export facility, CP2 LNG, despite clear evidence the facility will contribute to harm to the local community, climate, and nationwide energy price spikes and volatility.

June 27, 2024

Washington, D.C. – Today, the United States Supreme Court sided with polluting states and industry groups by pausing implementation of EPA’s strategy to address harmful air pollution that crosses state lines, called the Good Neighbor Plan.

June 26, 2024

BOSTON, MA. -- In a 38-2 vote, the Massachusetts Senate passed a strong climate bill Tuesday to help the state reach its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.  The bill, S.2829, aims to bolster Massachusetts’ clean energy transition through a series of reforms to the state’s energy system like requiring gas companies to submit reports to the Department of Public Utilities with decommissioning proposals and timelines for remedying leak-prone areas, plus changing the definition of gas company to allow networked geothermal.&nb

June 25, 2024

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June 25, 2024

HARTFORD, CT. – The Department of Administrative Services (DAS) released a Decarbonization Study exploring possible replacements for the Capitol Area System, a three-decade-old energy plant with a history of polluting Hartford’s air. The report follows years of advocacy by local environmental and climate justice groups to replace the facility with a 100 percent clean, renewable energy alternative.

June 24, 2024

On Friday, a group of Senate Republicans and Independents Manchin and Sinema introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution attempting to overturn a rule, released this spring by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which would guide federal decision making under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

June 24, 2024

TVA announced it would seek $250 million in grant funding through the Department of Energy’s of Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships program for the proposed line, marking a huge potential step forward for grid reliability, utility price stability and the future of clean energy.

June 21, 2024

Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced that CP2 LNG is on the agenda for its June meeting, in the midst of robust and ongoing frontline and national opposition to the gas export project. Evidence shows that expanded gas exports would be harmful to local communities, significantly contribute to dangerous climate change, and raise domestic energy prices nationwide.

June 21, 2024

BOSTON, MA. --On Thursday, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the Massachusetts Senate voted to pass Senate Bill 2830, the Plastics Reduction Act. In a 38-2 vote, Senators agreed to pass the bill guaranteed to protect the environment by limiting the usage of wasteful single-use plastics.

June 20, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last week, EPA announced a proposal to close loopholes in nearly 20 Clean Air Act regulations that allow industrial polluters – such as fossil fuel power plants, incinerators, chemical plants, and other industrial facilities –  around the country to dump deadly air pollution with impunity into surrounding communities.