The US Forest Service issued notice for a Final Record of Decision today eliminating the Roadless Rule in the Tongass National Forest. The decision opens vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth temperate rainforest to clearcut logging, jeopardizing the subsistence culture of Indigenous communities, the forest’s role in fighting the climate crisis, and already imperiled wildlife.
DENVER— Climate groups filed new legal claims today challenging the federal government’s 1.7 million-acre resource-management plan (RMP) to expand fossil fuel development in southwestern Colorado, saying it should be overturned because it was approved during William Perry Pendley’s unlawful tenure directing the Bureau of Land Management (“Bureau”).
On Thursday, October 29 at 10:00 AM, the Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin will host an online event remembering the shoreline bluff collapse at We Energies’ coal-fired power plant in Oak Creek which released devastating pollution (coal ash, earth, trucks, and other debris) into Lake Michigan on Halloween 2011. We Energies was implicated in the catastrophe and additional environmental regulation violations were discovered during the response to the collapse. This Halloween will be the 9 year anniversary of the incident and the event will feature speakers who remember the collapse and will also talk about ongoing pollution from the plant that continues to impact neighbors and area residents today.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Over the weekend, the Huffington Post published a story on the newly-appointed deputy assistant secretary of fish, wildlife and parks at the Department of the Interior and connections to racist and white supremacist writings.
Washington, DC -- Following the conclusion of an illegitimate Supreme Court confirmation process last night, Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate without passing COVID-19 relief. House Democrats passed a relief package more than five months ago.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, just days before an election in which more than 61 million Americans have already cast their ballot, the Senate voted along party lines to confirm Donald Trump’s extreme Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. It has been over 150 years since the last Supreme Court nominee was confirmed without any bipartisan support and there has never been a Supreme Court justice confirmed this close to a presidential election.
Hoy, E&E News publicó los resultados de una investigación que reveló que dos de los principales miembros de la industria automotriz, General Motors (GM) y Ford Motors Company, han sabido que las emisiones de los automóviles contribuían al cambio climático desde principio de los años 60.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, E&E News published the findings of a monthslong investigation that found two major US automakers, General Motors (GM) and Ford Motor Company, knew emissions from automobiles contributed to climate change as early as the 1960s. In the decades to follow, they spread misinformation and lobbied nationally and globally against climate policies.
Today, the Trump administration announced the beginning of a 14-day comment period on a proposal to allow destructive seismic exploration on 450,000 acres of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Through lies and preposterous remarks, Donald Trump has proven time and again he simply does not understand what the American electorate wants (a 100% clean energy economy).