WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Donald Trump later today is expected to sign an Executive Order creating an interagency council to coordinate the U.S.’s participation in the international One Trillion Trees Initiative. The Order follows repeated climate denial from the Trump administration and a proposal last month to open vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth rainforest in the Tongass National Forest to clearcut logging.
La Corte de Apelaciones del Noveno Circuito dictó anoche que el uso por parte de Donald Trump de poderes de emergencia para desviar $3.600 millones en fondos militares y construir su muro fronterizo es ilegal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin the hearing for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. In just the past week, three Republican Senators, including two on the Senate Judiciary Committee, tested positive for COVID-19 following Trump’s super-spreader event announcing Barrett’s nomination. Two additional members of the committee, including Chairman Lindsey Graham, are refusing to be tested for COVID-19. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed the full Senate’s return until October 19 but is allowing the Judiciary Committee to proceed with Barrett’s hearing. More than 210,000 Americans have died since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and a recent poll found that 74 percent of American voters want the Senate to prioritize COVID relief over confirming Trump’s Supreme Court pick.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last night ruled that President Trump’s use of emergency powers to divert $3.6 billion in military construction funds for the border wall is unlawful. The ruling came in a lawsuit, Sierra Club v. Trump, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition challenging President Trump’s abuse of emergency powers to build a border wall using funds Congress explicitly denied.
FERC granted MVP permission to resume construction, even though the beleaguered fracked gas project still lacks some necessary authorizations
El ex cabildero de la industria carbonera y administrador de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA), Andrew Wheeler, presentó un nuevo debilitamiento de las protecciones de la limpieza del agua
Duke Energy released a plan to further commit itself to fossil fuels
Advocates and concerned residents testified today before the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) to raise serious objections to the proposed rate increases filed by Madison Gas and Electric (MGE). MGE’s request proposes to perpetuate and expand regressive utility rates the Walker administration approved that undermine conservation, charge lower use customers higher bills, and pose a specific harm to low income customers. The Walker-era rates are among the worst of the worst nationally in setting the amount of every bill that is “fixed”--meaning customers cannot control their bill or reduce their charges by using less energy.
Denver, CO -- This morning, community leaders and elected officials met virtually to deliver a Letter of Principles to Xcel Energy regarding its upcoming Electric Resource Plan (ERP), a process for long-term energy planning. The letter is signed by over 4,000 Xcel ratepayers and Pueblo residents, as well as over 80 elected officials across Colorado who get their electricity from Xcel and want to see the state’s largest utility transition more quickly away from polluting coal and gas plants and toward clean energy.
Salt Lake City, UT -- Tonight, Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) answered questions in the lone Vice Presidential debate. Mike Pence was also on stage.
In response, Sierra Club Political Director Ariel Hayes released the following statement: